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THROUGH BLACK EYES: Journeys of A Black Artist To East Africa and Russia.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of Fax's trips first to African - to Uganda, Northern Sudan, Ethopia, Tanzania - and then to Moscow and the then Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. "In each of these exotic areas, so different in many respects, he was to find the history of oppression by colonialism, as it had occurred in similar ways among his own people at home. Everywhere he went the artist in Elton Fax recorded with beautiful drawings, even as the text did in words, what he saw with his own discerning eyes to produce a fascinating parts of the world." Illustrated with drawings by the author/artist. Index. x, 203 pp. ISBN: 0-396068421.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tears to dj, minor edgewear)
Book ID: 61477More details Price: $35.00 -
KINTU.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Oakland, CA: Transit Books, 2017. First edition - An award-winning debut - "The year is 1750. As he makes his way to the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom, Kintu Kidda unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. As the centuries pass, the tale moves down the bloodline, exploring the lives of four of Kintu Kidda's descendants. . . Blending Ganda oral tradition, myth, folktale and history, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has brought to life an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters to produce a powerful epic and a modern classic." First published in Kenya in 2014, winner of the Kwani Manuscript Prize, longlisted for the Etisalat Prize for African fiction. Introduction by Aaron Bady. viii, 443 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88058More details Price: $25.00 -
KAWAHA.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - R eissue of a book originally published in 1982 with a new introduction for this edition by the author. S I G N E D o n the t i t l e p a g e . A story of grand larceny set i n I d i A m i n ' s c o r r u p t U g a n d a . Map. xi, 475 pp plus afterword. ISBN: 0 - 8 9 2 9 6 - 5 3 3 - 9.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47054More details Price: $25.00