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African Studies 2015.Indd AFRICAN STUDIES Books for Courses 2015 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP WWW.PENGUIN.COM/ACADEMIC 2 FEATURED TITLES Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o THE RIVER BETWEEN Introduction by Uzodinma Iweala The 50th-anniversary edition of a legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures the drama of a people and culture whose world has been overturned. During the early days of white settlement in Kenya, the Gikuyu people are faced with a choice between an alluring new religion and their own ancestral customs. “Beautifully com- pact....It takes its reader on a journey out of the colonial matrix and into the world of the real, showing us life reclaimed in all its complexity from the simplifying template of colonialism....It has an undeniable power.” — Uzodinma Iweala, from the Introduction. “Has the rare qualities of restraint, intelligence and sensitivity.” —The Times Literary Supplement. Penguin • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-310749-1 • $15.00 Devil on the Cross Introduction by Binyavanga Wainaina Written in secret on toilet paper, while Ngũgĩ was in prison, this powerful fictional critique of capitalism tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a rural Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited by her boss and later by a corrupt businessman. As she struggles to survive, Wariinga begins to realize that her problems are only symptoms of a larger societal malaise and that much of the misfortune stems from the Western, capitalist influences on her coun- try. An impassioned cry for a Kenya free of dictatorship and for African writers to work in their own local dialects, Devil on the Cross has had a profound influence on Africa and on post-colonial African literature. “One of our century’s great novels.” —Tribune. Penguin Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-310736-1 • $16.00 Available July 2016 See page 8 for other titles by Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURED TITLES .................................................. 2 POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS ............................11 LITERATURE ............................................................ 4 RELIGION & ANTHROPOLOGY ............................13 J.M. COETZEE ................................................. 5 REFERENCE ...........................................................14 NURUDDIN FARAH ........................................ 6 NADINE GORDIMER ...................................... 7 COLLEGE FACULTY INFORMATION SERVICE ......15 NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O .................................... 8 EXAMINATION AND DESK COPIES ......................17 HISTORY ................................................................. 8 MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY........................................10 For more African Studies related titles, please see our Literature, Geography, History and Sociology catalogs, available for download on www.penguin.com/subjectcatalogs AFRICAN STUDIES 2015 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP u denotes new or forthcoming title 3 FEATURED TITLES Barbara H. Solomon and W. Reginald Rampone Jr, editors AN AFRICAN QUILT 24 Modern African Stories Introduction by Barbara H. Solomon Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature char- acters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disinte- grating relationships. Includes stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and others. Signet Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-451-53203-9 • $7.95 Marcus Rediker THE AMISTAD REBELLION An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom A unique account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, now updated with a new epilogue about the author’s trip to Sierra Leona to search for the slave-trading factory where the Amistad Africans were incarcer- ated. “Vividly drawn….This stunning book honors the achievement of the captive Africans who fought for—and won—their freedom.” —The Philadelphia Tribune. Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-312398-9 • $17.00 Anna Badkhen WALKING WITH ABEL Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah Journalist Badkhen embeds herself with the Fulani cowboys—nomadic herders in Mali’s Sahel grasslands—as they embark on their annual migration across the savannah. “An amazing saga among the nomadic Fulani in the African Sahel. Badkhen’s account is a wondrous tableau of survival in one of the planet’s toughest environ- ments, threaded with history, legend, and a wealth of stories.”—Wayne White, Middle East Institute. Riverhead • 320 pp. • 978-1-59463-248-8 • $27.95 Kofi Annan INTERVENTIONS A Life in War and Peace Contribution by Nader Mousavizadeh “The accounts related by Annan… are worth every minute spent reading them. Nobody alive can quite match what he has heard and seen….With his book as his legacy, perhaps [Annan] will inspire younger individuals to make inroads against incredible cruelty around the world.” —Christian Science Monitor. Penguin • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-312395-8 • $18.00 Chinua Achebe THERE WAS A COUNTRY A Memoir “Achebe’s history of Biafra is a meditation on the condition of freedom….Achebe has created here a new genre of literature in which politico-historical evidence, the power of story-telling, and revelations from the depths of the human subconscious are one. The event of a new work by Chinua Achebe is always extraordinary; this one exceeds all expectation.”