Non-fiction

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

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...

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

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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. ...

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

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

Who are you, when you come from two places? Ennatu Domingo was adopted from Ethiopia at the age of seven and transpla...

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture ...

Told from the perspective of some of the finest contemporary Black male writers and thinkers, MANDEM is an ode to th...

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 ...

In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition...

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

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...