Josie Mpama/Palmer
Get Up and Get Moving
By Robert R. Edgar
The latest in the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Josie Mpama/Palmer: Get Up and Get Moving tells the story of Josie Mpama/Palmer’s activism and political legacy in South Africa and around the world.
Biography, Activists · Women’s Studies · South Africa · African Studies
Safari Nation
A Social History of the Kruger National Park
By Jacob S. T. Dlamini
Safari Nation tells the history of the Kruger National Park through a black perspective, helping explain why Africa’s national parks—often derided by scholars as colonial impositions—survived the end of white rule on the continent.
Environmental History · African History · Race and Ethnicity · South Africa · African Studies · Apartheid
Wangari Maathai
By Tabitha Kanogo
This concise biography tells the story of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to campaigning for environmental conservation, sustainable development, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty.
Biography, Activists · Women’s Studies · Biography, Women · Kenya · African Studies
Reunited
The Correspondence of Anaïs and Joaquín Nin, 1933–1940
By Anaïs Nin and Joaquín Nin
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Edited by Paul Herron
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Introduction by Paul Herron
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Preface by Paul Herron
In 1913, Joaquín Nin abandoned his family, including his ten-year-old daughter, Anaïs. Twenty years later, Anaïs and Joaquín reunited and began an illicit sexual affair. Long believed to have been destroyed and lost to history, Reunited reveals correspondence between father and daughter, exposing for the first time both sides of their complicated relationship.
The Cape Cod Bicycle War
and Other Stories
By Billy Kahora
The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories is Billy Kahora’s long-awaited debut collection. Stories in this volume have appeared in Granta and McSweeney’s and have been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing.
Fiction · African Authors · Short Stories (single author) · subjects
House of Incest
By Anaïs Nin
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Introduction by Allison Pease
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Foreword by Gunther Stuhlmann
Originally published in 1936, House of Incest is Anaïs Nin’s first work of fiction. Based on Nin’s dreams, the novel is a surrealistic look within the narrator’s subconscious as she attempts to distance herself from a series of all-consuming and often taboo desires.
From Jail to Jail
By Tan Malaka
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Translation by Helen Jarvis
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Introduction by Harry A. Poeze
From Jail to Jail is the political autobiography of Sutan Ibrahim gelar Tan Malaka, an enigmatic and colorful political thinker of twentieth-century Asia, who was one of the most influential figures of the Indonesian Revolution. Variously labeled a communist, Trotskyite, and nationalist, Tan Malaka managed to run afoul of nearly every political group and faction involved in the Indonesian struggle for independence.
Asian History · Biography, Activists · World and Comparative History · Political Science, Asia · Indonesia · Southeast Asian Studies
Ailing in Place
Environmental Inequities and Health Disparities in Appalachia
By Michele Morrone
Ailing in Place examines environmental conditions in Appalachia and explores the relationship between those conditions and certain health outcomes that are often incorrectly ascribed to poor individual choices.
Appalachian Studies · Public Health · Environmental Policy · Appalachia
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Safari Nation
A Social History of the Kruger National Park
By Jacob S. T. Dlamini
Safari Nation tells the history of the Kruger National Park through a black perspective, helping explain why Africa’s national parks—often derided by scholars as colonial impositions—survived the end of white rule on the continent.
Environmental History · African History · Race and Ethnicity · South Africa · African Studies · Apartheid
Josie Mpama/Palmer
Get Up and Get Moving
By Robert R. Edgar
The latest in the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Josie Mpama/Palmer: Get Up and Get Moving tells the story of Josie Mpama/Palmer’s activism and political legacy in South Africa and around the world.
Biography, Activists · Women’s Studies · South Africa · African Studies
Wangari Maathai
By Tabitha Kanogo
This concise biography tells the story of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to campaigning for environmental conservation, sustainable development, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty.
Biography, Activists · Women’s Studies · Biography, Women · Kenya · African Studies
Wangari Maathai
By Tabitha Kanogo
This concise biography tells the story of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to campaigning for environmental conservation, sustainable development, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty.
Biography, Activists · Women’s Studies · Biography, Women · Kenya · African Studies
Reunited
The Correspondence of Anaïs and Joaquín Nin, 1933–1940
By Anaïs Nin and Joaquín Nin
·
Edited by Paul Herron
·
Introduction by Paul Herron
·
Preface by Paul Herron
In 1913, Joaquín Nin abandoned his family, including his ten-year-old daughter, Anaïs. Twenty years later, Anaïs and Joaquín reunited and began an illicit sexual affair. Long believed to have been destroyed and lost to history, Reunited reveals correspondence between father and daughter, exposing for the first time both sides of their complicated relationship.
The Cape Cod Bicycle War
and Other Stories
By Billy Kahora
The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories is Billy Kahora’s long-awaited debut collection. Stories in this volume have appeared in Granta and McSweeney’s and have been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing.
Fiction · African Authors · Short Stories (single author) · subjects
House of Incest
By Anaïs Nin
·
Introduction by Allison Pease
·
Foreword by Gunther Stuhlmann
Originally published in 1936, House of Incest is Anaïs Nin’s first work of fiction. Based on Nin’s dreams, the novel is a surrealistic look within the narrator’s subconscious as she attempts to distance herself from a series of all-consuming and often taboo desires.
