African Memory

Tracking the Memory is primarily a collection of informative and personal stories about the different experiences of hunting. It is also the culmination of a boyhood enterprise of exploration and discovery that began on a farm in the Chipinga area of British colonial Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) during the mid-1950s, and continued along the banks of the majestic Sabi (Save) River, and lives to this day 65 years on as a lifetime career and passion of the author. Kevin Thomas is first a professional hunter but thankfully he is also a writer, and as such we have this collection of first hand accounts ...

In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of...

In this bold and provocative book, historian Gregory Smithers investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. He argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South.

Did the Yoruba people descend from heaven through Oduduwa? For centuries, Yoruba oral tradition has told of a sacred descent — a chain from the sky, sand scattered upon primordial waters, and the founding of Ile-Ife, the spiritual cradle of a civilization. But what does archaeology say? What does linguistics reveal? What does DNA research confirm? In The Real Origins of the Yoruba, Frederick Amakom brings together oral history, Ifa philosophy, political systems, archaeology, colonial historiography, and modern genetic science to answer one of Africa’s most important civilizational ...

The long-awaited memoir by the comedy legend and author of multiple New York Times bestsellers, a beautiful and mesmerizing book that reveals as never before his childhood in South Central Los Angeles, his time in the infamous Bloods gang, and how humor became his salvation. I learned a joke...

What if your body remembered a future your mind had never lived? Leigh Ludlow knows what it means to survive love. She has loved deeply, lost devastatingly, and learned the hard way that grief does not disappear simply because life keeps moving. After losing two great loves, Leigh has finally begun to accept that surviving and living are not the same thing. Then Ghana changes everything. At a mysterious retreat rooted in Sankofa—the belief that sometimes we must return to what was in order to move forward—Leigh expects to confront her past. Instead, she begins seeing what appears to be ...

In this “brilliantly original” and warmhearted novel, an old set of encyclopedias leads a young woman to a curious museum and one profoundly moving lesson: that every life is an extraordinary life (New York Times bestselling author Claire Mackintosh). Still reeling from the sudden death of...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and country music superstar Jana Kramer reveals how she said goodbye, started again, moved on, and trusted God after her marriage came to a sudden end. The Next Chapter is Jana Kramer’s intimate and moving account about setting her life...

"From book one, this series grips with masterful suspense and relentless intrigue. The protagonist's pursuit of justice is vivid and explosive, making for a truly captivating read. Adventure and danger at every turn!" – Daily Mail Book 1: The Phantom of The Congo Deep within the impenetrable rainforests of the Congo, a ruthless predator waits. When insurance investigator Jason Green arrives at a remote research station beneath Ngandu Mountain, what begins as a routine investigation quickly becomes a desperate fight for survival. Book 2: The Teeth of Giants Chinese crime syndicates are ...

A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the literary icons of our time. Coming in March 2022 from Apple Plus , a six-part series starring Samuel L. Jackson Ptolemy Grey is ninety-one years old and has been all but forgotten-by his family, his friends, even himself-as...

A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in Victorian England—based on the real-life story of a recently rediscovered historical figure, Sarah Forbes Bonetta. With a brilliant mind and a fierce will to survive, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a...

A “powerful” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of Thaddeus Stevens—one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen—encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice to America. Thaddeus Stevens was among the first to see the Civil War...

The central theme of Connections Remembered is the ancient African origins of humanity and civilization, framed around the impact of these historical hallmarks on healthy Black identity development. It is an easy-to-read, yet scientifically validated account of the remarkable accomplishments of ancient Africa and her people. This new edition emphasizes the inextricable linkage between Black self-concept and what Black people are taught through the Eurocentric curricula’s expression of African Americans’ historical roots. It debunks the flawed and psychically devastating view that Black ...

Television writer, producer, and bestselling author of the acclaimed The Broke Diaries and Mixed charts her unexpected role as her terminally ill mother's caretaker in this funny, moving, and unforgettable memoir. Angela Nissel always wanted her mother’s approval. But two defining events...

The mic is live, Lagos is listening and the past won’t stay quiet. In the smoke-thick back room of a suya stand, a rising true-crime podcaster hears a whisper in his own voice and starts to doubt the one story he can’t afford to misremember. When a viral scandal accuses beloved grill-master Baba Sikiru of serving human meat, Tunde is pulled into a frenzy of rumors, bones in the bin, and a crowd hungry for answers. The city wants a culprit; the police want a confession; and Tunde just wants the truth, until evidence with his initials surfaces, and the case turns intimate, dangerous, and ...

A 2026 Audie Awards Finalist! Adapted from Clint Smith's #1 New York Times bestselling and universally acclaimed How the Word Is Passed,this must-read narrative takes readers to historical sites across America, exploring the legacy of slavery to help readers make sense of our nation's past and...

Stories from the Human Future is a collection of thought-provoking speculative stories about what happens when technology begins to challenge the boundaries of what it means to be human. Across stories of artificial intelligence, memory, leadership, consciousness, love, loss and the African future, Ijigban Daniel Oketa explores questions that machines may one day help us answer—but cannot answer for us. What happens when an AI can predict your decision but cannot understand why you made it? When memories become something that can be bought and sold? When machines know every road but ...

What if the price of progress was your very existence? In the neon-lit depths of Lagos, where the privileged ascend and the forgotten fade, one truth remains—power is never given, only taken. The Red Veil refuses to kneel. Whispers of rebellion spark in the shadows, led by Dupe Oladipo, a warrior with nothing left to lose. But in a city where corporate giants rewrite history at will, can defiance be anything more than a dying ember? As NexCorps tightens its grip, the lines between loyalty and betrayal blur, and even memory is a weapon. What secrets lie buried beneath the chrome towers of ...

Audiobook read by Grammy award-winning author, Blair Underwood In this moving biography and memoir, Blair Underwood, acclaimed star of film, stage, and television, pays homage to his mother, sharing her well-lived life, and key lessons learned as a fashion designer, mother, and soldier’s wife...

He was built to protect the system. The system built him to disappear. Lagos, 2049. A hundred million people wear the Ayo Pulse, and the city has not had a murder in the Belt for six years. Ninety-four percent of crimes are stopped before they happen. The other six percent are closed by outcome. Tunde Alade is the man who closes them. Four hundred and twelve pre-emptive detentions in his name. A partner he trusts, a mother he visits with a cup of tea, and a childhood he could walk through blindfold. Then a routine extraction goes wrong, a memory will not stay where it was put, and a ...