by Lloyd McCarthy
"As black people around the world continue to search for "liberation blueprints" perhaps the work of Lloyd McCarthy might prove to be a guidebook. By looking at the intellectual development of Claude McKay and Michael Manley he mines the Afro-Jamaican traditions for its gold. Here is work that restores the importance of looking to the common man for leadership and moral direction. Poets and politicians can meet on the same road and at times, talk the talk. New World Africans need to listen."

-E. Ethelbert Miller, Director, African American Resource Center, Howard University

by Ghirmai Negash
In this richly researched and lucidly written collection of essays, ‘The Freedom of the Writer’ and Other Selected Literary and Cultural Essays, Ghirmai Negash provides solid analysis and information on some of the salient aspects of Eritrean literature and culture.

by Nimi Wariboko
Bringing to light hidden truths that have escaped many fine scholars and laymen alike for generations, the author explains very difficult topics in a very easy-to-follow format. The author also engages the reader in every answer, raising curiosity and igniting interest in Bible study. He deftly presents the Bible as a word-and-idea puzzle, which is fun to play with and share with believers and non-believers.

Translated by Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith
Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith’s Efúnsetán Aníwúrà, Ìyálóde Ibadan and Olú Æmæ (Tinuúbu), Ìyálóde Ëgbá, is an annotated English translation of Akínwùmí Ìsölá’s trailblazing dramas of two powerful, nineteenth century Ìyálóde during the seventy-year protracted internecine Yorùbá wars. Besides important male historical figures, change agents included a number of very distinguished women who have been written out of history, but whose trajectory, undoubtedly, did not stop with the nineteenth century...

by Melanie Otto

In A Creole Experiment, Melanie Otto examines the utopian aspect of Brathwaite’s major “video-style” works while employing the concepts of Heimat (homeland) and “concrete utopia,” which were developed by philosopher Ernst Bloch in The Principle of Hope.  She also focuses on Brathwaite’s interrogation and reinterpretation of the conventions of magical realism. Unlike mainstream Latin American magical realism, Brathwaite’s work is radical in both form and content, developing a distinctly creole aesthetic.  In addition, Otto notes that Brathwaite’s vision of a “creole cosmos” does not refer to an ideal place. Instead, it reveals the tangibility of an often dismal day-to-day existence.

Asonzeh Ukah
Sub-Saharan Africa appears to be the theatre where a remarkably sophisticated and complex drama of socio-cultural change is playing out. Nowhere is this social transformation more evident than in the cities and towns of Nigeria. In this country of more than 130 million inhabitants, religion—in its varied forms—has taken over urban landscapes, political discourse, the airwaves of radio and television broadcasting, economic and educational practices and policies as well as social interaction. Pentecostalism, in its latest incarnation(s),

by Fritz Pointer
This is a literary biography of one of South Africa’s most eminent men of letters, Justin Alexander La Guma, who is better known as Alex La Guma and is one of the twentieth century’s most prolific, eloquent, and courageous writers. Although Pointer gives some attention to La Guma’s years as a journalist, he mainly focuses on La Guma’s novelette, A Walk in the Night, and his novels, And a Threefold Cord, The Stone Country, In the Fog of the Season’s End, and Time of a Butcherbird.

by Bizeck Jube Phiri
The author examines the introduction of the one party state in Zambia and its role in the political history of the country and argues that the failure of multi-party politics during the First Republic, which lasted from independence in 1964 to December 1972, reflected the lack of preparedness during the colonial period for plural politics.