5 Books Published by House of Nehesi Publishers on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Literary Nonfiction. Caribbean and African American Studies. Language and Ethnicity Politics. SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IMAGINATION gives us that capacity for language and therefore the ability to name and establish categories…it allows us to define freedom. George Lamming recognizes the centrality of the quest for freedom for the social group that he calls ’this world of men and women from down below’—Prof. Anthony Bogues, Political Science, Brown University

A new collection of poems.

A new collection of Essays on American history; Black studies; progressive political thought; Reparations; American slavery/TransAtlantic slave trade; US Civil War; Civil Rights movement.

Poetry. African American Studies. Kamau Brathwaite was born in Barbados in 1930, and found a rootedness in Africa that would sharpen his sense of "wholeness" and shape his awareness. His published works have surged his international standing, but since MIDDLEPASSAGES (1992, also available from SPD), the literary world has seemingly been expecting another major volume of poetry from him. WORDS NEED LOVE TOO represents that long awaited collection, and is, perhaps, Brathwaite’s most concentrated effort at fashioning a new literary tradition out of the fragmented pieces/rhythms/nation languages that form the New World. The poems in this volume are "dreamstories." It is a harvest of dreams of a new word, cleansed in ancestral blood, loved without reservation by those born into it and with it, so that through it, they can shape a new reality, a new destiny. No other poet, living or dead, makes us participants in, and co-celebrants of, the liturgy of the word like Brathwaite.

Literary Nonfiction. Caribbean, European, and African American Studies. George Lamming, one of the Caribbean’s finest intellects and foremost literary artists…summons us to the urgency of our obligations. The elegance of his utterance should not in any way detract from the gravity of the challenge…The Lamming monographs are themselves part of the current discourse which targets the historical, cultural and scientific implications of the pan-hemispheric encounters that will continue to be of global importance well into the twenty-first century.—Rex Nettleford, Pro Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies