Read Around Africa Challenge

Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.

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Best books from Africa (583)
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El metro by Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Lambert Obama Ondo immigrates to Span in search of a better life but what price will he have to pay for it?

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Arde el monte de noche by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
La novela está ambientada en una de las islas de Guinea Ecuatorial (posiblemente Annabon, donde nació el autor; Guinea Ecuatorial fue la única colonia que tuvo España en el África Subsahariana. El narrador es una hombre que cuenta recuerdos de su infancia en la isla, en la que habitan solamente dos hombres blancos, el representante de la Corona Española y el sacerdote. Lo más peculiar del ambiente, es que se trata de un lugar profundamente aislado, y sus habitantes tienen una idea muy vaga de la existencia de otros hombres en otros lugares. La ... continue

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The Gurugu Pledge by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel EN

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Description:
Informed by first-hand accounts, this strangely funny yet chilling refugees' tale offers a distinctly African perspective on a global crisis.

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Heart of Fire by Senait Mehari EN

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Country: Africa / Eritrea flag Eritrea
Description:
One girl's extraordinary journey from child soldier to soul singer.
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The Consequences of Love by Sulaiman Addonia EN

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Country: Africa / Eritrea flag Eritrea
Description:
It is summer in Jeddah but Naser's life seems bleak. An immigrant in an unfriendly land, his friends have fled town for cooler climes and left him to his dead-end job and the scrutiny of the religious police, who keep watch through the shaded windows of their government jeeps. He spends his time writing to his mother in Africa and yearning to meet a woman - but in a country that separates men and women with walls and veils he feels increasingly trapped. Then, one of the black-clad women drops a piece of paper at his feet, instructing him to follow her pink shoes and suddenly his black-and-whit... continue
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166.

Gratitude in Low Voices : A Memoir by Dawit Gebremichael Habte EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Eritrea flag Eritrea
Description:
“A candid, inspiring memoir of cultural and historical importance” from an Eritrean-Ethiopian War refugee (Michael Bloomberg). Dawit Gebremichael Habte fled his homeland of Eritrea as a teenager. In the midst of the ongoing Eritrean-Ethiopian war, Dawit and his sisters crossed illegally into Kenya. Without their parents or documents to help their passage, they experienced the abuse and neglect known by so many refugees around the world. But Dawit refused to give up. He stayed resilient and positive. Journeying to the United States under asylum—and still a boy—Dawit found a new purpose in an un... continue
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167.

My Fathers' Daughter : A Story of Family and Belonging by Hannah Pool EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Eritrea flag Eritrea
Description:
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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168.

Silence Is My Mother Tongue : A Novel by Sulaiman Addonia EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Eritrea flag Eritrea
Description:
A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resilience, will serve as a screen in his silent cinema. From the cinema he can see all the comings and goings in the camp, especially those of two new arrivals: a girl named Saba, and her mute brother, Hagos. For these siblings, adapting to life in the camp is not easy. Saba mourns the future she lost when she was forced to abandon school, while Hagos, scorned for his inabilit... continue

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African Titanics by Abu Bakr Kahal EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Eritrea flag Eritrea
Description:
African Titanics tells the tale of the African boat people, their perilous journey north and the "migration bug".
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Las consecuencias del amor by Sulaiman Addonia ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Eritrea flag Eritrea
Description:
El joven Naser sueña con enamorarse de una muchacha de su edad, un riesgo considerable en Arabia Saudí, un país donde las relaciones entre un hombre y una mujer solteros están terminantemente prohibidas y severamente castigadas.Un día, mientras descansa bajo la sombra de su árbol favorito, una desconocida deja a sus pies una nota perfumada. La joven huye corriendo y él sólo consigue ver sus zapatos, de un rosa intenso.A partir de entonces, tanto Fiore como Naser viven únicamente para intercambiarse cartas de amor. Su pasión les arrastra hasta el punto de poner en peligro sus vidas.