Non-fiction

  In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of ...

This is a book of failure and mistakes; it begins with what is stolen from us and proposes only an invitation to imag...

Humanity has always excluded Others on the basis of race and gender. What happens to people who choose to flee, follo...

bell hooks (1952-2021) remarks in the introduction to the book that well-known books about love have been written by ...

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of ...

The most accurate one word description of this memoir is the title. Sexual abuse, generational trauma, poverty, racis...

Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin brought together interviews, poems, essays, playlists, reflections and even a comic i...

In The Spirit of Intimacy, Somi distills the ancient teachings and wisdom of her native village to give insight into ...

Deeping It shines a critical light on UK drill and its fraught relationship with the British legal system. Intervenin...

“I have been in the world, but not of it,” begins this searing and passionate book by legendary scholar W.E.B. Du Boi...

This book interrogates the Dutch involvement in the transatlantic trafficking of African people and their subsequent ...

Written in the 50s, Fanon's seminal work has become more and more popular in this century. A philosopher and a psychi...

This book by artist, writer and scholar Grada Kilomba is truly a gem of decolonial theory. In a very accesible manner...

In Afropean, Johny Pitts kept raving about his 'predecessor' in Afropean travel-writing Caryl Phillips so I was curio...

In 1619 the first transatlantic slaveship 'White Lion' arrived in the American colonies. You won't find this date in ...

Balancing between scholarship and poetic imagination, Wayward Lives looks at the first generation of black woman born...

Gordon is a philosopher who in his latest book combines philosophical insights into Black consciousness with cultural...

Writer Johny Pitts left his familiar UK home to explore Black Europe for 5 months and find out what it means to be Af...

Maboula Soumahoro is one of this year's guest curators of Read My World festival. The festival takes place from 11-13...

A legendary transgender elder and activist reflects on a lifetime of struggle and the future of black, queer, and tr...

When conventional language does not equip us with the tools to speak about ourselves, we create our own. Slang expres...

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member...

From the founder and creator of The Nap Ministry, Rest Is Resistance is a battle cry, a guidebook, a map for a moveme...

In this classic study, cultural critic bell hooks examines how black women, from the seventeenth century to the prese...

This book brings together activists, artists and scholars of colour to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are b...

One of America’s most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James...

In this groundbreaking 1993 work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as ...

Published almost ten years after Black Skin White Masks, The Wretched of the Earth explores the fate of all colonised...

An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab writers, this collection of essays does something that queer people of Arab descent often...

Raise your hand if you failed high school physics.... No worries, this book will get you up to speed in no time. Chan...

In Memory of the Present is a colourful work of art in which Sophie Douala tells 10 stories and memories of friends a...

Hiphop journalist and trap feminist ‘Bad Fat Black Girl’ Sesali Bowen is a whirlwind to take note of. Her book is mem...

Katherine McKittrick brings in this book many theories and methodologies of black and anticolonial studies together. ...

Afrobeats is a fast-growing genre, one that has carved out a distinct and powerful Black identity rooted within the A...

Beatriz Nascimento (1942–1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil’s Black movement, an inn...

A New Formation is an inventive and highly original analysis of the contributions that Black British footballers have...