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Africa

Read Africa
  • A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park
  • A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah
  • A Proper Marriage, Doris Lessing
  • A Question of Power, Bessie Head
  • A Spell of Good Things, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
  • Admiring Silence, Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • Aftershocks, Nadia Owusu
  • All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Maya Angelou
  • Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • An African Treasury, Langston Hughes
  • Anthills of the Savannah, Chinua Achebe
  • Aké: The Years of Childhood, Wole Soyinka
  • Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue
  • Better Never than Late, Chika Unigwe
  • By the Rivers of Water, Erskine Clarke
  • By the Sea, Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • Changes: A Love Story, Ama Ata Aidoo
  • Cleopatra: A Life, Stacy Schiff
  • Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
  • Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
  • Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller
  • Do They Hear You When You Cry, Fauziya Kassindja
  • Dreams in a Time of War, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 
  • Efuru, Florence Nwapa
  • False Papers, André Aciman
  • Foreign Gods, Inc, Okey Ndibe
  • Gods of Noonday, Elaine Neil Orr
  • Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Happiness, Aminatta Forna
  • Happiness, Like Water, Chinelo Okparanta
  • Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
  • Houseboy, Ferdinand Oyono
  • Ibadan, Wole Soyinka
  • Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • July’s People, Nadine Gordimer
  • Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography, Mark Mathabane
  • Led by Faith, Immaculée Ilibagiza
  • Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela
  • Lyrics Alley, Leila Aboulela
  • Martha Quest, Doris Lessing
  • Maryam’s Maze, Mansoura Ez-Eldin
  • Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa, Peter Godwin
  • Murambi. The Book of Bones, Boubacar Boris Diop
  • Murder in the Cassava Patch, Bai T. Moore
  • Myth, Literature and the African World, Wole Soyinka
  • Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
  • No Longer at Ease, Chinua Achebe
  • Nomad, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • None to Accompany Me, Nadine Gordimer
  • October, Zoë Wicomb
  • On Black Sisters Street, Chika Unigwe
  • One Day I Will Write About This Place, Binyavanga Wainaina
  • Out of Egypt, André Aciman
  • Playing in the Light, Zoë Wicomb
  • Petals of Blood, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 
  • Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Say You’re One of Them, Uwem Akpan
  • Second Class Citizen, Buchi Emecheta
  • She Would Be King, by Wayetu Moore
  • Slave: My True Story, Mende Nazar
  • So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ
  • Song for Night, Chris Abana
  • Someday, Maybe, Onyi Nwabineli
  • Someone Knows My Name, Lawrence Hill
  • Stay With Me, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
  • Swing Time, Zadie Smith
  • The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, Dinaw Mengestu
  • The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Ayi Kwei Armah
  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba
  • The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi
  • The Devil That Danced on the Water, Aminatta Forna
  • The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays, Chinua Achebe
  • The Famished Road, Ben Okri
  • The Fever Tree, Jennifer McVeigh
  • The First Man, Albert Camus
  • The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma
  • The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
  • The Granta Book of the African Short Story, Helon Habila
  • The Heart of Redness, Zakes Mda
  • The Heinemann Book of African Women’s Writing, Charlotte H. Bruner
  • The Hired Man, Aminatta Forna
  • The House at Sugar Beach, Helene Cooper
  • The Imposter, Damon Galgut
  • The Joys of Motherhood, Buchi Emecheta
  • The Law Mentee Guide, by Samantha Divine
  • The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif
  • The Memoirs of Cleopatra, Margaret George
  • The Memory of Love, Aminatta Forna
  • The Plague, Albert Camus
  • The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, Lola Shoneyin
  • The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste
  • The Shadow of the Sun, Ryszard Kapuściński
  • The Slave Girl, Buchi Emecheta
  • The Smell of Apples, Mark Behr
  • The Stranger, Albert Camus
  • The Summer Before Dark, Doris Lessing
  • The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • The Translator, Leila Aboulela
  • There Was a Country, Chinua Achebe
  • This Child Will Be Great, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga
  • Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
  • This Strange Eventful History, Claire Messud
  • Under the Udala Trees, Chinelo Okparanta
  • What is the What, Dave Eggers
  • When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, Peter Godwin
  • Without a Name and Under the Tongue, Yvonne Vera
  • Wizard of the Crow, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 
  • Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter, J. Nozipo Maraire