Read Around Africa Challenge
- Part of the "Read Around The World Challenge"
- Join book lovers like you from all over the world who want to read at least one book written by an author from each of the 54 countries in Africa.
- Track your progress reading around the world on a world map which is automatically created for you
- Leave your reading comfort zone and expand your reading horizon.
- Make 2023 the year you:
- will read more books,
- discover new authors,
- learn more about Africa.
- Register to join the "Read Around Africa Challenge"
54 countries in Africa means 54 books to read for this challenge
Reading progress by all challenge participants
96.3%
Read Around Africa Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.
Recommended Challenge Books (291)
1.
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
2.
Ce que le jour doit à la nuit by Yasmina Arcady FR
Rating: 4.5 2 Votes
Description:
Roman d'amour. Roman historique.
3.
Meursault, contre-enquête by Kamel Daoud FR
Rating: 3.5 2 Votes
Description:
Il est le frère de "l'Arabe" tué par un certain Meursault dont le crime est relaté dans un célèbre roman du XXe siècle. Soixante-dix ans après les faits, Haroun redonne un nom et une histoire à Moussa, mort par hasard sur une plage d'Alger trop ensoleillée. Soir après soir, dans un bar d'Oran, le vieillard rumine sa solitude, sa colère contre les hommes qui ont tant besoin d'un dieu, son désarroi face à un pays qui l'a déçu. Etranger parmi les siens, rage et frustration inentamées, il voudrait clore cette histoire et mourir enfin. Hommage en forme de contrepoint rendu à L'Etranger d'Albert Cam... continue
4.
Les jardins du roi : Oufkir, Hassan II et nous by Fatéma Oufkir FR
0 Ratings
Description:
En 1991, Fatéma Oufkir et ses enfants recouvrent la liberté, après dix-neuf ans d'une détention inique. Leur crime ? Avoir eu pour mari et pour père le général Oufkir, ministre de l'Intérieur marocain, " suicidé " en 1972 à l'issue d'un putsch manqué contre le roi Hassan Il. Un destin qu'était loin d'imaginer l'adolescente Fatéma, lorsque, dans les années 50, ce jeune Officier, farouche partisan de l'indépendance, la demanda en mariage. Après l'accession au trône de Mohammed V, Fatéma devient l'une des personnalités choyées de la cour, en tant qu'épouse d'un des plus grands serviteurs de l'Eta... continue
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Set in MOROCCO
Female author
Recommended: 30 Oct 2022
5.
In The Name of God by Yasmina Khadra EN
0 Ratings
Description:
Imagine becoming accustomed to terror on a daily basis. Imagine finding it normal to betray your neighbor. Imagine your worst fears being replaced by complacency, your natural compassion by cold indifference. "In the Name of God illustrates the way evil can become a part of everyday life. And it is the story of Algeria today.
6.
Toute une vie ne suffirait pas pour en parler : nouvelles by Adélaïde Fassinou FR
0 Ratings
Description:
Ah! les femmes et l' amour ... Toute une vie ne suffirait pas pour en parler. Sinon comment comprendre que Maguy veuille en finir avec la vie parce que J.J. ne voulait plus d' elle. elle était devenue trop grosse ... Et Nani alors! La jalousie au singulier pluriel. Huit récits tirés de l' imaginaire de l' auteur, reflet de l' existence humaine, forment la trame de ce recueil de nouvelles.
7.
A Bookshop in Algiers by Kaouther Adimi EN
0 Ratings
Description:
In 1936, a young dreamer named Edmond Charlot opened a modest bookshop in Algiers. Once the heart of Algerian cultural life, where Camus launched his first book and the Free French printed propaganda during the war, Charlot's beloved bookshop has been closed for decades, living on as a government lending library. Now it is to be shuttered forever. But as a young man named Ryad empties it of its books, he begins to understand that a bookshop can be much more than just a shop that sells books.A Bookshop in Algiers charts the changing fortunes of Charlot's bookshop through the polit... continue
8.
The Lovers of Algeria : A Novel by Anouar Benmalek EN
Rating: 3.5 2 Votes
Description:
When Anna, an elderly Swiss woman, asks nine-year-old street urchin Jallal to accompany her to the mountains so she can locate the lost lover and pray over the graves of her murdered offspring, he agrees, and the two set off on a dangerous journey into the heart of Algeria. Original.
9.
The Stranger by Albert Camus EN
Rating: 4 4 Votes
Description:
The subsequent imprisonment after a man commits a murder leads only to complete alienation from life existence.
Genre
Recommended: 05 Jan 2023
10.
What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra EN
Rating: 5 1 Vote
Description:
As a young man Younes' life is irrevocably changed when he leaves his broken home for the vibrant, colourful and affluent European district of Rio Salado. Renamed Jonas, he begins a new life and forges a unique friendship with a group of boys, an enduring bond that nothing - not even the Algerian Revolt - will shake.
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