The Book Company: New Products - African

Nontsizi Mgqwetho (The Poet of the People (1919-1929))

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:37:22 +0000

This title offers analysis of Nontsizi Mgqwetho's appropriation of the imbongi tradition in 1920s South African newspapers. Examines early articulations of epistemic freedom, African political leadership, and cultural identity.

Price: $233.99

The New Carthaginians (Poems)

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:41:59 +0000

Winner of the Poetry London Prize for "Hollywood Africans"

Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize

Finalist for the Forward Prize for "Codex©"

Finalist for the Jhalak Prize

Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize

A Financial Time..

Price: $18.00

Fermented Memories (A Collection of Poems)

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:37:04 +0000

A poetry collection tracing migration, memory, language, displacement, and the ways people carry home with them across borders.

Fermented Memories is a collection of poems about what survives the crossing. Moving between the places we leave and where we arrive, between the ..
Price: $19.95

The Perfect Nine (The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:46:49 +0000

A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author that Delia Owens says ”tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent”

“A beautiful work of integration that not only refuses distinctions between ‘high art’ and traditional storytellin..
Price: $18.99

Holdings (Poems)

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:56:27 +0000

In this fifth poetry collection of remarkable poise and penetrating imagination, Egyptian American poet Matthew Shenoda steps into the Egyptian wings of our major museums, reanimating the objects, histories, and ancestral voices they house to consider how culture is made and remade across time—..
Price: $29.00

Best of Isele Anthology

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:15:53 +0000

Forbidden love, fractured communities, and the fierce pursuit of belonging—stories that traverse continents and centuries to illuminate the human heart.

Best of Isele Anthology is African literary fiction infused with magical realism books, folklore books, and diaspora storie..
Price: $24.99

I Who Have Always Felt Words (Poems)

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:21:55 +0000

For anyone who has ever carried the weight of inheritance, faith, and survival—and refused to be silent.

I Who Have Always Felt Words is a poetry collection shaped by inheritance, faith, and the radical act of thriving amid hardship. Moving through the four..
Price: $18.99

Kumi Na Mbili: New-Generation African Poets (A Chapbook Box Set)

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:16:20 +0000

THE LIMITED EDITION BOX SET is a project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks every year by African poets through Akashic Books. The series seeks to identify the best poetry written by African poets wo..
Price: $45.00

The Alphabets of Africa (Modern Poetry on Africa | A Cultural and Literary Exploration of the Continent in Verse)

Sat, 02 May 2026 19:51:00 +0000

The Alphabets of Africa is an ode to a continent that continues to define the human journey.
Through time, space and memory, these poems map Africa, celebrating its vast and vibrant tapestry. From the splendor of its ancient civilization to the pu..
Price: $18.99

TANO: New-Generation African Poets (A Chapbook Box Set)

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:04:56 +0000

“Tano is exquisitely composed and designed. This is a boxed set to be collected—and coveted.” —World Literature Today

The limited-edition box set is an annual project started in 20..
Price: $34.95