Non-fiction

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

What is the relationship between poetry and social change? Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 19...

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 ...

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

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

Powerful essay collection by the great Audre Lorde. I usually don't mention the cover art but in this case I have to ...

Essayist and novelist Panashe Chigumadzi embarks on a journey to find out more about Zimbabwe and her family after th...

Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st century is an extensive analysis and critique of Black radical...

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

Aftershocks is a memoir like no other. Nadia Owusu details her life moving around half the world, death and loss of p...

Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays o...

Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive ...

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

All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for...

He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others. Electrifying es...

'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in hi...

Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it...

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah spent decades talking openly and intimately to African women around the world about sex. The bo...

In letters addressed to their friends, to members of their family – both biological and chosen – and to fellow storyt...

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