The Education of a British-Protected Child
Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe

Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27255-3 (0-307-27255-9)

From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays—his first new book in more than twenty years.

Chinua Achebe’s characteristically measured and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. In a preface, he discusses... Read more >

The Thing Around Your Neck

Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27107-5 (0-307-27107-2)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years” (Baltimore Sun), with “prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes” (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post... Read more >

Tears of the Desert
A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
Written by Halima Bashir and Damien Lewis

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-51046-4 (0-345-51046-1)

Born into the Zaghawa tribe in the Sudanese desert, Halima Bashir received a good education away from her rural surroundings (thanks to her doting, politically astute father) and at twenty-four became her village’s first formal doctor. Yet not even Bashir’s degree could protect her from the encroaching conflict that would consume... Read more >

The Challenge for Africa

Written by Wangari Maathai

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-37740-1 (0-307-37740-7)

Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenges facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds.

The troubles of Africa today are severe and wide-ranging... Read more >

Wife of the Gods
A Novel
Written by Kwei Quartey

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6759-6 (1-4000-6759-6)

Kwei Quartey’s debut novel brings to life the majesty and charm of Ghana–from the capital city of Accra to a small community where long-buried secrets are about to rise to the surface.

In a shady grove outside the small town of Ketanu, a young woman–a promising med student–has been found dead under... Read more >

Too Close to the Sun
The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
Written by Sara Wheeler

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6892-7 (0-8129-6892-1)

A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Denys Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler tells the truth about this extraordinarily charismatic adventurer.

Born to an old aristocratic... Read more >