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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780300274158 | ISBN 10: 0300274157
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy.
“A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won’t see Cleopatra the same way again.”—Publishers Weekly
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£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571377763 | ISBN 10: 0571377769
Translated by Sophie Lewis
‘Striking.’ ELLE France
‘Brave.’ iNews
‘Powerful.’ TLS
‘Urgent.’ Evening Standard
‘Original.’ Cosmopolitan
In these essays, Leïla Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grap ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780863569364 | ISBN 10: 0863569366
1920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed – a counterculture was on the rise. In bars, hash-dens and music halls, people of all backgrounds came together as a passionate group of art ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349701639 | ISBN 10: 0349701636
The Sex Lives of African Women uniquely amplifies individual women from across the African continent and its global diaspora, as they speak of their diverse experiences of sex, sexualities and relationships.
Many of the women who tell their sto ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781472275844 | ISBN 10: 1472275845
An inspirational story of one girl who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for girls and women throughout Africa.
Born in a remote village in Kenya, Nice Leng'ete saw the young ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780008305383 | ISBN 10: 0008305382
Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all - for the women of Africa. A Woman of Firsts tells the inspirational story of a remarkable daughter, nurse and First Lady. The indomitable Edna Adan Ismail survived imprisonment ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786990808 | ISBN 10: 1786990806
The Liberian civil wars of the 1990s and 2000s became notorious for their atrocities, and for the widespread use of child soldiers. Girls and young women accounted for up to 40 per cent of these soldiers, but their unique perspective and experiences ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786090508 | ISBN 10: 1786090503
When Clemantine Wamariya was six years old, her world was torn apart. She didn't know why her parents began talking in whispers, or why her neighbours started disappearing, or why she could hear distant thunder even when the skies were clear.
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£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911115595 | ISBN 10: 1911115596
“We decided to put together this collection of thirty narratives to correct the invisibility, the confusion, the caricaturising and the writing out of history.”
This stirring and intimate collection brings together 30 unique narratives t ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999683306 | ISBN 10: 1999683307
A leading writer of Zimbabwe’s ‘born-free’ generation reflects on the November 2017 ousting of Robert Mugabe, radically reframing the history of Zimbabwe to include the perspectives of workers, women and urban movements
In November 20 ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786993069 | ISBN 10: 1786993066
Nawal El Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class. For her, writing and action have been inseperable and this is reflected in some of the most evocative ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781632280572 | ISBN 10: 1632280574
Growing up and living in Kibera, Kenya, Abdul Kassim was well aware of the disproportionate number of challenges faced by women due to the extreme gender inequalities that persist in the slums. After being raised by his aunts, mother, and grandmother ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781620972571 | ISBN 10: 1620972573
Former Boko Haram captives tell their terrifying and heartbreaking stories to a leading European journalist.
"Over a six-year insurgency, Boko Haram has forced two million Nigerians from their homes, with upwards of one million refugees in Maidugu ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408708958 | ISBN 10: 1408708957
A Gift from Darkness is the harrowing yet inspirational story of a young, pregnant Nigerian girl and the hell she endured for the sake of her unborn child when she was kidnapped by Boko Haram.
When Patience Ibrahim's husband died, she feare ... more
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£6.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241980897 | ISBN 10: 0241980895
An urgent Penguin Special investigating the 2014 mass-kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by the world's deadliest terrorists.
On 14th April 2014, 276 girls disappeared from a secondary school in northern Nigeria, kidnapped by the world's deadlies ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783609086 | ISBN 10: 1783609087
Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilising around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In Tanzania and Tunisia, women have made major gain ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910593097 | ISBN 10: 1910593095
The remarkable story of Somali Olympian Samia Yusuf Omar.
In 2008, 17-year-old Samia Yusuf Omar stood alongside some of the fastest women in the world on the start line of the Olympic 200m. Four years later, she boarded a refugee boat to Eur ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781471153983 | ISBN 10: 1471153983
Imagine for a moment that you are 6-years-old and you are woken in the early hours, bathed and then dressed in rags before being led down to an ominous looking tent at the end of your garden. And there, you are subjected to the cruellest cut, ordered ... more
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£24.50 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781469620916 | ISBN 10: 146962091x
Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9789774166693 | ISBN 10: 9774166698
A writer, a university professor, a woman: this is the insightful and humorous description of one hesitant revolutionary's experiences through the eighteen days of the Egyptian uprising that led to the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in January/Febru ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781784530426 | ISBN 10: 1784530425
Mamphela Ramphele is a figurehead of modern South Africa. The partner of Steve Biko, until his death in 1977, she has demonstrated extraordinary political leadership and statesmanship, most recently as the leader of the Agang SA party.
