African history

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

‘One of the greatest writers of our time.’ Toni Morrison

‘You Don’t Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston … her words make it impossible for readers to consider her anything but one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century.’ The New York Times Book Review

Africana

‘It is a glorious book: an education and an invitation. There is such life in its pages, and such food!’ Nigella Lawson

A culinary expedition celebrating cooking from across the African continent

A Woman of Firsts

‘The Muslim Mother Teresa’ Huffington Post

Winner of the 2023 Templeton Prize

Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution.

Edna Adan Ismail endured it all – for the women of Africa.

For The People

A small town’s struggle for freedom against apartheid

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