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  • Central African Folktales

    by J.K. Jackson ...
    Series series The World's Greatest Myths and Legends
    From the beating heart of Central Africa comes a collection to join East African, West African and Southern African FolktalesFeaturing stories such as The Prince Who Insisted on Possessing the Moon, How the Squirrel outwitted the Elephant, and The Water-Fairies save a Child, tales from Central Africa share many aspects of the same themes across the continent because ancient ethnic groups expanded ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Postcolonial Disillusionment and Migration in African Literature

    Edited by Oyewumi Olatoye Agunbiade, Sone Mirabeau Enongene ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Literature
    This book investigates the many ways in which African literature has engaged with themes of migration and postcolonial disillusionment.The book argues that disillusionment amongst African migrants facing discrimination abroad has become a microcosm for postcolonial disillusionment at home. Drawing on literature and film from across the four regions of Africa, this book considers the intersection ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Libertine Of Quality

    by Count De Mirabeau ...
    The Libertine of Quality, or My Conversion takes the form of the memoirs of a young man who decides to hire himself out for stud to wealthy older women. Described by Mirabeau himself as “utterly mad” and “a very comical book,” it succeeds both as erotica and as a scathing satirical attack on the decadence of French society immediately before the Revolution. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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    Taking African Agency Seriously

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  • Connecting Africa and Asia

    Afrasia as a Benign Community

    by Yoichi Mine ...
    Series series New Regionalisms Series
    By 2100, more than 80 per cent of the world’s population is expected to live in Afrasia (Africa and Asia). This book draws lessons from history, provides a new cognitive map of the world, and discusses multiple challenges global citizens will face in the age of Afrasia, an emerging macro-region.The centre of gravity of the world is shifting. Whether the world can manage a soft landing into ... Read more

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  • The World-System and Africa

    by Immanuel Wallerstein ...
    In The World-System and Africa, Immanuel Wallerstein examines three important, interconnected themes that link Africa and the capitalist world-system of the last 500 years. While drawing attention to the structural crisis of the modern world-system, Wallerstein uses the first set of essays to explore the impact of this worldwide structural crisis on Africa. Next, he turns to identity politics, a ... Read more

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  • Justine Or Good Conduct Well Chastised (Mobi Classics)

    by Marquis de Sade ...
    Justine (or The Misfortunes of Virtue) is a classic erotic novel by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade.Justine is set just before the French Revolution in France and tells the story of a young woman who goes under the name of Therese. Her story is recounted to Madame de Lorsagne while defending herself for her crimes, en route to punishment and death. She ... Read more

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    No other book dares go as far! The long-lost sequel made available for the first time in decades! ... Read more

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  • Amorous Exploits Of A Young Rakehell

    by Guillaume Apollinaire ...
    Guillaume Apollinaire's account of a 15-year-old budding libertine's summer on the farm, where he congresses with maids, servants, passersby, an aunt and finally a sister, while outside the manor peasants go for creatures of the four-legged variety, is a classic unparalleled in its content, brevity and wit. ... Read more

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  • Africa

    The Politics of Suffering and Smiling

    by Patrick Chabal ...
    Series series World Political Theories
    The question usually asked about Africa is: 'why is it going wrong?' Is the continent still suffering from the ravages of colonialism? Or is it the victim of postcolonial economic exploitation, poor governance and lack of aid? Whatever the answer, increasingly the result is poverty and violence.In Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling Patrick Chabal approaches this question differently by ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Epistemic Freedom in Africa

    Deprovincialization and Decolonization

    by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to some human beings meant that in turn their knowledges and experiences lost their value, their epistemic virtue. Now, in the twenty-first century, descendants of enslaved, displaced ... Read more

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