English books from Africa
Recommended English books (652)
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If you speak English here are some English books from Africa for the next part of the "Read Around The World Challenge".
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Murambi, the Book of Bones by Boubacar Boris Diop EN
SenegalDescription:
A novel about the 1994 slaughter of nearly a million Rwandans.
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My Father's Wives by José Eduardo Agualusa EN
AngolaDescription:
"Celebrated Angolan musician Faustino Manso has just died, leaving seven wives and eighteen children scattered across southern Africa. His youngest daughter, Laurentina, arrives in Angola from her home in Portugal to trace the story of the father she never knew." "My Father's Wives is the story of Laurentina's journey, but this fiction also runs in parallel with Jose Eduardo Agualusa's story of the novel's genesis, as writer and characters travel the southern African coast, from Angola, through Namibia and South Africa, to Mozambique, meeting extraordinary people and discovering Faustino's sec... continue
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My Fathers' Daughter : A Story of Family and Belonging by Hannah Pool EN
EritreaDescription:
What do you wear to meet your father for the first time? In 2004, Hannah Pool knew more about next season's lipstick colors than she did about Africa: a beauty editor for The Guardian newspaper, she juggled lattes and cocktails, handbags and hangouts through her twenties just like any other beautiful, independent Londoner. Her white, English adoptive relatives were beloved to her and were all the family she needed. Okay, if I treat it as a first date, then I'm on home turf. What image do I want to put across?...Classic, rather than trendy, and if my G-string doesn't pop out, I should be able t... continue
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My Friends : A Novel by Hisham Matar EN
LibyaDescription:
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return, a luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile The trick time plays is to lull us into the belief that everything lasts forever, and although nothing does, we continue, inside our dream. One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the... continue
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My Heart Will Cross this Ocean : My Story, My Son, Amadou by Kadiatou Diallo, Craig Thomas Wolff EN
GuineaDescription:
Descended from West African kings and healers, raised in the turbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married off at the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she was sixteen. Twenty-three years later, that child--a gentle, innocent young man named Amadou Diallo--was gunned down without cause on the streets of New York City. Now Kadi Diallo tells the astonishing, inspiring story of her life, her loss, and the defiant strength she has always found within. It was Kadi Diallo's voice that captivated the public when she came to America to defend her slain son, and it is that ... continue
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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola EN
NigeriaDescription:
The adventures of an African boy who strays into the world of the dead where his is lost for twenty-four years. Incorporates many unrecorded African myths.
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My Sister, the Serial Killer : A Novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite EN
Description:
"Slasher meets satire in this darkly comic novel set in Nigeria about a woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends"--
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Zimbabwe289.
NATIVE DANCE : An African Story by GERVÁSIO KAISER EN
Country: Africa / 
Sao Tome and Principe
Sao Tome and Principe
Description:
Settlers are ruling the islands. Makengo takes care of Tino, a native child a bully beats up, and this help brings trouble. It turns out the price Makengo pays comes along with a dance with Tino's mother and her change toward him. Relish voices of native Africans from the fingers of a gifted African writer.
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Ndima Ndima by Tsitsi Mapepa EN
Description:
From debut Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Mapepa comes the saga of the four Taha sisters, and the indomitable matriarch who carried her daughters-and her community-through times of drought and violence in their Harare neighborhood. From the red soil of her garden in Southgate 1, a crowded suburb of Harare, Nyeredzi watches the world. She knows not to venture beyond the grasses that fence them off from the bush, where the city's violent criminals and young women claim the night. But on this red soil, she is sovereign. It is here where she learns how to kill snakes, how to fight off a man, and how to ... continue