Item 893Five Hundred African Voices
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Press, 2022. Softcover, quarto, in illustrated wraps, 513 pp.
Africana
Item 1526The Cradle of Erotica
New York: The Julian Press, 1963. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. Fourth printing. Hardcover, [octavo] with red cloth boards and gilt lettering and red end papers in glossy illustrated price-clipped dust jacket, 362 pp.
Item 618In the Ngombe Tradition
Northwestern University African Studies Series No. 7. Hardcover octavo, quarter bound black cloth spine with gilt lettering and peach cloth boards in glossy pictorial jacket, 167 pp.
Item 508Captured by Raiders
Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1969. Staplebound 16mo, pictorial glossy wraps, 89 pp. Scarce first staplebound edition, printed on letterpress by afropress in Nairobi and published on the prolific East African Publishing House. Recently reprinted.
Item 510Kenya Women Look Ahead
Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, 1965. First Edition. Staplebound 16mo, pictorial glossy wraps, 71 pp. Scarce pamphlet examining the changing role of women in Kenyan society and government.
Item 415Morning Yet On Creation Day: Essays
Garden City, New York: Anchor Press / Double Day, 1975. First American Edition. 8vo, quarter bound with blind stamped white paper boards and gold lettering on black spine in pictorial jacket, 175 pp.
Item 367Pan-Africanism
London, England & Dunmow, England: Pall Mall Press, 1962. Hardcover 8vo charcoal boards with white lettering in an illustrated jacket, 296 pp. Gift inscription on front free end paper: "For Wayne Fredericks with all good wishes Carl Legum London March 1962". [J.] Wayne Fredericks was a career diplomat, notably the.....
Item 719Afrika My Music
Johannesburg: Ravan Press (Pty) Ltd, 1984. Cover painting by Eli Kyeyune; cover design by The Graphic Equalizer. Softcover in glossy illustrated wraps, 260 pp.
Item 702Blacks in Antiquity
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971. Third printing. Softcover octavo, illustrated wraps, [xxii] 364 pp.
Item 712Derrida and Africa
London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Cover image by Leonid Andronov. Hardcover octavo in glossy pictorial boards, no dust jacket, 102 pp.
Item 359Wall-Paintings by Snakecharmers in Tanganyika
New York City, NY: Grove Press, 1953. Jacket Design by Roy Kuhlman. First Edition. Hardcover 4to with orange cloth boards and gilt spine lettering in an illustrated dust jacket, 99 pp. Published a year before Julius Nyere's anti-colonial imperative to liberate Tanganyika as a sovereign land in the formation of.....
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Item 991The Ashanti War of 1873-74 [in two volumes]
London: Frank Cass & Co., 1968. Volume 1: Hardcover with red cloth boards with black and gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 8vo, 428 pp. Volume 2: Hardcover with red cloth boards with black and gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 8vo, 367 pp. 1968 reprint of Henry Brackenbury's 1874 first hand.....
Item 723Affirmations
Chicago: Third World Press, 1971. First edition first printing. Softcover saddle-stappled in glossy wraps, 24 pp. Menkiti's first collection of poetry published by Haki R. Madhubuti's Third World Press in 1971 in Chicago. Inscribed on half-title page at top right corner.
Item 619The Majangir
New York City, NY & London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Hardcover octavo red cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 200 pp.
Item 995Some Account of the Trade in Slaves from Africa as Connected with Europe and America
London: Frank Cass & Co., 1968. Hardcover, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 323 pp.
Item 653Congo Kitabu
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965. 8vo, black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine, 404 pp. With editorial collaboration of Alex Pelle.
Item 826The Northern Bantu
London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1966. Jacket design by Derek Ward. Hardcover, 8.75", green cloth boards with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket, 305 pp.
Item 1273The Customary Laws of the Dinka People of Sudan
London: Afroworld, 1988. First edition. Hardcover brown cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", 287 pp.
Item 753This Earth, My Brother...
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1971. Jacket by Brad Olsen; author photo by Willis Bell. First edtion. Hardcover octavo slate cloth boards with black lettering in illustrated dust jacket, 232 pp.
Item 1015Secret Lives
New York: Lawrence Hill & Company, 1975. First edition. Hardcover, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 144 pp. Following A Meeting in the Dark in 1974, Secret Lives is Ngugi's second of three published short story collections, published in 1975. Inscribed to poet and literary.....
Item 812Not Yet Uhuru
London: Heinemann, 1967. First UK edition. Hardcover, octavo, black cloth boards with orange lettering in pictorial dust jacket, decorative cartographic end papers 323 pp. Part of Kenya's first democratically-elected political cabinet, serving as Vice-President to Jomo Kenyatta's Presidency from 1964 to 1966. Not Yet Uhuru is Oginga's story from his.....
Item 357Shehu Shagari
Lagos, Nigeria: Tokion (Nigeria) Company, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover 8vo, in marbled dark green boards with gilt lettering on spine, in a pictorial dust jacket, 629 pp. Biography of Nigeria's first democratically-elected President, Shehu Shagari. Entering the Nigerian political arena by way of being elected to Secretary of an educational.....
Item 656Cattle and Kinship Among the Gogo
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1969. First Edition. 8vo, green cloth boards with black lettering on spine, 355 pp.
Item 766Africana Critical Theory
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010. First paperback edition. Softcover, quarto, in glossy illustrated wraps, 431 pp.
Item 511Mzee Nyachote
Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1967. Illustrations by Adrienne Moore. First Edition. Staplebound 16mo, pictorial glossy wraps, 56 pp. East African Readers Library no. 6. The colloquial retellings of the respected elder Mzee Nyachote to a group of children of his youthful impish escapades, and how he grew into his.....