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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction by Lex Williford and Michael Martone

Fifty remarkable stories written by a wide spectrum of stylistically and culturally diverse authors

The Triangle by Nakisanze Segawa

<span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Kalinda is a page in Mwanga's palace. His life is centred on pleasing the Kabaka. The beauty of Mwanga's second wife, Nagawa, threatens his relationship with the Kabaka"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}">Kalinda is a page in Mwanga's palace. His life is centered on pleasing the Kabaka. The beauty of Mwanga's second wife, Nagawa, threatens his relationship with the Kabaka

Kizza Besigye and Uganda's Unfinished Revolution by Daniel K. Kalinaki

<span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"This book traces the life and career of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye and his contest with President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}">This book traces the life and career of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye and his contest with President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

Paradise Lost By John Milton

<span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":14915,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":3,"3":2},"9":0,"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":0},"15":"Arial","16":10}">Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton.

Farad by Emmanuel Iduma

<span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Touching biographies of ordinary citizens-young academics and ageing psychiatrists, Christian editors and call girls, strange women and music artistes-told in stylish, interrupted narratives, are woven into a detailed mosaic of modern Nigeria. "}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}">Touching biographies of ordinary citizens-young academics and aging psychiatrists, Christian editors and call girls, strange women, and music artistes-told in stylish interrupted narratives, are woven into a detailed mosaic of modern Nigeria.

Ariaal Pastoralists of Kenya by Elliot M. Fratkin

<span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The book gives readers a humurous and readable ethnographic representation of the Masaai speaking society of East Africa."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}">The book gives readers a humorous and readable ethnographic representation of the Masaai speaking society of East Africa.

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

In this book, Rodney makes the unflinching case that African poverty is not a natural feature of geography or a consequence of culture, but a direct product of imperial extraction from the continent, a practice that continues into the present

Paradise By Toni Morrison

<span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":14851,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":3,"3":2},"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":0},"15":"Arial","16":10}">Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory, and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever-present.

Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono

<span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The book is written in the form of a diary kept by the Cameroonian houseboy Toundi, an innocent, fascinated and awed by the white world, the world of his masters"}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":513,"3":{"1":0},"12":0}">The book is written in the form of a diary kept by the Cameroonian houseboy Toundi, an innocent, fascinated, and awed by the white world, the world of his masters

See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolution by Valerie Kaur

How do we love in a time of turmoil? How do we labor for the world we want when the labor feels endless?

African Affairs By Lindsay Whitfield, Peace A. Medie and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (ed.)

<span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"African Affairs is published on behalf of the Royal African Society. It is an interdisciplinary journal, with a focus on the politics and international relations of sub-Saharan Africa."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":14851,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":3,"3":2},"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":0},"15":"Arial","16":10}">African Affairs is published on behalf of the Royal African Society. It is an interdisciplinary journal, with a focus on the politics and international relations of sub-Saharan Africa.

Plagues And Peoples By William H. McNeil

<span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The book offers a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":14851,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":3,"3":2},"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":0},"15":"Arial","16":10}">The book offers a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures.