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Meet Stanley Williams: Single, in his thirties, grieving the death of his Jamaican father and wondering if there is more to life than his nine-to-five banking job in a sky-high glass menagerie. Enter Jessie O'Donnell: barmaid, former singer-cum-comedienne, and desperate to get into her rusty old Lady Niva and hit the freeway across Europe. The unlikely pair begin an electrifying odyssey that weaves in and out of history, colliding with the forgotten heroes of Europe's past.

Die 15-jährige Véronique flieht aus dem Haus ihrer Eltern, nachdem sie ihren Vater mit dessen Dienstwaffe erschossen hat. Ein gleichaltriges Mädchen hilft ihr lange Zeit, sich zu verbergen, doch als sie sich endlich in Sicherheit glauben und in das Nachtleben der Clubs von Conakry wagen, taucht eine mysteriöse Figur auf: Ein Verfolger, der ihr Geheimnis zu kennen scheint. Die Art, wie der Roman Véroniques Geschichte erzählt, ist ein Ereignis, das verschiedene Zeiträume und Kontinente verbindet.

Winner, ASR Best Africa-Focused Edited Collection by the African Studies Review Recent years have seen increased scholarly and media interest in the cross-border movements of LGBT persons, particularly those seeking protection in the Global North . While this has helped focus attention on the plight of individuals fleeing homophobic or transphobic persecution, it has also reinvigorated racist tropes about the Global South.

Ein moderner Mythos, die literarische Karambolage all der konkurrierenden Geschichten in einem kolonisierten Land! Von Kibogo erzählt man sich in der Nacht am Feuer hinter vorgehaltener Hand. Leise lauscht man dem Geschichtenerzähler, der die Legenden der alten Hügel webt und der die verbotenen Geschichten noch zu erzählen weiß. Die, die Kirchenmissionare mit allen Mitteln auslöschen wollten. 

In this latest book by the award-winning author of the hugely influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands, Ifi Amadiume propels gender relations beyond dichotomies and discriminations, and towards a power-sharing argument in discourse, contestation and resistance.

Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara’s Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home—as place, as people, as body, and as language.

What does it feel like to wake up in the Panopticon? It's like waking up for the first time ever. It's like waking up with a third eye." When Moremi connects her brain to the Panopticon, a network which allows you to see inside the minds and dreams of others, she believes that it will save her from depression, loneliness and, eventually, death. That is until she meets Orpheus. Orpheus was brought up in isolation by a Neo-luddite father.