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What Is Africa to Me? Fragments of a True-to-Life Autobiography
ISBN: HB: 9780857423764, Seagull Books, August 2017
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Maryse Conde is one of the best-known and most beloved French Caribbean literary voices. The author of more than twenty novels, she was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 and has long been recognized as a giant of black femini...
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£20,50
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That Which Is Not Drawn William Kentridge and Rosalind C. Morris in Conversation
ISBN: PB: 9780857424457, ISBN: HB: 9780857421753, Seagull Books, February 2017
304 pp., 19.5x14 cm
For more than three decades, artist William Kentridge has explored in his work the nature of subjectivity, the possibilities of revolution, the Enlightenment's legacy in Africa, and the nature of time itself. At the same time, his creative work has s...
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£16,99
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£26,50
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Rachel's Blue
ISBN: HB: 9780857423320, Seagull Books, March 2016
296 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Novelist Zakes Mda has made a name for himself as a key chronicler of the new, post-apartheid South Africa, casting a satirical eye on its claims of political unity, its rising black middle class, and other aspects of its complicated, multiracial soc...
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£20,50
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Secure the Base Making Africa Visible in the Globe
ISBN: HB: 9780857423139, Seagull Books, December 2015
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For more than sixty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been writing fearlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work, which has included plays, novels, and essays, Ngugi narrat...
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£19,00
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Eye of the Needle Towards Participatory Democracy in South Africa
ISBN: HB: 9780857422378, Seagull Books, May 2015
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Described by Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure in the white South African student movement and key in its radicalization. Turner acquired his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was inspired by th...
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£16,00
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Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper
ISBN: HB: 9780857422385, Seagull Books, April 2015
96 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm
Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes "The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper" all the more seductive. In his first collection...
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£16,00
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Accounts and Drawings from Underground The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book, 1906
ISBN: HB: 9780857422057, Seagull Books, February 2015
196 pp., 27.9x20.8 cm, 61 colour plates
Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a worldwide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his series of ten animated films created from charcoal drawings. In "Accounts and Drawings from Underground", Kentridge and Rosali...
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£75,00
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Soho Chronicles 10 Films by William Kentridge
ISBN: HB: 9780857421760, Seagull Books, February 2015
438 pp., 22x22 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a worldwide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his series of ten animated films created from charcoal drawings. The films introduced a significant character in contemporary fict...
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£112,50
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Black Diamond
ISBN: HB: 9780857422224, Seagull Books, December 2014
312 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In this novel by celebrated South African writer Zakes Mda, Kristin Uys, a tough magistrate who lives alone with her cat in the Roodepoort district of Johannesburg, goes on a one-woman crusade to wipe out prostitution in her town. Her reasons are per...
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£20,50
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Conditional Tense After the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
ISBN: HB: 9780857421746, Seagull Books, December 2013
264 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm, 18 colour plates
When apartheid ended in 1994, a radiant optimism suggested a bright future for the new, unified South Africa. But today, even in the midst of a vibrant economy, the cumulative effect of the country's corrosive past – three hundred years of colonialis...
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£22,50
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