{"title":"Stories from Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTales from the dark continent. This collection celebrates the richness, complexity, and brilliance of African voices and experiences. These are stories that deserve to be read.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-nuer-a-description-of-the-modes-of-livelihood-and-political-institutions-of-a-nilotic-people","title":"The Nuer: A Description of the Modes and Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People by E. E. Pritchard","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1940, this study has become one of the classic works in social anthropology. The Nuer of the Southern Sudan are predominantly a pastoral people, and the first part of the book describes their life as herdsmen, fishermen, and gardeners. Their economic life is related to the absence of chieftainship and their democratic sentiment. The second part of the book describes this political system which lacks government and is without legal institutions. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/245896.The_Nuer?from_search=true\u0026amp;from_srp=true\u0026amp;qid=4TAmAjqpvI\u0026amp;rank=1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"the-nuer-pritchard-reviews\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Books Barn","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":53015245586543,"sku":null,"price":800.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":53015245619311,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0712\/3078\/3599\/files\/The-Nuer-Pritchard-9.jpg?v=1777376589"},{"product_id":"say-youre-one-of-them","title":"Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of \"An Ex-Mas Feast\" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAkpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/2296567.Say_You_re_One_of_Them?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_22\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"say-you're-one-of-them-uwem-akpan-review\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Books Barn","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":53015249256559,"sku":null,"price":800.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":53015249289327,"sku":null,"price":1300.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0712\/3078\/3599\/files\/Uwem-Akpan.jpg?v=1777376586"},{"product_id":"web-of-lies","title":"Web of Lies by Beverley Naidoo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor Ages 8-12 Years\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey thought they had left danger behind in Nigeria. But the streets of London are not as safe as they had hoped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this powerful sequel to THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTH, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Jane Addams Book Award, one boy's struggles to fit in threatens to unravel  plans for the safe haven his family has come so far to find. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/593044.Web_of_Lies?from_search=true\u0026amp;from_srp=true\u0026amp;qid=ydOBb28vjF\u0026amp;rank=2\" title=\"web-of-lies-naidoo-reviews\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Books Barn","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":53015189291119,"sku":null,"price":800.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":53015189258351,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0712\/3078\/3599\/files\/Web-of-Lies-Beverley-Naidoo_c81cf203-f922-4cd3-8947-fa6a181a2a56.jpg?v=1777362254"},{"product_id":"the-other-side-of-truth-winner-of-the-2000-carnegie-medal","title":"The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor Ages 8-12 Years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2000 Carnegie Medal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwelve-year-old Sade's journalist father is a vocal critic of the corrupt military government in Nigeria. When Sade's mother is murdered, her family sees in bloody detail the violent risks that come with exposing the truth. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer father arranges for Sade and her younger brother to be smuggled to their uncle in London for safety. On the streets of London, the plans fall apart and they are abandoned, passed from foster home to foster home. They try to contact their uncle but he is missing. They then learn that their father  has escaped to London to find them—but he will be sent back to Nigeria, unless Sade can find a way to tell the world what happened to her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAwarded the 2000 Carnegie Medal and chosen by young readers as the recipient of England's prestigious Smarties Silver Medal, Beverly Naidoo's THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTH explores the issues of family, exile, and freedom with the same eloquence and stunning realism of her award-winning JOURNEY TO JO'BURG.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/129773.The_Other_Side_of_Truth?from_search=true\u0026amp;from_srp=true\u0026amp;qid=lNnyvOgE3P\u0026amp;rank=1\" title=\"the-other-side-of-truth-naidoo-reviews\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Books Barn","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":53015241031791,"sku":null,"price":799.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":53015240999023,"sku":null,"price":1299.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0712\/3078\/3599\/files\/Beverley-Naidoo-The-Other-Side-of-Truth.jpg?v=1777376590"},{"product_id":"americanah-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie","title":"Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie","description":"\u003cp\u003eIfemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post 9\/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous undocumented life in London. At once powerful and tender, \u003cem\u003eAmericanah\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable novel of race, love, and identity by the award-winning writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/15796700-americanah?from_search=true\u0026amp;from_srp=true\u0026amp;qid=VfP8iPrjqb\u0026amp;rank=1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"americanah-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-reviews\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Books Barn","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":53036932923503,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":53036932956271,"sku":null,"price":4000.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0712\/3078\/3599\/files\/Chimamanda-Ngozi-Edochie-Americanah-2.jpg?v=1777644759"},{"product_id":"long-walk-to-freedom-by-nelson-mandela","title":"Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, \u003cem\u003eLong Walk to Freedom \u003c\/em\u003ebrilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a story of hardship, resilience and ultimate triumph told with the clarity and eloquence of a born leader. \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/23400315-the-long-walk-to-freedom?from_search=true\u0026amp;from_srp=true\u0026amp;qid=iQbhxGVfR5\u0026amp;rank=1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"nelson-mandela-the-long-walk-to-freedom-reviews\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Books Barn","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":53036943769711,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":53036943802479,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0712\/3078\/3599\/files\/Nelson-Mandela-Long-Walk-to-Freedom-2.jpg?v=1777644762"},{"product_id":"left-to-tell-discovering-god-amidst-the-rwandan-genocide-by-imaculee-ilibagiza","title":"Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Genocide by Imaculee Ilibagiza","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eImmaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIncredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt was during those endless hours of unspeakable terror that Immaculee discovered the power of prayer, eventually shedding her fear of death and forging a profound and lasting relationship with God. She emerged from her bathroom hideout having discovered the meaning of truly unconditional love—a love so strong she was able seek out and forgive her family’s killers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe triumphant story of this remarkable young woman’s journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by fear, suffering, and loss.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/408615.Left_to_Tell?from_search=true\u0026amp;from_srp=true\u0026amp;qid=qnbG863Zck\u0026amp;rank=1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"discovering-god-amidst-the-rwandan-genocide-reviews\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Books Barn","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":53295702016111,"sku":null,"price":800.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":53295702048879,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"KES","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0712\/3078\/3599\/files\/left-to-tell-ilibagiza.jpg?v=1781611901"}],"url":"https:\/\/thebooksbarn.com\/collections\/african-books.oembed","provider":"The Books Barn","version":"1.0","type":"link"}