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Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth - by Francine Prose

£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780300274158 | ISBN 10: 0300274157

A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy. “A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won’t see Cleopatra the same way again.”—Publishers Weekly “W ... more
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Sex and Lies - by Leila Slimani

£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571377763 | ISBN 10: 0571377769

Translated by Sophie Lewis ‘Striking.’ ELLE France ‘Brave.’ iNews ‘Powerful.’ TLS ‘Urgent.’ Evening Standard ‘Original.’ Cosmopolitan In these essays, Leïla Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grap ... more
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Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring '20s - by Raphael Cormack

£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780863569364 | ISBN 10: 0863569366

1920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed – a counterculture was on the rise. In bars, hash-dens and music halls, people of all backgrounds came together as a passionate group of art ... more
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The Sex Lives of African Women - by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349701639 | ISBN 10: 0349701636

The Sex Lives of African Women uniquely amplifies individual women from across the African continent and its global diaspora, as they speak of their diverse experiences of sex, sexualities and relationships. Many of the women who tell their sto ... more
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A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built a Hospital and Changed the World - by Edna Adan Ismail

£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780008305383 | ISBN 10: 0008305382

Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all - for the women of Africa. A Woman of Firsts tells the inspirational story of a remarkable daughter, nurse and First Lady. The indomitable Edna Adan Ismail survived imprisonment ... more
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Liberia's Women Veterans: War, Roles and Reintegration - by Leena Vastapuu, illustrated by Emmi Nieminen

£19.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786990808 | ISBN 10: 1786990806

The Liberian civil wars of the 1990s and 2000s became notorious for their atrocities, and for the widespread use of child soldiers. Girls and young women accounted for up to 40 per cent of these soldiers, but their unique perspective and experiences ... more
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads - by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil

£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786090508 | ISBN 10: 1786090503

When Clemantine Wamariya was six years old, her world was torn apart. She didn't know why her parents began talking in whispers, or why her neighbours started disappearing, or why she could hear distant thunder even when the skies were clear. ... more
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She Called Me Woman: Nigeria's Queer Women Speak - by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan and Rafeeat Aliyu (Editors)

£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911115595 | ISBN 10: 1911115596

“We decided to put together this collection of thirty narratives to correct the invisibility, the confusion, the caricaturising and the writing out of history.” This stirring and intimate collection brings together 30 unique narratives t ... more
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These Bones Will Rise Again - by Panashe Chigumadzi

£7.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999683306 | ISBN 10: 1999683307

A leading writer of Zimbabwe’s ‘born-free’ generation reflects on the November 2017 ousting of Robert Mugabe, radically reframing the history of Zimbabwe to include the perspectives of workers, women and urban movements In November 20 ... more
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A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi - by Nawal El Saadawi

£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786993069 | ISBN 10: 1786993066

Nawal El Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class. For her, writing and action have been inseperable and this is reflected in some of the most evocative ... more
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Play Like a Girl: How a Soccer School in Kenya's Slums Started a Revolution - by Ellie Roscher

£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781632280572 | ISBN 10: 1632280574

Growing up and living in Kibera, Kenya, Abdul Kassim was well aware of the disproportionate number of challenges faced by women due to the extreme gender inequalities that persist in the slums. After being raised by his aunts, mother, and grandmother ... more
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Stolen Girls: Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story - by Wolfgang Bauer

£21.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781620972571 | ISBN 10: 1620972573

Former Boko Haram captives tell their terrifying and heartbreaking stories to a leading European journalist. "Over a six-year insurgency, Boko Haram has forced two million Nigerians from their homes, with upwards of one million refugees in Maidugu ... more
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A Gift from Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram - by Patience Ibrahim and Andrea C. Hoffmann

£13.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408708958 | ISBN 10: 1408708957

A Gift from Darkness is the harrowing yet inspirational story of a young, pregnant Nigerian girl and the hell she endured for the sake of her unborn child when she was kidnapped by Boko Haram. When Patience Ibrahim's husband died, she feare ... more
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The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings & Islamic Militancy in Nigeria - by Helon Habila

