Laurens van der Post (Raymond Mortimer Sunday Times rank Laurens van der Post with the best writers of English this book confirms my constant admiration and the nobility of his...

VS Naipaul A fictional history of colonialism presents stories whose protagonists range from the disgraced Sir Walter Raleigh to the foppish nineteenth-century revolutionary Francisco Miranda. January 1, 1995 by MINERVA...

Moses Isegawa Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude , Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles tells a riveting story of twentieth-century Africa that is...

John Miller Chernoff "We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."—Andrew Tracey, African Music"John Miller Chernoff, who spent 10 years studying...

Joan R Sherman Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen....

Abdulrazak Gurnah While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own...

Patricia J Williams Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. The Alchemy of Race and Rights...

Doris Lessing In this illuminating, moving memoir Doris Lessing, the Nobel laureate, gives us a tale of two halves, of fiction and memory. She revisits her parents' lives as they...

Philip Carter TELL NO ONE Siberia 1939. Lena Orlova plans a daring escape from a grim Soviet gulag to the one place in Russia's icy wilderness she knows is safe:...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success,...

William Boyd Primarily a gripping story of the men and women swept up by the passions of love and battle, William Boyd's magnificently entertaining novel also elicits the cruel futility...

Chigozie ObiomaA contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by the chi, or spirit of a young poultry farmer named Chinonso. His life is set off...