—Nadine Gordimer. Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-312403-0 • $17.00 AFRICAN STUDIES 2015 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP u denotes new or forthcoming title 4 LITERATURE Saul Bellow Joseph Conrad LITERATURE HENDERSON THE RAIN KING THE NIGGER OF THE “NARCISSUS” Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-310548-0 • $16.00 and Other Stories Edited by Allan H. Simmons and J.H. Stape John Buchan Introduction by Gail Fraser Anonymous THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS Includes: “Youth,” “The Secret Sharer,” “The Lagoon,” u TALES FROM 1,001 NIGHTS Edited with an Introduction by John Keegan “An Outpost of Progress,” “Il Conde,” and “The Duel”. Aladdin, Ali Baba and Other Favourites Includes notes, a chronology, and further reading. Penguin Classics • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-144170-2 • $16.00 Translated by Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-144117-7 • $11.00 Introduction and Notes by Robert Irwin Quobna Ottobah Cugoano The essential one-volume edition of the THOUGHTS AND SENTIMENTS acclaimed landmark translation described as Bruce Chatwin THE VICEROY OF OUIDAH ON THE EVIL OF SLAVERY “the most ambitious and thorough translation” and Other Writings by the Guardian (UK). The story of a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails Edited with an Introduction Penguin Classics • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-119166-9 • $18.00 to West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. “Both a luminous historical document and Notes by Vincent Carretta and an exploitation of the surreal past.”—Time. “Carretta’s edition restores this important, but little Simi Bedford Penguin • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-011290-0 • $13.00 known author to his rightful place as a central fig- YORUBA GIRL DANCING ure in the Black Atlantic tradition of the eighteenth A semi-autobiographical first novel about a century...Masterful.”— Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Nigerian girl’s adjustment to life at an English Maryse Conde Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-044750-7 • $16.00 boarding school. “A wise and provocative book.” SEGU Translated by Barbara Bray —Publishers Weekly. Nina Darnton Penguin • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-023293-6 • $14.00 In the year 1797, the flourishing kingdom of Segu reckons with coming changes, in the forms of AN AFRICAN AFFAIR Islam from the east, and slave trade from the West. A New York journalist uncovers corruption, drug Aphra Behn Penguin • 512 pp. • 978-0-14-025949-0 • $17.00 smuggling, and rampant human rights abuses OROONOKO, THE ROVER, while covering the regime of Nigeria’s fictional AND OTHER WORKS president, and attracts government attention in Edited with an Introduction by Janet Todd Joseph Conrad this thriller drawn from Darnton’s own experiences Based on the first printed edition of 1688 and u HEART OF DARKNESS living in Africa during the mid-1970s. “A vivid por- includes a chronology, bibliography and notes. Classics Deluxe Edition trait of a troubled country.” —The New York Times. Includes “The Fair Jilt,” “Love Letters to a Gentle- Introduction by Adam Hochschild Plume • 272 pp. • 978-0-452-29802-6 • $16.00 man,” “The Widow Ranter” and poems. Illustrated by Mike Mignola Penguin Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-043338-8 • $13.00 Noted by Timothy Hayes Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-310658-6 • $14.00 Olaudah Equiano OROONOKO THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE HEART OF DARKNESS Edited with an Introduction and Other Writings and Notes by Janet Todd and THE CONGO DIARY Revised and Expanded Edition Edited by Owen Knowles, In this edition of the early antislavery novel, With Notes and an Introduction Robert Hampson and J.H. Stape Prince Oroonoko’s passion for Imoinda leads to by Vincent Carretta Introduction by Owen Knowles the lovers’ banishment from Africa into slavery “Vincent Carretta singlehandedly has transformed Notes by Owen Knowles and Robert Hampson our understanding of the origins of the Anglo-Afri- in Surinam. Includes modernized text and sug- Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-144167-2 • $11.00 gestions for further reading. can literary tradition.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “The Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-043988-5 • $12.00 YOUTH; HEART OF DARKNESS; most thoroughly researched and the most copi- THE END OF THE TETHER ously annotated text of Equiano’s Narrative ever Edited with an Introduction by John Lyon Stephen Belcher published, this is now the standard edition.”—Wil- Penguin Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-018513-3 • $13.00 liam L. Andrews, Univ. of Kansas. Contains the AFRICAN MYTHS OF ORIGIN complete text in addition to all other known writ- A unique anthology of retold fables from Africa with HEART OF DARKNESS AND ings by Equiano, published and unpublished. individual prefaces to each section, which put the THE SECRET SHARER Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-243716-2 • $14.00 stories in their geographical and social context. Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates Penguin Classics • 544 pp.
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