In t ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781743314470 | ISBN 10: 1743314477
Warrior Princess is the hilarious and inspirational memoir of Mindy Budgor, a young entrepreneur tired of corporate life, who decides to make changes in her life. While waiting for her Business School applications to go through, she decides to volunt ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844087884 | ISBN 10: 1844087883
The truly inspiring and moving story of a female doctor in war torn Somalia who refuses to leave her country and her people.
For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847083319 | ISBN 10: 1847083315
Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her father, activ ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780199829965 | ISBN 10: 0199829969
Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous - yet more poorly understood - than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching go ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781851688371 | ISBN 10: 1851688374
Monique Dembele saves lives and dispenses hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. Her unquenchable passion to improve the lot of the women and children in her West African village is matched by her buoyant humour in the face of u ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408800966 | ISBN 10: 1408800969
Nadine Gordimers life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of co ... more
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£22.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780253222480 | ISBN 10: 0253222486
An Igbo woman becomes king at a time of extraordinary change in Africa.
Nwando Achebe presents the fascinating history of an Igbo woman, Ahebi Ugbabe, who became king in colonial Nigeria. Ugbabe was exiled from Igboland, became a prostit ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844086306 | ISBN 10: 1844086305
'In prison you see only the moves of the enemy. Prison is the hardest place to fight a battle.'
117 Days is Ruth First's personal account of her detention under the iniquitous '90-day' law of 1963. There was no warrant, no charge and no tri ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844086573 | ISBN 10: 1844086577
Leah Chishugi grew up in eastern Congo but, aged seventeen, she moved to Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to work as a model. She married and had a son. Then in 1994 she was caught up in the horrific conflict, and escaped only after being left for dead u ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408805190 | ISBN 10: 1408805197
An astonishing story of one girl's journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative.
As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumours of rebel attacks were no m ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781920196196 | ISBN 10: 1920196196
Survivors of violence are often forced to flee emotionally and geographically from sites of violence. Women cross vast emotional and geographical borders in order to flee from violence to find a place of safety. This year, POWA called for entries ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340963579 | ISBN 10: 0340963573
Halima Bashir was born into the remote western deserts of Sudan. She grew up in a wonderfully rich environment and later went on to study medicine. At the age of twenty-four she returned to her tribe and began practising as their first ever qualified ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781848132290 | ISBN 10: 1848132298
In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi painted a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded her into a novelist and fighter for freedom and the rights of women. Walking Through Fire takes up the story of Saadawis extraordinary life ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781906190170 | ISBN 10: 1906190178
Beacons of Liberation was first published in 1995. It was themed on a mural at the Yaa Asantewaa Arts Centre in Paddington, London, depicting twelve historical Black leaders; six men and six women who had advanced the cause of African liberty by the ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099493099 | ISBN 10: 0099493098
'When I was a child, my surroundings were alive, dynamic, and inspiring. Even though I was entering a world where there were books to read and facts to learn - the cultivation of the mind - I was still able to enjoy a world where there were no books ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781416526247 | ISBN 10: 1416526242
In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia to her intellectual awakening in the Netherlands, to ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780954563721 | ISBN 10: 0954563727
The traditional perception of African women is that they toil day and night amidst grinding poverty while facing harsh cultural, traditional and social prejudices. Yet while it is true that, like elsewhere in the world, African women are not yet equa ... more
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£20.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781570757105 | ISBN 10: 1570757100
A study of female circumcision in Africa that considers religious and cultural beliefs.
A Kenyan woman theologianan insiderexamines arguments for and against the controversial practice of female circumcision. Based on her interviews with ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781558615311 | ISBN 10: 1558615318
This powerful memoir by international anti-FGM activist Fadumo Korn portrays both her life-altering transformation after she undergoes a brutal female circumcision at the age of seven and her journey to recovery and empowerment. As a feisty nomad, Fa ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780954702311 | ISBN 10: 095470231x
This unique book published 11 years after ETSs death will rekindle an awareness of the cultural dynamism, activism and Diasporic connections that Efua Theodora Sutherland achieved through her lifetimes work.