£6.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241980897 | ISBN 10: 0241980895

An urgent Penguin Special investigating the 2014 mass-kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by the world's deadliest terrorists. On 14th April 2014, 276 girls disappeared from a secondary school in northern Nigeria, kidnapped by the world's deadlies ... more
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Women's Activism in Africa: Struggles for Rights and Representation - by Balghis Badri and Aili Mari Tripp (Editor)

£19.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783609086 | ISBN 10: 1783609087

Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilising around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In Tanzania and Tunisia, women have made major gain ... more
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An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar - by Reinhard Kleist

£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910593097 | ISBN 10: 1910593095

The remarkable story of Somali Olympian Samia Yusuf Omar. In 2008, 17-year-old Samia Yusuf Omar stood alongside some of the fastest women in the world on the start line of the Olympic 200m. Four years later, she boarded a refugee boat to Eur ... more
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Keeping Hope Alive: How One Somali Woman Changed 90,000 Lives - by Hawa Abdi

£13.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844087884 | ISBN 10: 1844087883

The truly inspiring and moving story of a female doctor in war torn Somalia who refuses to leave her country and her people. For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847083319 | ISBN 10: 1847083315

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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780199829965 | ISBN 10: 0199829969

Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous - yet more poorly understood - than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching go ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781851688371 | ISBN 10: 1851688374

Monique Dembele saves lives and dispenses hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. Her unquenchable passion to improve the lot of the women and children in her West African village is matched by her buoyant humour in the face of u ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408800966 | ISBN 10: 1408800969

Nadine Gordimer�s life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of co ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844086306 | ISBN 10: 1844086305

'In prison you see only the moves of the enemy. Prison is the hardest place to fight a battle.' 117 Days is Ruth First's personal account of her detention under the iniquitous '90-day' law of 1963. There was no warrant, no charge and no tri ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844086573 | ISBN 10: 1844086577

Leah Chishugi grew up in eastern Congo but, aged seventeen, she moved to Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to work as a model. She married and had a son. Then in 1994 she was caught up in the horrific conflict, and escaped only after being left for dead u ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408805190 | ISBN 10: 1408805197

An astonishing story of one girl's journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative.� As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumours of rebel attacks were no m ... more
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Breaking the Silence: Journeys to Recovery - POWA Women's Writing Competition 2008 - by Various authors

£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781920196196 | ISBN 10: 1920196196

Survivors of violence are often forced to flee � emotionally and geographically � from sites of violence. Women cross vast emotional and geographical borders in order to flee from violence to find a place of safety. This year, POWA called for entries ... more
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Beacons of Liberation - by Shango Baku

£6.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781906190170 | ISBN 10: 1906190178

Beacons of Liberation was first published in 1995. It was themed on a mural at the Yaa Asantewaa Arts Centre in Paddington, London, depicting twelve historical Black leaders; six men and six women who had advanced the cause of African liberty by the ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099493099 | ISBN 10: 0099493098

'When I was a child, my surroundings were alive, dynamic, and inspiring. Even though I was entering a world where there were books to read and facts to learn - the cultivation of the mind - I was still able to enjoy a world where there were no books ... more
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Infidel: My Life - by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781416526247 | ISBN 10: 1416526242

In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia to her intellectual awakening in the Netherlands, to ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781558615311 | ISBN 10: 1558615318

This powerful memoir by international anti-FGM activist Fadumo Korn portrays both her life-altering transformation after she undergoes a brutal female circumcision at the age of seven and her journey to recovery and empowerment. As a feisty nomad, Fa ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780954702311 | ISBN 10: 095470231x

This unique book published 11 years after ETS�s death will rekindle an awareness of the cultural dynamism, activism and Diasporic connections that Efua Theodora Sutherland achieved through her lifetime�s work. Efua Sutherland, Ghana-born ed ... more
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Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt - by Katherine Frank

£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845113315 | ISBN 10: 1845113314

Lucie Duff Gordon was a world apart from her Victorian counterparts. An intellectual, traveller, writer and progressive social commentator, she and her husband led a bohemian, eccentric and highly unconventional life in London, socialising with such ... more
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My Father's Daughter - by Hannah Pool

