Fiction

Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o are the pre-eminent playwrights of West and East Africa respectively and their work has been hugely influential across the continent. This volume features directors' experiences of recent productions of their plays, the...

Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing's best collection of short stories, African Stories--a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer--is now back in print. This beautiful collection is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in...

The African American community of Wichita is as old as the city itself, dating back to early pioneers, cowboys, and business figures. Once relatively integrated, Wichita became more segregated as the 20th century unfolded. In response, African Americans...

People of African heritage have traveled to Monterey since the 1770s, when African Spaniard Alexo Nino, a ship's caulker, traveled with Fr. Junipero Serra to Monterey via the San Antonio. For centuries since Nino, black men and women migrated to the...

This wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant, painful, celebratory, and inspiring. The African American Experience is a one-of-a-kind and absolutely...

Jabarius and Tameesha have been collecting African American baby names for more than twenty years from all over the United States.The authors now live in Tennesee, but have lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Alabama, and Arizona. They love to...

Destined to become a classic in the tradition of the best-selling Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds and Erotique Noire/ Black Erotica. Afrekete gives collective voice to the tradition of black lesbian writing. In the vast and proliferating area of both...

Boetema suddenly develops the ability to astrally project to other worlds, unintentionally possessing the bodies of people light years away. Inotu, her inquisitive brother with a pension for trouble, finds himself on the run after he's caught...

She is everything he wants in a woman.He is nothing she wants in a man.The electric chemistry between them is hotter than anything Dex has ever created in the kitchen.Dex Sinclair is a globe-trotting chef who is filled with wanderlust, but from the...

The Adelsverein Trilogy, now combined in a single hardbound edition, is a saga of family and community loyalties, and the challenge of building a new life on the hostile frontier. They came from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the...

Bestselling author and SHEEN Magazine Literary Excellence Award-winner Porscha Sterling makes her Dafina Books debut with an urban romance perfect for readers who enjoy the sexy suspense of Niobia Bryant's Mistress series and the urban edge of Ashley...

Chronic drug addiction ain't just exclusive to the hood. There are plenty of dope fiends in the suburbs too. Just ask the mayor of Atlanta, the Honorable Josiah J. Bishop. His addiction to his wife, Mink, is just as powerful as her toxic love affair with...

In Honey's debut novel, a man must learn how to cope with his wife's heroine addiction while raising two daughters and being the mayor of Atlanta. Atlanta's mayor, The Honorable Josiah J. Bishop, has an addiction to his wife, Mink, that is just as...

Welcome to the life of the Prince brothers. Come feel what it's like to be Addicted to a Dirty South Thug. Khian Prince is a certified boss with the weight of the world on his shoulders. His job is to ensure that he and his brothers maintain their status...

Things have just gotten really ruthless in the streets of Detroit... After Cali's gruesome murder, Kairo and Delano are now on the hush to cover it up. They receive an unexpected visit from someone who was presumed dead months ago, Johnny, and his return...