Popular African Historical Fiction Books
Find historical fiction books written by authors from Africa for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (119)
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Land of My Fathers by Vamba Sherif EN
LiberiaDescription:
Gripping story of conflict and turmoil in Liberia.
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Le dernier frère by Nathacha Appanah FR
MauritiusDescription:
Lorsque David lui apparaît en rêve, Raj se retrouve projeté dans son enfance : une plantation de champs de canne, le père à la violence imprévisible, la tendresse de la mère, les jeux près de la rivière avec ses frères... Un bonheur précaire balayé par un cyclone, et l’installation de la famille au centre de l’île, près d’une prison où vivent de mystérieux réfugiés. Le 26 décembre 1940, L’Atlantic accoste à Port-Louis avec, à son bord, quelque 1500 Juifs refoulés de Palestine et déportés à l’île Maurice, alors colonie britannique. À cette époque, Raj ignore tout du monde et des tragédies qui s... continue
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Lemona's Tale by Ken Saro-Wiwa EN
KenyaDescription:
For a quarter of a century, Lemona has been held in a Nigerian prison, her crimes reflecting her passion and despair, her silence masking the truth. On the last day of her life she is visited by Ola, whose parents Lemona killed. To this woman Lemona recounts the events of her upbringing in poverty, the kindness of friends who took her in, and the abuse, corruption and betrayal by men which led to her downfall. though she is awaiting execution, Lemona's desire to understand the forces that shaped her life resonates throughout her story, leading Ola towards a new interpretation of her own histor... continue
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Les soleils des indépendances : roman by Ahmadou Kourouma FR
Country: Africa / 
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast
Description:
Depuis l'ère des Indépendances, la république de la Côte des Ébènes est en proie à de profonds vouleversements.
South Africa56.
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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Ndima Ndima by Tsitsi Mapepa EN
ZimbabweDescription:
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
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Nedjma by Kateb Yacine EN
AlgeriaDescription:
Nedjma is a masterpiece of North African writing. Its intricate plot involves four men in love with the beautiful woman whose name serves as the title of the novel. Nedjma is the central figure of this disorienting novel, but more than the unfortunate wife of a man she does not love, more than the unwilling cause of rivalry among many suitors, Nedjma is the symbol of Algeria. Kateb has crafted a novel that is the saga of the founding ancestors of Algeria through the conquest of Numidia by the Romans, the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, and French colonial conquest. Nedjma is symbolic of the r... continue
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Country: Africa / 
Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
In Lília Momplé thrilling novel, Neighbours, a group of strangers find their futures forever intertwined over the course of just a few short hours.On the eve of Eid al-Fitr, three families quietly prepare for the night's celebrations, preoccupied with their own separate lives. Narguiss cooks food with her daughters, anxiously waiting for her husband to come home. Leia and Januário take joy in the fact they finally have a roof over their heads, especially after the birth of their young daughter. And Mena overhears her husband plotting murder... Told through a series of narrative snapshots, Neig... continue
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Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga EN
Description:
A modern classic from the Booker-shortlisted author of This Mournable Body The groundbreaking first novel in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s award-winning trilogy, Nervous Conditions, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and has been “hailed as one of the 20th century’s most significant works of African literature” (The New York Times). Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white minority rule, thirteen-year-old Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her education. On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents, siblings, and extended family, and within her burns the desire for indepe... continue