£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141016047 | ISBN 10: 0141016043

For the first twenty years of my life this is what I knew about my background: I was born in Eritrea, a tiny country on the north-east coast of Africa. My mother died in childbirth, my father not long afterwards. I was placed in an orphanage in Asmar ... more
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A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer - by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846270536 | ISBN 10: 1846270537

When Eugene de Kock, commanding officer of the apartheid death squads, was sentenced to 212 years for crimes against humanity, the black South Africans outside Pretoria's surpreme court cheered and danced: the killer who had been nicknamed 'Prime Evi ... more
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Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives: Female same-sex practices in Africa - by Ruth Morgan & Saskia Wieringa

£14.95 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781770090934 | ISBN 10: 1770090932

This unique book documents same sexuality in East and southern Africa. Eight of the chapters have been co-authored by women activists spanning six different countries. They have collected personal narratives on a range of issues related to sex and se ... more
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Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen - by Joyce A. Tyldesley

£18.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141017242 | ISBN 10: 0141017244

For over a decade Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world; a beautiful queen blessed by the sun-god, adored by her family and worshipped by her people. Her image and her name were celebrat ... more
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Desert Dawn - by Waris Dirie

£8.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781844080083 | ISBN 10: 1844080080

Fasion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman. Born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia, she told her story - enduring female circumcision at five years old; running away at twelve throu ... more
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Call Me Woman - by Ellen Kuzwayo

£9.95 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780958470827 | ISBN 10: 0958470820

The resonance of Call Me Woman is as great in 2004 as when first published in 1985. It tells the important history of not only one woman struggling under apartheid but of millions who faced similar challenges. Like millions of black South Africa ... more
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Hearing Visions Seeing Voices - by Mmatshilo Motsei

£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781919931517 | ISBN 10: 1919931511

The world is crying out for a leadership that is founded on spiritual values of sharing, compassion, interdependence and mutual respect. In this as in other life matters that involve humanity and human relationships, Africa is well positioned to lead ... more
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The Dynamics of African Feminism: Defining and Classifying African Feminist Literatures - by Susan Arndt (editor)

£26.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780865438989 | ISBN 10: 0865438986

In her book, Susan Arndt discusses and defines the nature of African feminism and African-feminist literatures. Taking account of African-feminist literatures� heterogeneity as well, in a second step its varieties are discussed and grouped into a cla ... more
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The Devil that Danced on the Water - by Aminatta Forna

£10.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780006531265 | ISBN 10: 0006531261

Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood, of an idyll which became the stuff of nightmare. As a child she witnessed the upheavals of post-colonial Africa, danger, flight, the bitterness of ... more
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The War Within the War: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Eastern Congo - by Human Rights Watch

£9.95 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781564322760 | ISBN 10: 1564322769

Within the larger war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo) the warring parties carry out another war: that of sexual violence against women and girls. As military activities increase in one area after another, so do rapes and other cri ... more
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Gorillas in the Mist - by Dian Fossey

£9.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780753811412 | ISBN 10: 0753811413

For thirteen years Dian Fossey lived and worked with Uncle Bert, Flossie, Beethoven, Pantsy and Digit in the remote rain forests of the volcanic Virunga Mountains in Africa, establishing an unprecedented relationship with these shy and affectionate b ... more
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Desert Flower - by Waris Dirie

£8.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781860497582 | ISBN 10: 1860497586

"Born a Somalian nomad, by the time she made it as a top model, she'd survived genital mutilation and a face-off with a tiger... She's now a UN special Ambassador. Take a cue from Waris's charm and courage."(Company)"A story that traverses continents ... more
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The Circumcision of Women; A Strategy for Eradication - by Olayinka Koso-Thomas

£26.99 paperback (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780862327019 | ISBN 10: 0862327016

Dr Koso-Thomas shows that female circumcision is not confined to the Horn of Africa, or the Muslim areas of the continent. Her study of the practice in Sierra Leone demonstrates its important role in the traditional initiation of females into both w ... more
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