by Toby Milner | Dec 16, 2023 | Books, Events
Where to buy our publications in Birmingham? Now you can find out Books of Africa’s publication at: http://www.mybookbasket.com/ contact@mybookbasket.com Tel: 07592 345276 OneStop Shopping Centre, Market Village (next to the Shoe Repair Shop) Perry Barr,...
by Toby Milner | Dec 5, 2023 | Books
Ousmane Sembene is now best known as a great film director, ‘The Father of African Cinema’, but before his first films he was already acclaimed for his novels. The son of a Senegalese fisherman, Sembene was expelled from school and after service in the French army...
by Toby Milner | Apr 21, 2019 | Books
“A humanist gem of a book”Review by Richard Trillo, author of Rough Guides to Kenya and West Africa. Back in the Nigel Watt’s younger days, when he worked as a teacher and school head in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), a “communist” was any white person who supported...
by Toby Milner | Jun 15, 2017 | Books, Events
Beautiful, Royal and Divine: The Black Image in Antiquity Beautiful, Royal and Divine: The Black Image in Antiquity is the forthcoming work by Runoko Rashidi. It is a compilation of 175 of his best photos from the museums of the world. Images from more than seventy...
by Toby Milner | Mar 16, 2017 | Books, Events
Abraham Hanibal, a review by Dr Runoko Rashidi Abraham Hanibal, Prince of Logone, Pushkin’s African Ancestor, a review by Dr Runoko Rashidi One of the best things that has happened in the world of scholarly literature of late is the English language...
