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Ernest N. Emenyonu

ERNEST N. EMENYONU is a professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint. A specialist in African Literature, he has taught African Literature in institutions of higher learning in Nigeria and the United States, and published extensively in the field. His other children’s books include a series, Bedtime Stories For African Children. He has also published a collection of short stories, Tales of Our Motherland. He is the Editor of African Literature Today.

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Modjaji Books, South Africa

Modjaji Books was started in 2007 by Colleen Higgs, it is an independent press that publishes the writings of Southern African women. Modjaji Books wants to fill a gap by providing an independent outlet for serious writing by women. “From poetry to biography to fiction, there will be an outlet for writing by women that takes itself – and its readers – seriously.”

Books published by Modjaji Books

At Least the Duck Survived

Margaret Clough

ISBN 9781920397852 | 50 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2011 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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The Bed Book of Short Stories

Edited by Lauri Kubuitsile, Joanne Hichens

ISBN 9781920397319 | 314 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2010 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Yewande Omotoso

ISBN 9781920397357 | 266 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2011 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Burnt Offering

Joan Metelerkamp

ISBN 9780980272949 | 96 pages | 210 x 148 mm | 2009 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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ISBN 9781920397272 | 62 pages | 203 x 133mm | 2011 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Difficult Gifts

ISBN 9781920397326 | 58 pages | 203 x 133mm | 2011 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Everyday Wife

Phillippa Yaa de Villiers

ISBN 9781920397050 | 94 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2010 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Fourth Child

ISBN 9780980272901 | 56 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2008 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Go Tell the Sun

ISBN 9781920397036 | 130 pages | 203 x 133mm | 2011 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Hemispheres

Inside a Stroke

ISBN 9781920397241 | 90 pages | 203 x 133mm | 2011 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Hester se Brood

Hester se Brood

ISBN 9780980272987 | 194 pages | 235 x 191 mm | B/W Illustrations | 2009 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Invisible Earthquake

A woman's journal through still birth

ISBN 9780980272932 | 90 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2009 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Lava Lamp Poems

ISBN 9781920397258 | 58 pages | 210mm x 148mm | 2010 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Life in Translation

Azila Talit Reisenberger

ISBN 9780980272918 | 66 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2008 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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A Lioness at My Heels

Robin Winckel-Mellish

ISBN 9781920397432 | 48 pages | 203 x 133mm | 2011 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Beverly Rycroft

ISBN 9781920397067 | 80 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2010 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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ISBN 9780980272970 | 58 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2009 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Ingrid Andersen

ISBN 9781920397074 | 72 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2010 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Please, Take Photographs

ISBN 9780980272956 | 82 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2009 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Reclaiming the L-Word

Sappho's Daughters out in Africa

Edited by Alleyn Diesel

ISBN 9781920397289 | 226 pages | 234 x 156 mm | B/W Illustrations | 2011 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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ISBN 9781920397197 | 50 pages | 210 x 148 mm | 2011 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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ISBN 9781920397388 | 274 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2011 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Strange Fruit

ISBN 9780980272963 | 58 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2009 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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These are the Lies I Told You

Kerry Hammerton

ISBN 9781920397227 | 76 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2011 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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The Thin Line

Arja Salafranca

ISBN 9781920397081 | 222 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2010 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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This Place I Call Home

Meg Vandermerwe

ISBN 9781920397029 | 148 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2010 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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Undisciplined Heart

ISBN 9781920397043 | 322 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2010 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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ISBN 9780980272925 | 320 pages | 234 x 156 mm | 2008 | Modjaji Books, South Africa | Paperback

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