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Pirogue eBook Series

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  • Imagine Africa

    by Mia Couto, Scholastique Mukasonga, Paulina Chiziane, Cedric Nunn, David Brookshaw ...
    Series Book 2 - Pirogue
    Imagine Africa and its theme of "Revolution" is introduced by Georges Lory who opens the collection with his essay, "Poets to your quills, Africa is taking off". Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, and visual art, Imagine Africa gives us a glimpse of a kaleidoscopic contemporary Africa. ... Read more

    $12.95 CAD

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  • Collected Poems

    by Chinua Achebe ...
    A collection of poetry spanning the full range of the African-born author's acclaimed career has been updated to include seven never-before-published works, as well as much of his early poetry that explores such themes as the African consciousness, the tragedy of Biafra, and the mysteries of human relationships. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Copper Woman

    And Other Poems

    by Afua Cooper ...
    Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision, dealing with such themes as rebirth (physical and symbolic), mythology, memory, bondage, blood, family, identities in flux, migration, politics and flights of fancy. The contents move back and forth between the past and the present, and project into the future, envisioning a new world/a new creation. The ... Read more

    $7.28 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where to Now?

    An Anthology of Lyrics and the Journey That Inspired Them

    by Moonga Mkandawire ...
    In this unconventional anthology, singer and song-writer, Moonga Mkandawire uses the lyrics of 32 songs to recount his decision to follow his dream of combining his musical and mathematical talents, defying a predictable career path. Taking the reader through his journey of self-discovery from his early-twenties, Moonga poetically details the struggles of a young person coming to grips with the ... Read more

    $6.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Laughing Dove and Other Poems

    by Vernon RL Head ...
    The laughing dove and other poems is a collection that celebrates the natural world and our delicate place at the very edge of wilderness. Vernon RL Head sees like a birdwatcher and his unique arrangements of words shape a wondrous fact: Nature waits in the everyday: The freshness of a pavement-city-tree; The smoothness of a rock in a stream of pain; The holes and hopes between the planted flowers ... Read more

    $8.18 CAD

  • Madman at Kilifi

    by Clifton Gachagua ...
    Series series African Poetry Book
    Clifton Gachagua’s collection Madman at Kilifi, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of cultures in flux, cybercommunication and the language of consumerism, polyglot politics and intrigue, sexual ambivalence and studied whimsy, and the mind of a sensitive, intelligent, and curious poet who stands in the midst of it all.Gachagua’s is a ... Read more

    $14.75 CAD

  • Mandela the Spear and Other Poems

    by Atukwei Okai ...
    The strength of Mandela the Spear and other Poems lies in Okaiís burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triumphs. Thus, not surprisingly, one encounters names like Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, to name a few. Okai has long established himself as one of the towering ... Read more

    $99.08 CAD

  • Gabriel Okara

    Collected Poems

    by Gabriel Okara ...
    Series series African Poetry Book
    Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is best known for The Fisherman’s Invocation (1978), The Dreamer, His Vision (2005), and for his early experimental novel, The Voice (1964).Arranged in six sections, Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems includes ... Read more

    $19.70 CAD

  • Beyond the Barbed Wire

    Selected Poems

    by Abdellatif Laabi ...
    Translated by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    Finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2020Winner of an English PEN AwardIntroduced by Jim Moore, with an interview by Christopher SchaeferBeyond the Barbed Wire is a selection of work by Morocco's greatest living poet. Abdellatif Laâbi's poetry and literary activism has inspired a generation of writers and thinkers, and it resulted in his decade-long imprisonment. This ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Journey into the Unknown

    by Reuben Phihlela ...
    This collection of poems were written in the mid 80's at the height of the struggle for freedom in South Africa. They merely reflect thoughts and feelings of a young man who was struggling to come to terms with the reality of his times. He pretty much was not sure what the future had in store for him. He was caught between following his dream of becoming a musician or an academic. Because of the ... Read more

    $6.70 CAD

  • Jewels of the Yoruba Song

    by Michael O'Banjo ...
    Based on his transcriptions and translations of the music of the most talented of Yoruba musicians, Michael Banjo has brought to life the thoughts and the idiosyncrasies of Yoruba society of southwest Nigeria. His unique volume of poems has never before been done by another writer. He brings alive music in a way never before encountered by anyone who's enjoyed those languid and urgent stirrings of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Don't Beat Your Children Or They'll Turn Out Like Me

    by Brad Bathgate, Brad BLUE Bathgate ...
    "Don't Beat Your Children Or They'll Turn Out Like Me," is a book of poems, Haikus, jokes and random thoughts that has captured Harlem living completely and not once did the author loose street creditability. The author (BLUE) has taken the ugliness of the ghetto and brought humor and beauty to the everyday experiences on the streets. There is a new movement that needs to be acknowledged and his ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD