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Derrière la DGSN, Yaoundé – Nlongkak
B.P. 14268 - Yaoundé
Cameroon
Tél: +237 677 39 62 80
www.editionsakomamba.com
Founded in 1995, Akoma Mba publishers is the oldest publishing house specialised in illustrated comic books in Central Africa. Their main objective is to promote Africa through innovative editorial content as well as African, universal values to young children. They have a catalogue of about a hundred titles, published in several languages (French, English, and local languages).
Akoma Mba distributes its books in Cameroon and internationally. Its authors come from Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, France, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Togo, amongst others. Initially part of the association AILE Cameroon, it was taken over in 2018 by Robert Nkouamou, a Cameroonian cultural entrepreneur aiming to support new talents for the development of readership on the continent.
Several books published by Akoma Mba were awarded internationally, including the International Library of Munich, UNICEF in Dakar, and IBBY International. Magoulina by Joël Eboueme Bognomo won the Honorary Prize for Youth Literature with the American publisher Boyds Mills Press.
Akoma Mba participates in international book fairs and events: Bologna in Italy, Montreuil and Paris in France, FIBDA in Algeria, Frankfurt in Germany, Casablanca in Morocco, Fildak in Dakar...
The publishing house organises a Youth Book Fair in the city of Yaoundé (SALIJEY) and recently launched an African Prize for Comics and the “Marie Wabbes” Grand Prize for Children’s Books, named after the Belgian writer who initiated the Akoma Mba project in the 1990s. It is directed since January 2020 by Ulrich Talla Wamba, writer, book and publishing professional.
Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/Ed.AkomaMba/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ed_AkomaMba
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ed.akomamba/
Mani LI (Cameroun), auteur ; Georges PONDY (Cameroun), illustrateur
Depuis la disparition de son père, Noah n’aime plus lire. Un jour, il est aspiré mystiquement au fond d’un livre qu’il avait donné à manger à son chien. C’est le début d’une belle aventure dans Il était une fois, le pays des contes de fées. Découvrez les aventures d’un petit garçon qui n’aime pas les livres, mais qui doit retrouver et sauver son père en parcourant plusieurs histoires dans le bouquin magique.
Illustrations : 2D réaliste
2021 - 68 pages - 21 X 29,7 cm - 10 000 XAF - ISBN : 9789956101917
Aude PERALTA EXCOFFIER (France), autrice ; Edji ONABEL (Cameroun), illustrateur
Ce matin-là, tout semble paisible. Pourtant, cette quiétude va bientôt être troublée. Le chef Tabot s’installe sereinement et improvise une visite aux parents de Yoaddan, Eseck et Muslimah. Chef autoritaire, il a déjà dix épouses. Ébloui par la beauté de Yoaddan, il se marie avec elle sans aucune épreuve. Mais la jeune femme ne l’aime pas et noue secrètement une relation amoureuse avec un autre. Que se passe-t-il ensuite ?
Illustrations : 2D très réaliste
Critique : https://frankfurtrights.com/Books/Details/the-magic-coconut-tree-19001831
2021 - 52 pages - 21 X 14 cm - 4 000 XAF - ISBN : 9789956101771
Simon de SAINT-DZOKOTOE (Togo), auteur ; Maryse MONTRON (France), illustratrice
La petite Ayélévi est très rusée. Elle gagne toujours le jeu “Qui trouvera la plus jolie fleur”. Cette situation intrigue son frère qui veut comprendre le secret de son succès permanent. Ayélévi est très sage. Le sera-t-elle encore longtemps ?
Illustrations : aquarelle
Critique : https://takamtikou.bnf.fr/bibliographies/notices/afrique/le-secret-d-ayelevi
2020 - 32 pages - 14,5 x 20 cm - 3 000 XAF - ISBN : 9789789561414
Contact : Ulrich TALLA WAMBA
Rotterdam
Netherlands
www.denabooks.com
Dena is publishing books whose authors are in exile, or books that were not allowed to be published in Iran due to censorship.
Despite the limited publication of the books, Dena as the only Persian-language bookseller in the Netherlands, plays a significant role in the availability of Persian books for Iranians living in the Netherlands.
Nasim KHAKSAR
This collection includes nineteen short stories written by Nasim Khaksar between 2001 and 2014.
The title of the book is taken from the name of one of the stories that Nasim wrote fourteen years after the massacre of political prisoners in 1967 in memory of the victims of this massacre.
Mehdi YAHYAWI
The collection of short stories “A Butterfly Under the Rain” written by Mehdi Yahyawi was published in the spring of 2019 by Dena Publishing in Rotterdam.
Dimitri VERHULST
Dimitri Verhulst presents the history of mankind in less than two hundred pages, in a big bang of language. From the moment we crawled out of the water and started walking on two legs to the years when we bombed each other to the other world. A story with a main character in which you will no doubt recognize yourself every now and then.
Contact : Reza CHAVOUSHI
Čechova 23
Praha 7 Bubeneč 170 00
Czech Republic
www.by-wo-men.com
The small independent wo-men publishing is oriented toward gender-focused art documentary books. The publishing house was established in 2012 by a literary documentarian Barbora Baronová to create books ambitious both in content and design. The main aim of wo-men publishing is to share high quality literary and photographic non-fiction projects created by Czech authors. Mostly, the books by wo-men include voices of marginalized people, such as women, seniors, people with disabilities, and cover non-mainstream topics, such as feminism, aging, activism, parenthood, and environment. The books published by wo-men are printed in low numbers (sometimes as limited editions) on high-quality ecological papers in local printing companies. Many books by wo-men were awarded in the Czech Republic, as well as abroad.
Barbora BARONOVÁ, Dita PEPE
The stylized artistic literary and photographic documentary project Intimacy opens up important personal and social issues in women’s lives, such as disability, prostitution, depression, cancer, and dying. Individuals are often unable to respond to these topics in direct confrontation other than with stereotypes and prejudices. Intimacy seeks to describe some habitual patterns of behaviour and demonstrate their real content through the stories of six specific women. The book-object contains one book of text and six photographic notebooks with flaps and coated embossed motifs. The book got the highest Czech award Magnesia Litera for the publishing achievement and received the 2nd place within Fine-press and Artist´s Books Category in The Most Beautiful Czech Books of 2015. The book was also shortlisted for the Les Prix du Livre – Prix Photo-Texte at Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles 2016 in France and at the 28th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2018 in the Czech Republic.
2015 - 588 pages - 17 X 24 cm - ISBN: 978-80-905239-3-7
Price: 698 CZK
Published in Czech only
Barbora BARONOVÁ; Dita PEPE
The publication Voices of Women: Australia brings twenty-two narratives of prominent Australian women artists, writers, filmmakers, activists, photographers, scientists, politicians, and journalists, exploring themes inherent in women regardless of their different cultures, such as their status, career options, and the expectations placed on them. The book is based on interviews recorded during Barbora’s research stay at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, in 2017. Among the people telling their stories is prominent feminist Anne Summers, who describes her own abortion as one of the moments that initiated her activism. Anthropology professor Diane Bell tells the story of a struggle for respect for women in science. Alison Whittaker’s story is the tale of a young Australian lesbian poet’s journey from rural communities to Harvard Law. Publisher Susan Hawthorne thematises her transition from an employee at the global publishing house Penguin to a publisher of non-mainstream titles. The story of Olga Horak and Halina Robinson reflects the topic of the Holocaust – while Olga survived five concentration camps, Halina was thrown over the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto and was on the run from the Nazis for eighteen months. Barbora Baronova and Dita Pepe’s documentary book on Australia is part of a free-form literary and photographic series, Voices of Women, in which the authors explore the lives of contemporary women from diverse parts of the world.
2021 - 522 pages - 17 X 24 cm - price: 1 390 CZK
Published in English and Czech
Dita PEPE et al.
Borders of Love is a photographic and literary book from internationally renowned Czech photographer Dita Pepe that in thirteen chapters investigates the borders of love, trauma as motivation to create art, and photography as therapy. In this publication, which is also the creative part of her doctoral thesis at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Dita combines an artistic approach with scientific research. She worked on the publication with many interesting artists and researchers as well as people who analyzed the topic from purely personal perspectives and experiences. Besides photos, the book contains dozens of texts in many forms – interviews, reports, personal diaries, letters, short stories, essays, passages from lectures, and specialized texts through which Dita together with invited guests look at various forms of love. These are interlaced with her photos – self-portraits, archival family photos, stylized portraits, photo collages, documentary photos, still lifes… The photographic part of the book typically involves an almost obsessive examination and repetition of motifs with the same form and content to strengthen the feeling of order and clarity the author would like in her life. The book is being published in a small printing of 700 in a Czech–English version as a cooperation between wo-men publishing and Tomas Bata University in Zlín.
2021 - 804 pages - 17 X 24 cm - ISBN: 978-80-907641-5-6
Price: 1 590 CZK
Published in English and Czech
Contact : Barbora BARONOVÁ
c/ Amparo 76
28012 Madrid
Spain
www.laovejaroja.es
It was chance combined with great effort that led to the launch of La Oveja Roja. As chance would have it, someone with no plans to work in the publishing industry found themselves in the possession of several previously unpublished books. He founded La Oveja Roja, located, as its name [the red sheep] might suggest, deep in the countryside, in a meadow at the foot of the Pyrenees. The founder was adamant about ensuring that culture was accessible to all children and not only to the upper classes. This sheep insisted on talking about politics and society even though no one had invited him to the table. Notable figures, of course, did not listen. But he continued anyway. From the Pyrenees he went to Madrid, where he found himself becoming a carpenter in order to open a bookshop. From that moment on, he has lived only for his obsessions, which now include storytelling, poetry, graphic novels, essays and even children’s books. His catalogue contains works of a variety of tones. Éric Hazan, Nathalie Quintane, Vincianne Despret, Brigitte Vasallo, Enrique Falcón and Antonio Orihuela are just some of the names who have become friends along the way. And the sheep, with his books, now finds himself surrounded by wooden bookshelves in a bookshop, and continues to think and dream about meadows and about books.
Contact : Alfonso SERRANO
United Kingdom
www.nogaam.com
Nogaam Publishing, based in London, uses crowdfunding to publish Iranian censored authors. Nogaam publishes books that could not be published inside Iran due to censorship as free e-books.
Nogaam supports and empowers Iranian authors, advocates freedom of speech, promotes Persian-language digital publishing and provides easy access to invaluable Farsi books. Nogaam is also the founder of ’Tehran Book Fair, Uncensored’ which is an annual book fair by independent Iranian publishers abroad.
Twitter/Instagram: @Nogaambooks
Listen the interview of Azadeh Parsapour, about the Tehran Book Fair, Uncensored (May 9, 2021)
James JOYCE; trad. Dr Akram PEDRAMNIA
This is for the first time that James Joyce’s masterpiece is being published in Persian uncensored. This project, translated and written by Dr Akram Pedramnia, is a combination of research and translation presented in six volumes supported by Literature Ireland.
Specifications of Vol.1 (to be published in 6 volumes)
2019 - 570 pages - ISBN: 978-1-909641-42-6 -
Hardcover/Paperback
16 short stories by 16 writers about the catastrophic events of the calendar year 1398 (2019-2020) in Iran. Mass protests over the rise of oil price in Iran and the brutal crackdown of the protests by the Iranian regime. Ukrainian Flight 752 was shot by Iran and all 176 passengers - mostly Iranians- and crew were killed, Covid-19, etc.
2021 - 130 pages - ISBN: 978-1-909641-59-4 -
Paperback
Karim POURHAMZAVI
Comprehending the rise of Jihadism and ISIS
The first ever original research work about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Persian by Karim Pourhamzavi.
First published in 2016 by Nogaam.
The second edition published in 2020.
166 pages - ISBN: 978-1-909641-50-1
Paperback
Contact : Azadeh PARSAPOUR
Av. Augusto Meyer 163/605
Porto Alegre (RS) - CEP 90550-110
Brazil
Tél: +55 51 3024-0787
www.dublinense.com.br
Dublinense is an independent publishing house focused mainly on literary fiction, with the vast majority of its list formed by contemporary fiction, a few very singular contemporary non-fiction narratives and essays and a small collection of psychoanalysis. Our focus is to present the best in contemporary Brazilian literary fiction along with relevant works that can present different cultures and singular approaches and points of view for the Brazilian readership. Our goal is to start conversations on relevant subjects through good literature. During our 12 years, our original titles have received important recognitions such as Prêmio Jabuti, Prêmio Açorianos, Prêmio da Biblioteca Nacional and are constantly shortlisted for other literary awards too. Our international titles were also distinguished with important awards such as Prêmio José Saramago, European Union Prize for Literature, among others.
Natália BORGES POLESSO
Vencedor do Prêmio Jabuti
Vencedor do Prêmio Açorianos
Vencedor do Prêmio AGES (Associação Gaúcha de Escritores)
Seria pouco dizer que os contos de Amora versam sobre relações homossexuais entre mulheres. Também estão aqui o maravilhamento, o estupor e o medo das descobertas. O encontro consigo mesmo, sobretudo quando ele ocorre fora dos padrões, pode trazer desafios ou tornar impossível seguir sem transformação. É necessário avançar, explorar o desconhecido, desestabilizar as estruturas para chegar, enfim, ao sossego de quem vive com honestidade.
2015 - 256 pages - ISBN: 9788561249564 - R$ 54,90 - Literatura brasileira / Contos
Cristina JUDAR
Ana e Joan. A primeira é diurna e contemporânea, bombardeada pelo consumismo e por pressões estéticas e comportamentais. A segunda é noturna, influenciada por noções de ancestralidade, ritos de passagem e intuições do inconsciente. Ambas estão prestes a completar dezoito anos e acompanhamos suas histórias em paralelo, mês a mês, até a data de seus aniversários. Mas não se engane: mais do que o relato da jornada de duas jovens mulheres, Elas marchavam sob o sol é um romance sobre violência, perseguição religiosa, perda de liberdade e direitos, além de ser um libelo sobre a necessidade dos ritos, dos sonhos e da ressignificação dos corpos, questionando papéis sociais através da linguagem vibrante e singular de sua autora.
2021 - 160 pages - ISBN: 978-65-5553-031-5 - R$ 44,90 - Literatura brasileira / Romance
Henrique SCHNEIDER
Vencedor do Prêmio Paraná de Literatura
Raul é um bancário dedicado, um cidadão de bem levando uma vida tranquila em junho de 1970: destina todas as suas energias ao trabalho e a política não lhe interessa. Até que um dia, em meio ao clima de euforia patriótica às vésperas da final da Copa do Mundo, ele é confundido com um militante, preso e atirado em uma cela para confessar algo que não sabe. A partir daí, o jogo vira, e ele passa a viver o que de mais terrível aconteceu no Brasil nos anos de chumbo.
2019 - 152 pages - ISBN: 9788561249700 - R$ 39,90 - Literatura brasileira / Romance
Contact : Gustavo FARAON
Zemoriya 25, bajo
20013 Donostia-San Sebastián
Spain
Tél: (+34) 943 292 349
www.editoreak.eus
Contact : Ana URRESTARAZU
Navarra
Spain
www.editargi.com/es
The Association of Independent Publishers of Navarre - Nafar Editore Independiente en Elkartea (Editargi) is made up of publishers who are not dependent on large groups or public institutions, and whose main economic activity is the publishing and sale of books. Their objectives include the promotion of books as a cultural medium with specific needs; the creation and strengthening of companies and industries in Navarre that work in the field of book creation, publishing, distribution and dissemination; the promotion of the implementation of policies to support books, their local industries, bibliodiversity and reading in general with the public authorities; and the defence and promotion of the cultural and linguistic diversity of Navarre.
Contact : Aritz OTAZU LUJANBIO
Egypt
www.daraltanweer.com
Dar Altanweer is a company with offices in Beirut, Cairo, and Tunis. Overall strategy is coordinated between the three offices. The company has been publishing philosophical and literary classics and contemporary works since 1982. In 2012 was sold to a group of seasoned publishers who partnered in restructuring and relaunching the company in each location.
Since 2012, Dar Altanweer has expanded its geographical and genre breadth and strengthened its quality and marketing depth. Select titles are printed in three countries thereby providing for more efficient distribution and marketing. Expanded genres include classical, modern, and contemporary literary fiction, commercial fiction, philosophy for beginners, self-help, popular science, sociology/political science and graphical novels.
Contact : Sherif Joseph RIZK
Syria
Tél: +00971557195187
marwan@mamdouhadwan.net
The Publishing house, founded in Damascus in (2005), was established in honour of the late Syrian writer Mamdouh Adwan (1941-2004), who wrote more than ninety publications in poetry, drama, novel and different translations. Our publishing house came as a realization of his dream to establish a publishing house that provides a platform for new writers and translators.
Hence, the publishing house is first and foremost dedicated to publishing distinct literary and intellectual books of new writers and translators whose works would enrich the Arabic library.
Drawing on its awareness of the importance of revitalizing the cultural life and raising awareness on the different forms of cultural achievements and their huge impact on the formation of intellectual awareness in Arab societies; the publishing house is keen to publish important Arab literary works which are no longer available in the markets, and to provide accurate translations and revised versions for books of international writers.
The publishing house ceased its operations between 2012 and 2014 due to the compelling circumstances witnessed by Syria. However, it resumed its work by the end of 2014, and currently has more than 250 titles including: poetry, drama, intellectual and literary studies, short stories, and novels of writers from different Arab countries, as well as translations from English, French, Spanish, Swedish, and German.
In Sharjah Book fair 2016 the publishing house was awarded as Best Arabic Publishing House 2016.
Khalifa Al KHUDER
Khalifa Al-Khader, winner of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press 2017, writes some scenes of fear in the details of his experience in ISIS prisons in the city of al-Bab, his escape from prison, and his return to him later after ISIS was expelled from the city.
Khalifa does not tell us about ISIS from outside, he stayed inside the monster, and went out to narrate some of what he saw, heard, and lived...
Khalifa Al KHUDER is a Syrian photographer, journalist and writer, winner of the Samir kassir Award in Opinion Article category 2017.
152 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-39-5
Fiction
Mamdouh ADWAN
The world of organized and random oppression that a person lives in this age, is a world that is neither suitable for man nor for the growth of his humanity. Rather, it is a world that cultivates the “animality” of man (i.e. turning him into an animal). The writer deals with this topic like a researcher, but with the mentality, the temperament and the style of a writer. He is not going to propose another theory or refute another.
Our perception of the human being that we should be is not impossible to achieve, even if it comes from a literary or artistic conception. But this perception makes us, “when we see the reality in which we live”, feel the size of our losses during our human journey, which are cumulative and continuous losses as long as the world of oppression and humiliation exists and continues. And we will end up becoming creatures of another type whose name was “man”, or aspired to be a human being, without changing form.
Mamdouh ADWAN was a prolific Syrian writer, poet, playwright and critic. He published his first collection of poetry in 1967 then he published 18 further collections. He has also published 2 novels, 25 plays, translated 23 books from English including the Iliad, the Odyssey and a biography of George Orwell. and Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis, he wrote a number of TV series. He wrote regularly on Arab current affairs, he also taught at the Advanced Institute for Theater in Damascus.
288 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-06-7
Non-fiction
Mamdouh AZZAM
After twenty years of work, Salem finishes his service in the gendarme’s cavalry and returns to his home and family in Deir al-Qarn, bringing with him the only companion who has stayed with him for all those years: his horse. Family members have mixed feelings towards this guest, who will now be part of the family. The storytelling chains take place between the five children and the mother, and as they rotate, they weave stories and build worlds. In this novel, Mamdouh Azzam writes, in a new and different way from his previous novels, a tale about a simple family living its tranquility and fear, its surrender and rejection, its peace and struggles, to move within us endless questions and reflections, while freedom writes in its broad sense the chapter of the end.
Mamdouh AZZAM is a Syrian novelist. His most celebrated and controversial novel is The Palace of Rain, a powerful and daring treatment of taboos in the conservative Druze religion and community. His novel Ascension to Death was translated into English and French. And was adapted into an acclaimed film in 1995.
256 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-75-3
Fiction
Contact : Marwan ADWAN
Braterska 19/6
53-015 Wrocław
Poland
Tél: (+48) 71 339 71 68
www.editionsformat.com
FORMAT is an independent publishing house that focuses on education, illustration quality and creation. Books are understood as beautiful objects and as reading spaces, as they position the reader in the story, sharpening their eyes, awakening their curiosity and graphic sensitivity.
Their ambition: expressing emotions, circulating ideas of diversity and difference, tolerance, going against the grain to break with prejudices and stereotypes, working particularly on typography, paper and format.
FORMAT publishing’s books must appeal to both children and adults. The condition is that everyone finds a place in this illustrated book adventure. FORMAT publishing mixes genres and authors: well-known contemporary authors, sometimes even internationally renowned, and more classical, but always with a view of reinterpreting!
Their first title in French (Un prince à la pâtisserie by Joanna Concejo and Marek Bienczyk) was released in September 2015. Their list already includes some 50 titles in Polish, of which 40% are adapted from French books. FORMATs’ books have been awarded many times by IBBY International Board of Books for Young People, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and the Polish Association of publishers, to name but a few...
Read here the interview with Dorota Hartwich, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (October 25, 2017).
Uri ORLEV ; Marta IGNERSKA (ill.)
Une petite grand-mère seule au monde arrive un soir au village ; elle a pour tout bagage des aiguilles à tricoter. Mais les portes ne s’ouvrent guère pour l’accueillir. Alors, sans se laisser abattre, maille à l’endroit, maille à l’envers, elle se crée tout un univers : des pantoufles, une bouilloire, un lit, une maison, une fille, un garçon... Les petits sont heureux auprès d’elle jusqu’à la rentrée scolaire : les enfants tricotés ne sont pas acceptés à l’école. Grand-mère Tricot, rebelle, s’en va défendre ses protégés devant les hommes de pouvoir. Hélas, rien n’y fait, au contraire : voilà qu’on cherche à l’exploiter ! Alors tant pis. Infatigable, elle se remet en chemin et s’en va tricoter ses rêves ailleurs.
Un proverbe yiddish dit : « Les rêves de beignets ne sont pas des beignets ». Mais Grand-Mère Tricot conteste cette sagesse supposée. Au contraire, nous pouvons réaliser, matérialiser, fabriquer nos rêves... Ce texte classique d’Uri Orlev (prix Hans Christian Andersen), aussi triste que gai, semble écrit sur mesure pour notre temps. D’un côté l’exclusion, le racisme, la bêtise politique ; de l’autre, la fantaisie, l’imagination, l’idéalisme. Un livre pour l’éternité, pour les enfants de tous âges. »
Suzie MORGENSTERN
Octobre 2016 - 30,4 X 21,6 cm - 16,90 € - ISBN : 978-83-614880-2-6
Marek BIENCZYK ; Joanna CONCEJO (ill.)
« Un délice graphique et littéraire, avec une ambiance unique » a déclaré le jury IBBY qui a accordé au livre le Grand Prix 2013. Le duo des auteurs – Marek Bienczyk (lauréat du prix Niké, équivalent polonais du Goncourt) et Joanna Concejo (le grand prix IBBY) – nous offrent un petit conte philosophique à l’humour léger, qui, dans sa forme avec le dialogue multicouche qui se joue entre le texte et les images, indépendantes, touche les questions fondamentales pour nous tous. Qu’on soit écolier ou retraité !
C’est surtout la question du bonheur et de sa fragilité qui est au centre de ce livre-accordéon qui s’étend sur plus de six mètres. Au recto de ce ruban plissé on retrouve le texte et les illustrations, au verso : un espace blanc, marqué avec les trèfles à quatre feuilles, qui laisse une place au flou, à l’inédit, à une nouvelle histoire. Livre-merveille. Livre-oeuvre d’art... Livre du bonheur.
Septembre 2015 - 18 X 14,7 cm - 24 € - ISBN : 978-83-614887-7-4
Wojciech WIDLAK ; Paweł PAWLAK (ill.)
If sometimes:
you are fed up with everyday life
you feel that you are missing something
you wish you could escape
you doubt the existence of love and friendship… and dwarfs
…this book is just for you.
An intriguing and rich story for young and old, in which fairy tale subtly intertwines with reality. The book consists of a small gallery of dwarfs’ portraits, drawn by the author with great craft and humour. However, the story runs far deeper, as the portraits reveal the secrets and characteristics of the dwarfs. A book that might have been taken from an old treasure chest, this is a gem that sparkles with gold.
A beautiful story in which the fairy tale world interweaves with the world hidden inside every one of us. It is a story for younger readers who will listen to it with wonder, dreaming of magical encounters, and those grown-up ones who can still picture the different colours of life – both sad and joyful.
2008 - 14 X 20,6 cm - 24 PLN - ISBN : 978-83-921483-9-5
Contact : Dorota HARTWICH
133 Cité Assemblée Ouakam
BP 5637 Dakar-Fann
Dakar, CP 10700
Senegal
Tél: (+221) 33 86 01 904
www.amalion.net
Since 2009 Amalion Publishing has established itself as a publisher of high quality and critically acclaimed non-fiction and literary works on Africa. As an independent academic publishing initiative based in Dakar, Senegal, we are driven by the mission to publish and disseminate innovative knowledge on Africa to strengthen the understanding of humanity. Our works strive to promote a broader understanding of Africa and its people by providing a platform for authors to express new, alternative and daring perspectives and views on people, places, events, and issues shaping our world.
Amalion Publishing targets a wider readership of scholars, academics, students, and other readers seeking to know more about their lives and societies through monographs, textbooks, and literary writing. It publishes primarily in English and in French, and is willing to consider initiatives and ideas to disseminate in Portuguese and other African languages with a potential for wider distribution.
Léonce NDIKUMANA, James K. BOYCE
Dans La dette odieuse de l’Afrique, Boyce et Ndikumana révèlent le fait choquant que, contrairement à la perception populaire comme quoi l’Afrique ponctionne les ressources financières de l’Occident, le continent est en fait un créancier net du reste du monde. Au cours des quatre dernières décennies, plus de $700 milliards ont fui les pays d’Afrique sub-saharienne. Toutefois, les actifs de l’Afrique détenus à l’étranger sont privés et cachés, tandis que ses dettes extérieures sont publiques, dus par les peuples africains à travers leurs gouvernements.
Ndikumana et Boyce montrent les liens intimes entre les prêts étrangers et la fuite des capitaux. Plus de la moitié de l’argent emprunté par les gouvernements africains dans les dernières décennies a fui dans la même année, une partie importante étant déposée dans des comptes privés dans les mêmes banques qui ont fourni les prêts. Entre temps, le service de la dette continue à drainer les ressources rares de l’Afrique, réduisant ainsi les fonds disponibles pour la santé publique et d’autres besoins de base. De façon provocatrice, les auteurs proposent que les gouvernements africains devraient répudier ces «dettes odieuses» dont leur peuple n’a tiré aucun avantage, et que la communauté internationale devrait aider dans cet effort. Un livre indispensable pour quiconque s’intéresse à l’Afrique, son avenir et ses relations avec l’Occident.
Léonce NDIKUMANA est professeur d’économie à l’Université du Massachusetts, Amherst, où il est Directeur du programme sur la politique de développement en Afrique.
James K. BOYCE est professeur d’économie à l’Université du Massachusetts, Amherst, aux Etats-Unis, où il dirige le programme sur le développement, la paix et l’environnement au Political Economy Research Institute.
2013 - 208 pages - 20,3 X 12,7 cm - $19.95 - £16.95 - €20 - CFA 12 500
ISBN : 978-2-35926-022-9 (PB)
ISBN : 978-2-35926-023-6 (Ebook)
Fatou Kandé SENGHOR
Wala Bok: une histoire orale du hip hop au Sénégal se souvient et narre les mémoires des générations de pratiquants du hip hop, des derniers précurseurs aux derniers arrivés, promoteurs, et des rares critiques sociaux intéressés par ce mouvement aux multiples facettes. Une ballade à travers l’histoire et la vie contemporaine dans la jungle urbaine et la vie dans les quartiers populaires. Les portraits artistiques et témoignages de ce courant motivé par la reconnaissance de la diversité culturelle et la quête d’un monde meilleur dévoilent une société hétéroclite qui tire les ficelles entre promotion artistique personnelle et engagement politique.
En interrogeant l’histoire du hip hop au Sénégal, on voit clairement que ses acteurs dès le départ se démarquent des politiques officielles et se mêlent de la gestion des affaires de la cité. Ils adhèrent à plusieurs agitations citoyennes, « Set Setal » des années 1980 et 1990, avec le combat hautement médiatisé du mouvement «en Marre» qui sera reconnu comme étant l’une des sentinelles essentielles ayant servi à écourter le projet monarchique d’un président octogénaire et contribué à installer la deuxième alternance politique au Sénégal en 2012. C’est un livre qui se veut témoin de son temps, telle une anthologie, mais en même temps un journal intime qui converse hip hop, religion, politique et avenir pour comprendre les enjeux de l’existence même de la culture hip hop, seul garde fou de nos sociétés.
Fatou Kandé SENGHOR a fondé une plateforme de recherche artistique nommée Waru Studio à Dakar qui fonctionne comme un laboratoire d’expérimentation, d’art, de science, d’écologie et de politique du changement ; un incubateur qui allie toutes ces sciences en utilisant les nouvelles technologies.
2015 - 304 pages - 23,4 X 15,6 cm - $35 - £25 - €30 - CFA 15 000
ISBN : 978-2-35926-015-1 (PB)
ISBN : 978-2-35926-049-6 (Ebook)
Stephen Adebanji AKINTOYE
A History of the Yoruba People is an audacious comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. In this commendable book, S. Adebanji Akintoye deploys four decades of historiography research with current interpretation and analyses to present the most complete and authoritative volume on the Yoruba to date. This exceptionally lucid account gathers and imparts a wealth of research and discourses on Yoruba studies for a wider group of readership than ever before. Very few attempts have tried to grapple fully with the historical foundations and development of a group that has contributed to shaping the way African communities are analysed from prehistoric to modern times.
Professor S. Adebanji Akintoye has been in the front line of African and Yoruba history studies for four decades and was formerly Director of the Institute of African Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. Akintoye has taught in universities in Nigeria and the United States and written three books, chapters in many joint books, and several articles in scholarly journals.
“A wondrous achievement, a profound pioneering breakthrough, a reminder to New World historians of what ‘proper history’ is all about – a recount which draws the full landed and spiritual portrait of a people from its roots up – A History of the Yoruba People is yet another superlative work of brilliant chronicling and persuasive interpretation by an outstanding scholar and historiographer of Africa." Prof. Michael Vickers, author of Phantom Trail: Discovering Ancient America (2005).
2010 - 512 pages - 23,4 X 15,6 cm - $65 - £40 - €48 - CFA 25 000
ISBN : 978-2-35926-005-2 (HB)
ISBN : 978-2-35926-027-4 (Ebook)
Contact : Sulaiman ADEBOWALE
Remera
B.P. 4281
Kigali
Rwanda
Tél: (+250) 788 422 660
https://www.instagram.com/bakameeditions/
Bakame Editions is an independent non-profit publishing house specialising in the production of quality literature for children and youth. The texts relate to Rwandan culture and are written in Kinyarwanda, the country’s language. Since 2011, some selected titles have been translated into French and English.
From its creation in 1995 to 2016, Bakame Editions published 170 books, including 12 textbooks, representing a total of more than one million copies.
Agnès UKUNDAMALIYA ; Roberta MILANESI ;
Titre original : Akajangwe Buroho
Traduction : Agnès Gyr et Agnès Girard
Dans la ferme de Nyiramana, le petit chat Bouroho trouve qu’être chat est ennuyeux et veut changer de vie.
2016 - 28 pages - 21 x 21 cm - 7 € - ISBN : 978-99977-701-5-8
Livre existant en français, kinyarwanda et anglais.
Denyse UMUHUZA ; Capucine MAZILLE ; Agnès GYR (trad.)
Titre original : Uruhimbi rwa Nyanka
Le lièvre Bakame raconte à tous les animaux de la forêt que le zèbre est parti chercher la magie de la puissance chez la belle Nyanka. Cela inquiète le lion qui décide d’aller tout de suite chez Nyanka. Son ami l’hippopotame l’accompagne dans son voyage. Surpris de ce qu’ils ont vu et entendu le lion et son ami l’hippopotame reviennent sans tarder raconter le secret révélé par la magicienne Nyanka.
2016 - 28 pages - 30 x 23 cm - 18 € - ISBN : 978-99977-701-8-9
Livre existant en français, kinyarwanda et anglais
Roberta Milanesi ; équipe Bakame (texte et traduction)
Titre original : Uruhimbi rwa Nyanka
Kaneza aime observer la nature, il y découvre beaucoup de choses.
2014 - 16 pages - 21 x 21 cm - 7 euros (prix Europe)
Livre existant également en kinyarwanda et en anglais
Contact : Éric DUSABIMANA
Lot VZ37 Andafiavaratra
Antananarivo 101
Madagascar
www.dodovole.blogspot.com
Created by an association of artists, Dodovole publishing has the avowed mission of defending the endangered cultures and marginalised minorities of the southwest of the Indian Ocean. In order to promote regional languages, we have from the onset published in French and Reunionese Creole, and shortly after in Malagasy and regional Malagasy. By imagining beautiful printed objects, we want to give visibility to visual artists in the area: a writer is asked to create a children’s book based on the work of a fine artist or photographer. This is the cardboard collection, which aims to bring art in the hands of the youth.
The richness of the corpus of regional folktales gave birth to the collection “Dodo bonimenteur” (“peddler”): Madagascan and French tales are bilingual and illustrated by schoolchildren as part of educational exchange programmes. A collection of French-language novels for adults completes the list under the editorial line: Madagascar seen from the inside.
Si le dodo avait eu des ailes, il n’aurait pas disparu. Dodo vole donne des ailes aux enfants : des livres pour leur permettre de grandir et de s’évader.
Read here the interview with Sophie Bazin and Johary Ravaloson, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (September 15, 2017).
Read here the interview with Sophie Bazin, published by Perluète, the literary review of Normandie Livre et Lecture (November 2021).
Laurent BABITY ; Johary RAVALOSON
Mary-des-ailes (dir. ; illustrations)
Un conte traditionnel de Madagascar très répandu sur les côtes, où l’on doit respecter le tabou, sous peine de voir s’envoler les richesses.
Décembre 2016 - 32 pages - 21 X 30 cm - 12 € - ISBN : 979-1090103337
Album à l’italienne, couverture cartonnée
Bilingue français et malgache betsimisaraka
Johary RAVALOSON ; Sophie BAZIN (illustration couverture)
Johary Ravaloson repart en brousse, sur les traces des Dahalos, les voleurs de zébus qui défraient la chronique à Madagascar. Entre fatalité heureuse et tragique liberté, cette fantaisie nous transporte au-delà de La porte du Sud (Prix de l’océan Indien 1999). Les graines du sikid racontent. Le milan vole. Tibaar court sur le sol rouge et nu. Les graines du sikid racontent. Papang meurt. Tibaar court vers son destin défendu. Un roman tranchant comme l’irruption de la modernité sur les terres ancestrales.
Mars 2016 - 192 pages - 22 X 11 cm - 12 € - ISBN : 979-1090103283
Roman pour adolescents-adultes
Anny GRONDIN ; Griotte (illustrations)
Un conte écrit en créole réunionnais par la conteuse Anny Grondin, à partir de figures de la mythologie malgache, les Zavavirano, les filles des eaux. Griotte est porteuse elle aussi de cette double culture. Ses peintures débordent de motifs et de portraits féminins, elles sont à l’origine de la création de cet album.
Décembre 2016 - 16 pages - 22 x 22 cm - 9 € - ISBN : 979-1090103290
Album jeunesse, conte
Contact : Sophie BAZIN
Proximité publishing has been founded in 2002 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, with the aim of bringing the book and publishing to local populations. Two things motivated the creation of this initiative: the difficulty for young authors to be locally published on the one hand, and the desire to promote the circulation of local and foreign publications at an affordable price on the other hand. In its early years, Proximité published many young authors, most of them working on their first manuscript, at the same time as they worked towards better visibility for foreign literatures through co-publishing projects. In 2006, Proximité joined forces with other structures by becoming a collection publishing novels and short stories under the umbrella Ifrikiya publishing. Between 2006 and 2015, the collection has then published a dozen of young authors annually. Since 2015, Proximité has regained its autonomy, and is reinventing itself as a publishing house, working in different genres: novel and short stories, essays and biographies, children’s books and comics.
Read here the interview with François Nkémé, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (April 4, 2017).
Read the interview with François Nkémé published by Jeune Afrique on April, 26, 2021.
Badiadji HORRÉTOWDO
C’est l’ère de la révolution industrielle. La république de Bibérossa a besoin de matières premières et de nouveaux débouchés au moment où elle sort affaiblie d’une guerre qui la voit perdre l’essentiel de son empire colonial outre-eaux. Le continent noir devient soudain un enjeu. L’immense territoire de Walinga sera la toute nouvelle cible.
Malgré sa supériorité technique, la grande armée de Bibérossa se heurtera contre toute attente à la farouche résistance des indigènes de Djenkana affûtés dans l’art guerrier.
Le Prince de Djenkana revisite l’épopée coloniale de l’Afrique subsaharienne et engage la responsabilité de toutes les parties impliquées dans la destinée d’un continent encore en quête de repères.
2010 - 340 pages - 6000 FCFA / 12 euros - ISBN : 9956 429 000316
Djaïli AMADOU AMAL
Livre traduit en arabe et coédité par les éditeurs du réseau arabophone de l’Alliance, avec le soutien de la fondation Prince Claus, récompensant un flux de traduction rare et favorisant la diffusion des œuvres d’un continent à un autre.
« Nous passons notre vie à souffrir ! Souffrir pour faire plaisir à nos pères, puis à nos maris, puis à nos enfants. Nous passons notre vie à penser aux autres quand personne ne pense jamais à nous. Nous passons notre vie pour les autres car en réalité nous n’avons même pas de vie.
Oui c’est pathétique. Un seul mot pour lui à prononcer : Je te répudie, et l’on se rend soudain compte que l’on n’a même pas un chez-soi. On a beau construire ensemble, tout est à lui. Nous ne sommes rien, nous ne valons rien, nous n’avons rien… »
2010 - 140 pages - 13 x 20 cm - 4000 FCFA - ISBN : 9956 429 000231
Ebenezer NJOH MOUELLE
Le lecteur tient entre ses mains l’essentiel des échanges que le philosophe Njoh Mouelle a entretenus avec les visiteurs de son site sur son engagement en politique, la question de la philosophie africaine, sur la mondialisation et les rapports Nord-Sud, la religion, les croyances , Dieu, sans oublier évidemment les nombreux éclaircissements qu’il a eu à donner pour la compréhension de son essai sur la signification humaine du développement intitulé De la médiocrité à l’excellence. A propos de messages qui pouvaient fâcher, Njoh Mouelle écrit dans son avant-propos: « J’en ai intégré deux ou trois que Félix Tatla Mbetbo avait cru bon laisser de côté, peut-être à cause de ce qu’il considérait comme leur irrévérence ; je les ai intégrés car les réponses données sont tout aussi importantes que les questions posées».
2015 - 340 pages - 5000 FCFA/ 10 euros - ISBN : 9956 429 000224
Contact : François NKÉMÉ
Rua Silva Carvalho, n.º 152 - 2.º
1250 - 257 Lisboa
Portugal
Tél: (+351) 21 3244170
www.orfeunegro.org
Orfeu Negro is a Lisbon-based independent publishing house. Its catalog focuses on contemporary art essays and picture books.
Founded in 2007, Orfeu Negro is now a main reference concerning books on performance, dance, cinema and arts in general, promoting the works of Jacques Rancière, RoseLee Goldberg, Laurence Louppe, François Truffaut and Gilles Deleuze, among others.
Its children’s books series, “Orfeu Mini”, offers excellence in illustrated content and detail design. Featuring award-winning artists such as Oliver Jeffers, Peter Brown, Catarina Sobral and Benjamin Chaud, “Orfeu Mini” brings the best of storytelling and illustrating to its readers around the world.
“Casimiro”, its most recent series of illustrated books for adults, is a collection of provocative works aiming at mature and extravagant people. It features authors such as Brazilian Hilda Hilst and Portuguese illustrator André da Loba, the perfect match for satire and obscenity.
Text: Hilda HILST
Illustrations: André DA LOBA
OBSCÉNICA is an anthology of erotic and satirical writings by Hilda Hilst, luxuriously illustrated by the talented and internationally acclaimed André da Loba.
Inspired by the metaphysical pornography of one of the most praised Brazilian writers of the 20th century, André da Loba has created a set of ravishing images. A feast for all senses.
96 pages - 23 x 33 cm - Paperback - 21€
ISBN: 978-989-8327-38-3
CASIMIRO COLLECTION – Illustrated Books for Exquisite & Flamboyant People
RoseLee GOLDBERG
Translation: Jefferson Luiz CAMARGO & Rui LOPES
RoseLee Goldberg explores contemporary artists’ approaches to politics, tradition, social engagement, and the art world itself, while evaluating the changing status of performance and its ever-increasing relevance to artists and audiences. Featuring recent work by leading performance artists such as Marina Abramovic, Walid Raad, Francis Alys, Pierre Huyghe, Tino Sehgal, and Sharon Hayes, the book covers a century of the medium.
This pioneering book has now been expanded with a new chapter that brings it into the second decade of the twenty-first century, mapping the global rise of performance to the present day.
336 pages - 17 x 21 cm - Paperback - 23€
ISBN: 978-989-95565-0-8
Catarina SOBRAL
My grandad used to have a clock shop. Now he has a lot of free time. Mr. Wright is not a watchmaker (though he always has one eye on the time) and he never wastes a minute.
A small format book on modern times, sprinkled generously with artistic references from Jacques Tati, the French director, to Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese poet.
40 pages - 19 x 19 cm - Hardcover - 12€
ISBN: 978-989-8327-32-1
ORFEU MINI COLLECTION – Illustrated Children’s Books
Contact : Carla OLIVEIRA
11, Slaveykov Sq,
Sofia 1000
Bulgaria
Tél: +359 898566238
www.kx-publishing.org
For more than 20 years now, we have been publishing books in the humanities and social sciences, and lately some titles in literature that are connected to the humanities.
We are a small-sized independent publishing company, and our renown is based on the more than 220 titles we have published – some of them exemplary pieces, others among the most provocative titles in the humanities (most of them translations). Our close working relationship with professors from four of the leading Bulgarian universities ensures the high quality of our products.
We have become recognised as a “publisher with a philosophy”. Supporting a pluralist and local cultural ambiance has always been our publishing ideal. We also experiment – via joint projects with other institutions or individuals – on the borders between cultural fields (e.g. publishing and theater, publishing and digital arts).
We are also the initiator and founder of a small organization: Bulgarian Society of Publishers in Humanities (BSPH).
Read here the interview with Antoinette Koleva, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (January 2, 2017).
Hartmut ROSA
Translation: Svetla MARINOVA
Hartmut Rosa (born 1955) is one of the most promising nowadays sociologists and social philosophers, and most of the academics agree his theories are just the “next step” in the brilliant tradition of the German Frankfurt School. The book has been announced to be a new stage of the critical social theory. In this new version it is based on the changing temporal structures of society and their ‘promise’ to solve the crises of the contemporary society toward a newly conceived “good life”.
2015 - 590 pages - 20 cm X 14 cm - ISBN: 978 954 587 194 8
Design: Yana LEVIEVA
Series: “Varius”
Georg SIMMEL
Translation: Theodora KARAMELSKA
Georg Simmel (1858-1918), a notorious German philosopher and sociologist of culture, has prodigiously influenced establishing the subjects of sociology as an university discipline. Our original collection of texts consists in essays in sociology of culture. This is namely in these “small sociological forms” that Simmel reaches to a brilliant (incl. in its literary style) representation of some aspects of his diagnosis of modernity. Simmel is presenting here a sort of „snapshots sub specie aeternitatis“ in order to manifest that the „sociological objective” is able to catch out social phenomena as “lie”, “fashion”, “gratitude”, “faithfulness”, etc. – ones that construct the life of the society in its dimensions of intelligibility and mysteriousness.
2014 - 268 pages - 20 cm X 13 cm - ISBN: 978 954 587 185 6
Design: Yana LEVIEVA
Series: “Varius”
Robert WALSER; Giorgio AGAMBEN
Translation: Maria DOBREVSKA
This is the chef-d-oeuvre of the prose of Robert Walser (1878-1956) – a very sophisticated and incredibly fine, even fragile piece of text of an author who appeared to be the favourite one of genius like W. Benjamin, F. Kafka, H. Hesse. Our edition is unique because of including also a brilliant piece of text by one of the most famous nowadays philosophers, Giorgio Agamben.
2014 - 126 pages - 20 cm X 13 cm - ISBN: 978 954 587 179 5
Design: Yana LEVIEVA
Series: “Transversalia”
Contact : Antoinette KOLEVA
202 bis, boulevard du 13 janvier
BP 3601
Lomé
Togo
Tél: (+228) 22 25 87 55 / (+228) 90 30 55 79
https://www.facebook.com/bdafricaine/
AGO Media is a team of young writers and illustrators brought together by Koffivi ASSEM and KanAd for the production and distribution of comics and animated films. AGO Media is composed of a publishing house, a communication agency and a production and distribution company for books and films.
Lomé-based AGO publishing wants to make up for the lack of publishing houses specialized in children’s books and comics in Africa.
Before the official foundation of the company in 2011, AGO started with the publication of fanzines: “AGO fiction” and “AGO drama”. This is how the company’s strategy was defined: to fund the publishing wing through the communication agency, to diversify the revenues by venturing into multimedia and cinema and especially to create an authentic distribution circuit.
To read:
KANAD
Au commencement tous les animaux vivaient tous dans le même village, tous les hommes dans un autre. Avec Ziguidi, un enfant prodige, tout cela va changer. Le livre contient aussi un abécédaire sur les animaux.
2012 - 31 pages - 21 X 21 cm - 6 € - ISBN : 979-10-90810-03-7
Collection “Le petit griot”
Koffivi ASSEM & KANAD
À la suite du terrible tremblement de terre qui ébranle Haïti on 2010, un enfant de rue, habitué à se débrouiller, décide de prendre soin de deux orphelins. Mais c’est au moment où il arrive à obtenir leur confiance et affection, qu’il est enlevé. Haïti mon amour est le premier tome des aventures de P’tit Filou.
2012 - 42 pages - 21 X 29,7 cm - 10 € - ISBN : 979-10-90810-00-6
Collection “BD Junior”
Joël ADOTEVI, KANAD, Gilka, Koffivi ASSEM, Anani ACCOH, Adomayakpo Daté PAPI
Six récits pour faire voyager petits et grands dans l’histoire, les imaginaires de l’Afrique. Dans ce premier tome, visitez le Nigéria, le Togo, le Bénin, le Ghana et le Mali, pour découvrir des cosmogonies, des épopées, des légendes urbaines et des faits ou personnages historiques comme Shango, Sogolon la femme buffle, le roi Agokoli, les amazones du Dahomey et les terribles Ablafo.
