Popular African Romance Books
Find romance books written by authors from Africa for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (26)
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Luuanda: estórias by José Luandino Vieira PT
AngolaDescription:
As três narrativas aqui reunidas retratam a dura realidade dos musseques angolanos - os bairros pobres de Luanda, onde o próprio autor viveu. Essas histórias curtas, buscam na oralidade inspiração para recriar a linguagem e nos fazem lembrar da nossa própria trajetória literária.
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Memory of Departure by Abdulrazak Gurnah EN
TanzaniaDescription:
**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021** Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal life Poverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar's family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape. The arrival of Independence brings new upheavals as well as the betrayal of the promise of freedom. The new government, fearful of an exodus of its most able men, discourages young people from travelling abroad and refuses to release examination results. Deprived of a scholarship, Hassan travels to Nairobi to stay with a ... continue
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My Father's Wives by José Eduardo Agualusa EN
Description:
"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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Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad by Damilare Kuku EN
NigeriaDescription:
One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will call his family members for a meeting in the house. He will not call your family members, but you will not care. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad is a collection of twelve short stories featuring characters with unique voices and stories that represent the diverse class, gender and ethnic melting pot that is Lagos. There's a story of a young lady who tries to find her oyibo soulmate on the streets of Lagos; another of a pastor's wife who defends her ... continue
South Africa16.
O mapeador de ausências by Mia Couto PT
Country: Africa / 
Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
O personagem principal desta história regressa a Moçambique depois de anos de ausência. E regressa também ao passado, envolvendo-se numa teia de acontecimentos que parecem dar continuidade ao que tinha ficado parado a aguardar explicação anos atrás. Os papéis da PIDE fizeram-me lembrar a biografia que ainda não terminei de escrever.
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O quase fim do mundo by Pepetela PT
Description:
O quase fim do mundo, romance futurista do angolano PEPETELA, inicia-se em Calpe, cidade fictícia em algum ponto da África, entre as regiões Central e Austral, onde um grupo de pessoas sobrevive a um evento apocalíptico de origem desconhecida. O médico Simba Ukolo, ao voltar para casa após um dia de trabalho, presencia um clarão que ilumina todo o céu. Na sequência, toda a vida na terra é aniquilada, sobrando apenas as roupas das pessoas, algumas plantas e poucos animais. Aos poucos, Simba percebe que não está só e um grupo de sobreviventes, de origens e perfis diversos, começa a se formar: um... continue
Cape Verde19.
Description:
An epic West-African inspired YA fantasy from an incredible new talent.
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The First Wife : A Tale of Polygamy by Paulina Chiziane EN
Country: Africa / Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women--as well as an additional lover--according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights. In this brilliantly funny and feverishly scathing critique, a major work fr... continue