Amalion is a multilingual independent

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house based in

Dakar Dakar ( ; ; wo, Ndakaaru) (from daqaar ''tamarind''), is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 3.94 million in 2 ...

Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 � ...

History

Amalion is an independent pan-African publishing house based in Dakar, created in 2009. Amalion publishes scholarly knowledge from various parts of Africa, and across linguistic boundaries. Amalion’s logo is represented by the head of a lion in a plethora of colors representing the diversity of the African continent. The first book released by Amalion in June 2009 is a collection of poetry from the Ugandan writer

Mildred Kiconco Barya Mildred Kiconco Barya is a writer and poet from Uganda. She was awarded the 2008 Pan African Literary Forum Prize for Africana Fiction, and earlier gained recognition for her poetry, particularly her first two collections, ''Men Love Chocolates ...

entitled ''Give Me Room To Move My Feet''. Since then, the house has published other works, including ''A History of the

Yoruba The Yoruba people (, , ) are a West African ethnic group that mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. The areas of these countries primarily inhabited by Yoruba are often collectively referred to as Yorubaland. The Yoruba constitute ...

People'' by

Stephen Adebanji Akintoye Stephen Adebanji Akintoye, also known as S. Banji Akintoye (born 1935), is a Nigerian-born academic, historian and writer. He attended Christ's School Ado Ekiti, Nigeria from 1951–1955, and studied history at the University College (Overseas Co ...

(2010), ''La dette odieuse de l’Afrique'', by Léonce Ndikumana and James Boyce (2013) on the links between debt, capital flight and development in Africa; ''Wala Bok: Une histoire orale du hip hop au Sénégal'', (2015) by

Fatou Kandé Senghor Fatou Bintou Kandé Senghor (born 9 January 1971) is a Senegalese film director, writer, and photographer. Biography Senghor was born in Dakar in 1971 and grew up between Nigeria, Ghana, and Benin. Her father was a diplomat from the Casamance r ...

on the evolution of rap and the emergence of youth activism in Senegal and ''My Life Has a Price'', by Tina Okpara (2012), a searing story of freedom from modern slavery. Amalion also published ''The Promise of Hope'' (2014), the last work of the Ghanaian poet

Kofi Awoonor Kofi Awoonor (born George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams; 13 March 1935 – 21 September 2013) was a Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict A ...

, who died in the terrorist attack on Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi in 2013, within the ''African Poetry Book Series'' project coordinated by the poet

Kwame Dawes Kwame Senu Neville Dawes (born 28 July 1962) is a Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. He is now Professor of English at the University of N ...

. In 2016, the work of the renowned Nigerian historian Mahmud Modibbo Tukur ''British colonisation of

Northern Nigeria Northern Nigeria was an autonomous division within Nigeria, distinctly different from the southern part of the country, with independent customs, foreign relations and security structures. In 1962 it acquired the territory of the United Kingd ...

, 1897-1914'' is released. Amalion is also involved with Jacana Literary Foundation and some publishing houses around Africa in the creation of the new Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology for the promotion of gender and human rights launched in 2016. Amalion titles cover literary fiction, social sciences, development studies, biographies, arts and politics aimed for academics and the general public.

Published authors

Louis Camara Louis Camara (Abdou Karim Camara) is a Senegalese writer known for his short stories and tales. Biography Louis Camara, the storyteller of Ifà as he is popularly known, was born in 1950 at the edge of the Senegal River in Saint Louis, located ...

* Tina Okpara * Ibrahima Amadou Niang *

* Clifton Gachagua * Kevin Eze *

* Anthonia Makwemoisa * Enyinna Chuta * Léonce Ndikumana * :fr:James K. Boyce * :fr:Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo * Rotimi Williams Olatunji * Beatrice Adeyinka Laninhun * Tope Omoniyi * :fr:Fatou Kande Senghor * Mahmud Modibbo Tukur * Tade Akin Aina * Bhekinkosi Moyo * Fabrizio Terenzio *

Antoinette Tidjani Alou Antoinette Tidjani Alou is a Jamaican-Nigerien academic, film-maker and writer, whose work focuses on the constructions of Sahelian identity in written and oral literature, as well as women in Sahelian identities. She published a novel ''On m'app ...

* Akwasi Aidoo

References

{{Reflist 2009 establishments in Senegal Academic publishing companies Companies of Senegal Mass media in Senegal