Efua Sutherland, Ghana-born ed ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781934389201 | ISBN 10: 193438920x
There's a Black Woman on each of the seven continents, in almost every country. So no matter where you go, she's already been there. Her presence is everywhere. Black Women for Beginners chronicles the trials and triumphs of Black Women from an ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781844084425 | ISBN 10: 1844084426
Alek Wek grew up in the Sudan in the midst of the vicious civil war. Now, at age 28, she is one of the most sought-after supermodels in the world, and has single-handedly changed the traditional concept of what is beautiful in the West. As model, ref ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845113315 | ISBN 10: 1845113314
Lucie Duff Gordon was a world apart from her Victorian counterparts. An intellectual, traveller, writer and progressive social commentator, she and her husband led a bohemian, eccentric and highly unconventional life in London, socialising with such ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141016047 | ISBN 10: 0141016043
For the first twenty years of my life this is what I knew about my background: I was born in Eritrea, a tiny country on the north-east coast of Africa. My mother died in childbirth, my father not long afterwards. I was placed in an orphanage in Asmar ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781592214044 | ISBN 10: 1592214045
This dramatic story of the efforts of the heroine and her friends to bring about change in the social conditions of women in Nigeria addresses pressing political issues which rarely appear in fiction - the legal status of Muslim women, the limitation ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846270536 | ISBN 10: 1846270537
When Eugene de Kock, commanding officer of the apartheid death squads, was sentenced to 212 years for crimes against humanity, the black South Africans outside Pretoria's surpreme court cheered and danced: the killer who had been nicknamed 'Prime Evi ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781770090934 | ISBN 10: 1770090932
This unique book documents same sexuality in East and southern Africa. Eight of the chapters have been co-authored by women activists spanning six different countries. They have collected personal narratives on a range of issues related to sex and se ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141017242 | ISBN 10: 0141017244
For over a decade Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world; a beautiful queen blessed by the sun-god, adored by her family and worshipped by her people. Her image and her name were celebrat ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781844080083 | ISBN 10: 1844080080
Fasion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman. Born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia, she told her story - enduring female circumcision at five years old; running away at twelve throu ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780958470827 | ISBN 10: 0958470820
The resonance of Call Me Woman is as great in 2004 as when first published in 1985. It tells the important history of not only one woman struggling under apartheid but of millions who faced similar challenges. Like millions of black South Africa ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781919931517 | ISBN 10: 1919931511
The world is crying out for a leadership that is founded on spiritual values of sharing, compassion, interdependence and mutual respect. In this as in other life matters that involve humanity and human relationships, Africa is well positioned to lead ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780865438989 | ISBN 10: 0865438986
In her book, Susan Arndt discusses and defines the nature of African feminism and African-feminist literatures. Taking account of African-feminist literatures heterogeneity as well, in a second step its varieties are discussed and grouped into a cla ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780006531265 | ISBN 10: 0006531261
Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood, of an idyll which became the stuff of nightmare. As a child she witnessed the upheavals of post-colonial Africa, danger, flight, the bitterness of ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781564322760 | ISBN 10: 1564322769
Within the larger war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo) the warring parties carry out another war: that of sexual violence against women and girls. As military activities increase in one area after another, so do rapes and other cri ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780753811412 | ISBN 10: 0753811413
For thirteen years Dian Fossey lived and worked with Uncle Bert, Flossie, Beethoven, Pantsy and Digit in the remote rain forests of the volcanic Virunga Mountains in Africa, establishing an unprecedented relationship with these shy and affectionate b ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781860497582 | ISBN 10: 1860497586
"Born a Somalian nomad, by the time she made it as a top model, she'd survived genital mutilation and a face-off with a tiger... She's now a UN special Ambassador. Take a cue from Waris's charm and courage."(Company)"A story that traverses continents ... more
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£9.99 paperback (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780747520221 | ISBN 10: 0747520224
Aman is the intimate first-person account of a young woman's coming-of-age in Somalia. The daughter of tribal leaders, Aman recounts her dramatic life with stark simplicity and winning candour: an innocent childhood romance with a white boy that lead ... more
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£26.99 paperback (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780862327019 | ISBN 10: 0862327016
Dr Koso-Thomas shows that female circumcision is not confined to the Horn of Africa, or the Muslim areas of the continent. Her study of the practice in Sierra Leone demonstrates its important role in the traditional initiation of females into both w ... more
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