Out Of A Sidelined, Colonial-era Expedition In Africa Comes A New Story Of Cruelty, Deception And Adventure From The Acclaimed Author Of The Lost Pianos Of Siberia. In 1879, King Leopold Ii Of Belgium Launched An Ambitious Plan To Plunder Africa's...

Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionThis “elegant” and “unfailingly empathetic” narrative (The New York Times) follows three ordinary South Africans living through the most extraordinary reckoning with race and power any modern...

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates...

An original, authoritative, and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day.Islam Issa’s father had always told him about their city's magnificence, and as he looked at the new library in Alexandria it...

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to...

Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to the decolonisation were faced with an impossible dilemma. How could they redefine their culture, and the ‘humanity’ they felt had been denied by the colonial project, in terms that did not replicate the...

Longlisted • National Book Award (Nonfiction) Combining trenchant philosophy with lyrical memoir, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of Blackness.Why does race seem to color almost every feature of our moral and political universe? Why does a...