2015 - 48 pages - 10 € -
Collection “Afrique en BD”
Contact : Koffivi ASSEM
Responsable : KanAd
401 Richmond Street West, #277
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
Canada
Tél: +(416) 535-9914
www.btlbooks.com
Between the Lines (BTL) was established in 1977 and is a fiercely independent small press. At BTL we remain committed to our original mandate: to publish Canadian-authored non-fiction on a broad range of social and cultural issues from a progressive perspective. Our corresponding mission is to provide high quality resources that promote equitable social change. We specialize in informative, non-fiction books on politics and public policy, social issues, Canadian and world history, international development, Indigenous issues, gender/sexuality, critical race issues, labour and work, environment, and media. BTL books amplify the voices that often go unheard in the mainstream and challenge our readers to think differently. Our Editorial Committee makes publishing decisions democratically by consensus.
Between the Lines asks people to read critically, to think about the world differently, and not to get stuck in factional party lines.
Read here the interview with Amanda Crocker, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (January 16, 2018).
David AUSTIN
In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 the Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean–people like C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Rocky Jones, and Walter Rodney. Within months of the Congress, a Black-led protest at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) exploded on the front pages of newspapers across the country–raising state security fears about Montreal as the new hotbed of international Black radical politics.
Fear of a Black Nation won the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize in Caribbean Literature in English or Creole and was a silver medalist in the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards - Best Regional Non-Fiction (Canada-East).
2013; 256 pages; 152 x 228 mm;
ISBN (Paperback): 9781771130103 | $34.95 CAD
ISBN (Digital): 9781771130110 | $23.95 CAD
Stephen D’ARCY
“What we must see,” Martin Luther King once insisted, “is that a riot is the language of the unheard.” In this new era of global protest and popular revolt, Languages of the Unheard draws on King’s insight to address a timely and controversial topic: the ethics and politics of militant resistance.
Using vivid examples from the history of militancy—including armed actions by Weatherman and the Red Brigades, the LA Riots, the Zapatista uprising, the Mohawk land defence at Kanesatake, the Black Blocs at summit protests, the occupations of Tahrir Square and Zuccotti Park, the Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz, the Quebec Student Strike, and many more—this book will be of interest to democratic theorists and moral philosophers, and practically useful for protest militants attempting to grapple with the moral ambiguities and political dilemmas unique to their distinctive position.
Stephen D’Arcy is an associate professor of philosophy at Huron University College, Western University. A long-time social activist and protest organizer, he teaches and writes about democratic theory and practical ethics.
2013; 232 pages; 152 x 228 mm;
ISBN (Paperback): 9781771131063 | $24.95 CAD
ISBN (Digital): 9781771131070 | $17.50 CAD
Karen MESSING
In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the workers and their families, Messing contacted senior colleagues but they wouldn’t help. Neither the refinery company nor the scientific community was interested in the scary results of her chromosome studies.
Over the next decades Messing encountered many more cases of workers around the world—factory workers, cleaners, checkout clerks, bank tellers, food servers, nurses, teachers—suffering and in pain without any help from the very scientists and occupational health experts whose work was supposed to make their lives easier. Arguing that rules for scientific practice can make it hard to see what really makes workers sick, in Pain and Prejudice Messing tells the story of how she went from looking at test tubes to listening to workers.
Karen Messing is an award-winning (including a Governor General of Canada award and YWCA (Montreal) Women of Distinction) and internationally recognized expert on occupational health. She is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific articles and the book One-eyed Science: Occupational Health and Working Women. She is also the editor of Integrating Gender in Ergonomic Analysis, which has been translated into six languages.
2014; 168 pages; 152 x 228 mm;
ISBN (Paperback): 9781771131476 | $24.95 CAD
ISBN (Digital): 9781771131483 | $17.50 CAD
Contact : Amanda CROCKER
Éditions Papyrus Afrique, founded and directed by Seydou Nourou Ndiaye, is a Francophone publishing house, publishing mainly in African languages. Its mission is the development of modern literature in national languages. Since its creation in 1996, Papyrus has published more than 130 books published in West African languages. Having a large readership in the region and in the European and US diasporas, Éditions Papyrus Afrique also publishes a monthly newsletter in Wolof and Pulaar Lasli/ Njelbean.
Éditions Papyrus Afrique were the recipients of the Alioune Diop Prize for the Promotion of Publishing in Africa in 2002. They were also the first to be awarded the National Prize for the Promotion of Publishing in Africa in Senegal, in 2005.
Read: “Notre objectif est d’arriver à une coordination entre éditions africaines”, interview with Seydou Nourou Ndiaye, Liberté Algérie, 13 November, 2019
Léopold Sédar SENGHOR ; Wally FAYE (trad.)
A Pind Seenoor est une revue explicative et panoramique des poèmes de Senghor, avec en annexe leur traduction intégrale en sérère, langue maternelle de l’auteur. L’analyste et traducteur Wally Faye, ingénieur informaticien de formation, a noué une relation de profonde complicité avec Senghor, qu’il a connu de son vivant. Cette belle traduction en sérère a l’avantage de faire revenir le poète auprès des siens. Parmi les poèmes traduits se trouve Chants d’ombres, Hosties noires et Éthiopiques.
Décembre 2014 ; 164 pages ; 13,5 x 21 cm ; ISBN : 978-2-914135-23-8
Abdullaye JAH
Booy Pullo campe la déchéance d’un jeune paysan qui quitte son village pour aller en France. Il passe par Dakar, s’y enlise, se confronte aux difficultés et au sida. Le roman nous donne une photographie saisissante, de l’intérieur des mégapoles africaines. Booy Pullo est d’abord un roman d’espoir qui invite la jeunesse rurale africaine à se battre sur place et à servir son pays.
Abdullaye JAH, enseignant et journaliste, a choisi de s’installer dans son village natal. Il y dirige une radio communautaire et se consacre à l’écriture.
Décembre 2014 ; 110 pages ; 13,5 x 21 cm ; ISBN : 978-2-914135-21-4
Professeur Aboubacry MOUSSA LAM
La connaissance est le personnage central de ce roman en pulaar dont la portée équivaut à une œuvre de recherche classique.
Le noir a pendant longtemps fait l’objet d’un regard peu valorisant. Ce sort va pousser Ganndal (la connaissance) a démêler l’écheveau. Il va faire découvrir au noir qu’il est à l’origine des premières conquêtes : État, écriture, religion… Alors, les échafaudages, laborieusement construits contre lui autour des questions telles que celle de la place de la femme et celle de l’enfant, les droits de l’individu au regard de ceux du groupe, tombent.
Ce roman est un raccourci extraordinaire qui permet d’accéder à certains aspects de l’histoire de l’humanité pour tout lecteur capable de lire la langue pulaar dans le texte. Ce roman est retenu pour être traduit en français et dans d’autres langues africaines.
Son auteur, le Professeur Aboubacry MOUSSA LAM, est professeur titulaire à l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar. Cet égyptologue qui a été l’assistant de feu Cheikh Anta DIOP en est à son troisième ouvrage édité aux Éditions Papyrus Afrique.
208 pages ; 13 X 21 cm ; ISBN : 978-2-914135-13-9
Contact : Seydou Nourou NDIAYE
International Alliance
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