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This Store

Welcome to Xarra Books Online!

Our online store is organised in the traditional Xarra categories for your convenience. Click on the relevant category on the revolving display above or access our catalog in the menu to purchase Xarra products. Another exciting feature of our online shop is the Amazon Store. Xarra is an associate of amazon.co.uk and through this relationship you can place orders via our Amazon Store. Amazon.co.uk currently has free delivery to South Africa for purchases of £25 or more.

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Xarra is an artistic confluence of Africa’s landscape, skyscape and mindscape exploring the depths and heights of Africa’s past, present and future creativity and experiences through literature, music and visual art – the Xperience. Xarra is the home for books, music and art from across the continent of Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas and the rest of the African Diaspora. We explore the ancient civilizations of the continent, the learnings of Timbuktu, the teachings of Marcus Noriah Garvey, the writings and inspiring tales of Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Wole Soyinka, Dambudzo Marechera and others, urban dramas and popular fiction by Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Zane, Isadore Johnson, biographies of African heroes: Nelson Mandela, Malcom X, Kwame Nkrumah, Martin Luther King and a whole lot of others.

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Ranked #1 book shop in Gauteng (South Africa) and #99 of 141 places to visit in Johannesburg by Lonely Planet in 2010! Click here for more on this and to locate us.

If you’re hoping to find books about how Europe ‘civilised’ Africa, you won't find them here!
At Xarra, the mainstream is the African Book. You will also find a wide selection of international reads, bestsellers, lifestyle, biographies, sport, esoteric, philosophy, motivational, other genres, music CDs, DVDs and Art.

But, if you are looking for inspiration, entertainment, deeper understanding of the ways of the world, gift ideas or simply how to prepare a fine African dish, visit us at Xarra.