Translations for books by Anni Domingo, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Makenzy Orcel, and Shingai Njeri Kigunda are available for your reading pleasure.
Book: The Emperor
Original Title: L’Empereur
Author: Makenzy Orcel
Translator: Nathan H. Dize.
Publisher: Seagull Books
Publishing Date: May 2024
Language: French to English
Where to Find it: Click here.
Having committed the irreparable, a man waits in his room for someone to come and get him. His past resonates within him like a drum. This zombie youth, under the terrifying influence of a voodoo master. These alienating blades used to deliver newspapers to the cutthroats of Port-au-Prince.
It’s for her, the woman on the bus, that he has blood on his hands, for the one he loved. A hope like a dream too quickly dissipated.
Book: Rompendo as Correntes do Maafa
Original Title: Breaking the Maafa Chain
Author: Anni Domingo
Translator: Gabriela Araújo
Publisher: Alta Novel
Publishing Date: November 30, 2023
Language: English to Portuguese
Where to Find it: Livraria Da Travessa, Amazon
Breaking the Maafa Chain
A richly imagined story of two sisters’ struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century as their paths diverge in the middle passage—one to the court of Queen Victoria, the other to an American plantation.
Salimatu and her sister Fatmata are captured, sold to slavers, renamed and split apart. Forced to change their names to Sarah and Faith, they end up on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Faith is taken to America, where slavery is still legal and she is stripped of all rights. Sarah ends up in a Victorian England and as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria. Can the two sisters reclaim their freedom and identity in a world that is trying to break them down? Will these once inseparable sisters survive without each other? And if they do find each other again, will they find the other changed beyond recognition?
Based on the true story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Breaking the Maafa Chain is by turns epic and intimate and will take the readers on a journey of loss, survival, and hope.
Book: Ecco come continuare a vivere
Original Title: This is How to Stay Alive
Author: Shingai Njeri Kigunda
Translator: Giulia Lenti
Publisher: Zona 42 Press
Publishing Date: October 18, 2023
Language: English to Italian
Where to Find it: Click here.
In & This is How to Stay Alive by Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Nyokabi’s world unravels after her brother Baraka’s death by suicide. When an eccentric auntie gives Nyokabi a potion that sends her back in time to when Baraka was still alive, it becomes her only goal to keep him that way. Nyokabi learns that storytellers may be the carriers of time, but defying the past comes with its own repercussions.
Book: Peponi
Original Title: Paradise
Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Translator: Dr Ida Hadjivayanis
Publisher: Mkuki na Nyota
Publishing Date: October 25, 2022
Language: English to Kiswahili
Where to Find it: African Books Collective.
Mzaliwa wa Afrika ya Mashariki, Yusuf anaondoka kwao kwa ghafla akiwa na umri wa miaka kumi na mbili. Haimjii hata kwa sekunde moja, kwamba atakuwa mbali na wazazi wake kwa muda mrefu, na wala hafikirii kuuliza atarudi lini au kwa nini safari iliandaliwa kwa ghafla kiasi kile. Yusuf anaamini kuwa anamsindikiza Ami Aziz lakini ukweli ni kwamba ‘ami’ yake ni Mfanyabiashara, tena tajiri mkubwa, na Yusuf amewekwa rehani ili kulipia madeni ya baba yake.
Yusuf anajikuta anasafiri katika miji na vitongoji vingi vingine ambako anakutana na watu wa kila namna. Anabalehe na kukua kwenye dunia inayobadilika kwa kasi kutokana na kuingia kwa ukoloni na udhalimu wake na jamii kuharibika kwa kuvurugwa kwa utamaduni wake.
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