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Fat Charlie Nancy discovers his father was Anansi, the West African spider-trickster god. His long-lost brother arrives with godlike abilities and turns his life upside down. A joyful exploration of West African mythology.

Bita Plant, a Jamaican girl educated in England by missionary patrons, returns to Jamaica and must choose between the Western values she was trained in and her own people. McKay's finest novel.

Padmore's major work arguing that Pan-Africanism — not Communism — is the correct path to African liberation. He broke with the Comintern in 1934 and became Nkrumah's advisor on Pan-Africanism.

Emily, an English woman visiting her father's Caribbean plantation in the early 19th century, and Cambridge, an enslaved African man who converted to Christianity, each narrate their experience of the same place.