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  • No Sweetness Here

    And Other Stories

    by Ama Ata Aidoo, Ketu H. Katrak ...
    From the author of Changes: these stories "of post-independence Ghana in the late 1960s are written beautifully and wisely and with great subtlety" (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi).In this short story collection, the award-winning poet and author of Changes and Our Sister Killjoy explores postcolonial life in Ghana with her characteristic honesty, humor, and insight. A house servant wonders what ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Sister Killjoy (Faber Editions)

    'A treasure.' Tsitsi Dangarembga

    by Ama Ata Aidoo ...
    Join a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe's heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic.'A wondrous discovery.' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'A treasure: one of the works that inspired my own literary journey.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'Aidoo has reaffirmed my faith in the power of the written word.' Alice Walker'Modest, lyrical, reflective and intelligent .. De... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • No Sweetness Here

    by Ama Ata Aidoo ...
    This collection of short stories sees Ama Ata Aidoo, one of Africa's leading feminist and postcolonial writers, exercise the powerful effect of oral storytelling in her moving tales of shifting identities and the paradoxes of womanhood.Written with vibrant candour and tenacity, No Sweetness Here tackles the challenges of postcolonial Ghana, with topics ranging from the politics of wigs to the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora

    by H.W. Fairman, Duro Ladipo, Tekle Hawariat, Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu, Wole Soyinka, Ama Ata Aidoo, Athol Fugard, Derek Walcott, Michael Gilkes, a Yoruba Masquerade ...
    Translated by May-Brit Akerholt ...
    Series series Global Theatre Anthologies
    The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. This volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series presents a reconstructed ancient performance text, four one-act indigenous African plays and five modern dramas from various regions of Africa and the Caribbean Diaspora.Because these plays span centuries and are the work ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • After the Ceremonies

    New and Selected Poems

    by Ama Ata Aidoo ...
    Series series African Poetry Book
    Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues. After the Ceremonies is arranged in three parts: new and uncollected poems, some of which Aidoo calls “misplaced or downright lost”; ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • A Child's Christmas in Wales

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    Olive trees around my table is the warm-hearted and, at times, heart-breaking story of Cecile Yazbek; a Lebanese girl growing up in the fifties and sixties under the shadow of the new apartheid system in South Africa.Cecile paints a colourful portrait of her first generation South African Lebanese family: its faults, idiosyncrasies, shameful secrets and strengths. A family aware of the injustices ... Read more

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  • Al-Manhal

    English-Arabic Idioms

    by A R Al-Khanchi ...
    AL-Manhal is a fairly comprehensive dictionary of English idioms and sayings explained in English and Arabic, and supported by example sentences which are quotes taken from various sources like books, newspapers, etc.AL-Manhal is a fairly comprehensive dictionary of English idioms and sayings explained in English and Arabic, and supported by example sentences which are quotes taken from various ... Read more

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  • Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

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    Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls ... Read more

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  • Shooting An Elephant

    An Essay

    by George Orwell ...
    The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma. Because the locals expect him to do the job, he does so against his better judgment, his anguish increased by the elephant's slow and painful death. After all, as he writes, he kills the animal 'solely to avoid looking a fool' ... Read more

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