African Heritage Books

Poetry that gives voice to the settlement of Nova Scotia by African peoples. 

In this verse play set in Nova Scotia in 1819, Clarke boldly reimagines Beatrice as the daughter of a white master and a black slave.

An amiable priest from Ottawa arrives in the Southern Ontario village where he’s been granted a parish of his very own — his first.

Sister Mine explores kinship, twinship, and the intense rivalry and intimacy unique to sisters.

This book spans the life Aminata Diallo, born in Bayo, West Africa, in 1745. During her long life of struggle, she does what she can to free herself...

The untold story of Canadian slavery and the burning of old Montréal. 

One of only three autobiographies of a Black Loyalist, full of details of the Loyalist settlement of Nova Scotia.

This book tells the story of Africville in many never-before-seen colour and black and white photographs of the residents and their community.

A collection of short stories by Canadian writer Austin Clarke. 

Celebrating the magic of growing up, and the power of remembering our roots.

In 1946, Viola Desmond bought a movie ticket at the Roseland Theatre in Nova Scotia, and made history. 

The mythic community created within these poems is populated with larger-than-life characters: lovers, murderers, musicians, and muses.