African Fiction
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
In his debut novel, Chinua Achebe challenges our written perspective of history and portrays the devastating influence of colonization in late 19th century Nigeria. Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political and religious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. The story follows Okonkwo, a man known for his fierce heart and physical strength, as he navigates his personal demons and his...
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Anthills Of the Savannah
by Chinua Achebe
Anthills of the Savannah is a 1987 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. A finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize for Fiction, it has been described as the "most important novel to come out of Africa in the [1980s]."
African Fiction Books & Ephemera
Things Fall Apart
by Achebe, Chinua
New York: Penguin, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Achebe's classic novel of colonization in 19th century Nigeria. Named to Time's list of 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
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A$20.16
Things Fall Apart
by Achebe, Chinua
Fawcett, 1969-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. 6x4x0. Light water damage and resulting ripple to pages. Fair. Moderate shelf wear to covers/corners; satisfaction guaranteed. Mass market paperback binding.
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A$30.93
SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT
by OKRI, Ben
New York: Doubleday, 1993. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Very good/No Jacket. American Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. Very Good - back of cover slightly bumped at bottom of spine. LIT.
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A$31.01
We need New Names by Bulawayo, N
ISBN 9780099581888
Publisher: Vintage 2014
294 pages
Soft cover
Ten-year-old Darling has a choice: it's down, or out 'To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in - who wants to be a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart?' Darling and her friends live in a shanty... Read more about this item
Publisher: Vintage 2014
294 pages
Soft cover
Ten-year-old Darling has a choice: it's down, or out 'To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in - who wants to be a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart?' Darling and her friends live in a shanty... Read more about this item
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A$19.37
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
by Tutuola, Amos
New York, NY: Paperback. Good. 1953. 1st Edition (Unstated); Fourteenth Printing. Paperback. 0394172353 . Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Yellowing (heavy) to pages. Foxing to the exterior edge of pages only. Dog-earing to a few pages. Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; 130 pages .
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A$30.99
THINGS FALL APART
by Chinua Achebe
New York: Anchor Books. 1994. 50th Anniversary Edition; Sixty-Eighth Printing. Softcover. Very Good+ in wraps. .
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A$100.70
Things Fall Apart
by Achebe, Chinua
Doubleday Can Titles, 2009. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$12.47
Albino
by Cope, Jack (1913-)
London : Heinemann, 1964. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: South Africa - Fiction.
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A$24.09
BATOUALA
by MARAN, Rene (Miguel COVARRUBIAS)
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Hardcover. Minor defects to the leather. About Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Miguel Covarrubias. Small folio (8-1/2" x 13") bound in full blind-stamped brown leather. Copy #743 of 1500 with beautiful line drawings and color illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. The first great novel about Africa by a black writer. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, one of France's highest literary awards, making Maran the first black...
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A$775.25
SARIE.
by Bohmke, Heinrich
Martial 2016. 1st edition.. New Mint copy.. 242pp paperback. "A murderous cocktail of sex, greed, and post-modern South African racial psychosis" (Riaan Malan). Unique among modern novels this sees the protagonist enter into Fables Bookshop, Grahamstown, and purchase a book! Magical realism in action!
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A$29.10
AN ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN WRITING IN ENGLISH.
by Figueroa, John J. (Ed)
Heinemann/The Open University. London 1982.. No inscription. VG condition.. 297pp paperback. Two thirds of the book is made up of prose fiction and the remaining third of poetry drawn from Africa and the Caribbean. Authors include Chinua Achebe and Derek Walcott, as well as new outstanding poets like Honor Ford Smith of Jamaica.
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A$29.10
Xhosa Poets And Poetry by Jeff Opland
ISBN: 0864864205
David Philip publishers, 1998
Soft Cover, 365 pages
Xhosa oral poetry has defied the threats to its integrity over two centuries, to take its place in a free South Africa. This volume establishes the background to this poetic re-emergence, preserving and transmitting the voice of the Xhosa poet.
David Philip publishers, 1998
Soft Cover, 365 pages
Xhosa oral poetry has defied the threats to its integrity over two centuries, to take its place in a free South Africa. This volume establishes the background to this poetic re-emergence, preserving and transmitting the voice of the Xhosa poet.
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A$17.75
Albino
by Cope, Jack
Heinemann, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Poor. jacket is worn, torn and chipped. edge wear and knocking on boards. thorough tanning, soiling and marks. both book and jacket are damp marked and a bit scarred. fair copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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A$10.85
THE DARK WOOD.
by Wilhelm, Peter
Ravan. Johannesburg 1977 stated 1st edition.. G+ condition.. Printed wraps. 161pp 8vo. Inscribed half-title thus: "To Chris Mann - December 1977 - Peter Wilhelm". Author's first novel.
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A$29.10
BATOUALA
by MARAN, Rene (Miguel COVARRUBIAS)
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Hardcover. Slight rubbing to the spine and corners with a small strip of leather peeled off on the rear cover. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase specially made for this copy by the publisher. Miguel Covarrubias. Small folio (8-1/2" x 13") bound in full blind-stamped brown leather. Illustrated with beautiful line drawings and full-page color plates by Miguel Covarrubias. The first great novel about Africa by a black writer. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, one of France's...
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A$823.78
THWALA.
by Clayton, Eve
Self 2017. 1st edition.. New Mint copy.. 321pp paperback. Signed by Author. A love story across the divide of age and colour between an older white farmer and a beautiful young Xhosa girl. Follow the lives of Nosuthu Stokwe and Andrew Christy from the awe-inspiring rural South African countryside to the urban sprawl of Kayelitsha and the metropolis of Cape Town to try and appreciate the complexity of the challenges faced by South African people today. Set in the last days of Apartheid this novel bears...
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A$29.10
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 2008. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$9.38
Things Fall Apart
by Achebe, Chinua
Anchor Books, 1994. Trade Paperback. Very Good.
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A$9.30
Things Fall Apart (Penguin Red Classics)
by Achebe, Chinua
Penguin Books, 2007. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$9.29
STILL THE SIRENS.
by Brutus, Dennis
Santa Fe, New Mexico:: Pennywhistle Press,, 1993.. SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in glossy white wrappers (slight abrasion on the title page.). First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. A Pennywhistle chapbooks. A colllection of poems, many political and very moving, by this writer and activist who has been called the 'singing voice of the South African Liberation Movement.' With an Introduction by Lamont B. Steptoe. INSCRIBED on the title page, and dated in the year of...
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A$61.24
THINGS FALL APART
by CHINUA ACHEBE
HEINEMANN, LONDON, 1962 SECOND PRINTING. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL PRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE & FRONTIS PRESENT, SEVERAL FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 X 5 INCHES WITH 185 PAGES. SOME LIGHT RUBBING TO EDGES OF JACKET WITH A FEW MINOR CHIPS & A COUPLE OF MINOR CREASES TO EDGES OF JACKET, NICE CONTEMPORARY INSCRIPTION TO FRONT ENDPAPER FROM A HUSBAND TO HIS WIFE FROM IBADAN, NIGERIA & DATED 1962, PAGE FORE-EDGES ARE FOXED. OVERALL...
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A$1,212.50
