Non-fiction

The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one ha...

Across the Anglophone Caribbean, the great expectations of independence were never met. From Black Power and Jamaica...

Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy. This is the litt...

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

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...

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...

Written from both historical and cultural perspectives, Salvation takes an incisive look at the transformative power ...

A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge ...

Combining precise philosophy with a torrent of memories, Wilderson presents the tenets of an increasingly prominent i...

In this unique and provocative book, Zairean philosopher and writer V. Y. Mudimbe addresses the multiple scholarly di...

In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of ...

Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human  difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice o...

This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and...

A Dying Colonialism is Fanon’s incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people o...

The marginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world. But Black Studies, where it ...

Paperback | 234 pages | ISBN 9780822363439

Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which enslaved peop...

Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey, Claude McKay, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael—the roster of immigr...

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and...

The Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long be...

At its rhythmic, beating heart, Close to the Edge asks whether hip hop can change the world. Hip hop—rapping, beat-ma...

A fresh and creative approach to the history of Pan-Africanism and diasporic movements. This collection of original ...

Studying Ghana, Guyana and Grenada to discover the problems affecting democracy in the African diaspora. One of Ameri...

From the front lines of hip hop culture and music in the USA, Britain, France, Japan, Germany, Hawaii, Tanzania, Cuba...

This LGBTQ+-dictionary is one of the funniest and educating books I've encountered recently. The colourful illustrate...

Hovering between memoir, history and feminist thought, this essay collection by the renowned Zimbabwean author of the...

The first bilingual edition of this radically original work Aimé Césaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the N...

Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers. A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930...

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) described herself as ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. Her extraordinary belief in the...

A theory of Black gay life, Allen looks at the gay scene in the 1980s and describes how that period is still influent...

Urgent collection of short essays on racial injustice and opression.   Paperback | 64 pages | ISBN 9780241339725

Before you get this book, just look up Jill's Instagram and watch one of the 1-minute clips. It'll give you an idea o...

In black and golden covering You Don't Know Us Negroes is a newly edited collection of essays by Harlem Renaissance l...