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 ...

“You have no idea who you’re dealin’ with here. He wasn’t just a slave for a few years; he was a slave most of his life. We don’t even know half his story.” The summer heat settled over the countryside like a weight that could not be lifted. Dust clung to everything—the roads, the fences, the air itself—and the land seemed to breathe in slow, tired rhythms, as if it had already given more than it could afford. By then, the country had learned to endure. Men stood in lines that stretched longer each week. Farms failed quietly. Families spoke in lowered voices about money that...

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.

In "Africa to Arizona–Memories of a South African Scatterling" Tihêhô takes listeners on a captivating journey through his life, spanning continents and cultures. Born and raised on the picturesque farm of Wintershoek in South Africa, his childhood is filled with adventures, close encounters with wildlife, and the unique experiences of rural life. Tihêhô's early years are rich with memories that shaped his identity. His years in the military also left scars on him–both psychological as well as physical.

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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 debut family novel about four sisters growing up on the campus of the underfunded state mental hospital where their strong-willed mother serves as head of psychiatry. A richly moving story of sisterhood, loyalty, and mental health in America. "Mercy Hill—both the place and the people who...

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 ...

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...

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...

The gods don’t forgive oath-breakers. Kẹ́hìndẹ́ became one to remember his own name. In the flame-torn empire of Olájúmò, to forget is to serve, and to remember is a death sentence. Conscripted into the brutal Ember Academy, Kẹ́hìndẹ́ is marked as Afipa; a nameless vessel of inherited shame forced to bond with storm-serpents for a throne that erased his history. He is a boy stitched together by scars, haunted by the fading ghost of a sister he was made to forget. When an ancient, forbidden magic known as the Spiral awakens within his marrow, it offers the one thing the ...

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 ...

The magic required a price. The price was a lie. For three years, King Ọlátúnbọ́sún has systematically emptied his own mind to anchor the woman he loves. With 458 sacred memories burned to ash and his left arm locked in the grey deadness of the Tactile Void, he carries the physical ruins of a war fought in the wrong direction. Above the scarred land of Ilẹ̀-Orun, Queen Ifẹ́ọ̀lá remains suspended in the sky-colossus, running out of human memory reserves while the storm around her begins to dream. He saved her from dissolving into weather, but the tether’s cost has left ...

To master the fire, he must forget his soul. Kẹ́hìndé Ọládòkun is a cadet forged in the shadow of the Obsidian Coliseum. In an empire where memory is the most dangerous currency, the bond between a rider and their Maegila, a spectral beast of myth and flame; is the only thing standing between honor and erasure. But the magic of the Ash-Wing Quarter comes with a devastating price: every spell cast burns away a piece of the caster’s past. When Kẹ́hìndé wakes to find his personal history vanishing from his journals and his lineage’s sacred oríkì twisting into forbidden, ...

She loved him more than herself. Now she has to choose herself to survive. Claudia thought Darius was her forever. But after betrayal, heartbreak, and violence that cut deeper than words, she’s left staring at the wreckage of a life built on false promises. From a sterile abortion clinic to the quiet ache of silent bruises, she wakes up to a truth she’s tried to outrun: What she thought was love... was slowly destroying her. Fleeing to a beachside Breakup Bootcamp, Claudia begins the hard work of healing after break. Surrounded by women walking through their own silent wars, she finds ...