Read Around Africa Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.
Best books from Africa (598)
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Solo en el mundo by Hisham Matar ES
LibyaDescription:
Con el telón de fondo de la vida en Trípoli durante los primeros tiempos de Gaddafi, Hisham Matar ha escrito un emocionante retrato de un niño, cuya mirada inocente va descubriendo las luces y las sombras de un país que despierta a la cruda realidad de los conflictos y tensiones generados durante décadas de plácido letargo. Considerada por The Times «uno de los más brillantes debuts literarios de años recientes», Solo en el mundo ha sido finalista del Premio Man Booker —distinción nunca antes conseguida por una primera novela— y se traducirá a veinte idiomas. Con nueve años de edad, Solimán em... continue
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The Slave Yards : A Novel by Najwa Bin Shatwan EN
Description:
Set in late nineteenth-century Benghazi, Najwa Bin Shatwan’s powerful novel tells the story of Atiqa, the daughter of a slave woman and her white master. We meet Atiqa as a grown woman, happily married with two children and working. When her cousin Ali unexpectedly enters her life, Atiqa learns the true identity of her parents, both long deceased, and slowly builds a friendship with Ali as they share stories of their past. We learn of Atiqa’s childhood, growing up in the “slave yards,” a makeshift encampment on the outskirts of Benghazi for Black Africans who were brought to Libya as slaves. A... continue
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Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo EN
Country: Africa / 
Madagascar
Madagascar
Description:
The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo’s magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation’s precolonial past through the twin narratives of a slave and his master’s daughter. Fara and her father’s slave, Tsito, have shared a tender intimacy since her father bought the young boy who’d been ripped away from his family after their forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice fields, everything is new for Tsito, and Fara at last has a companion to play with. But as Tsito looks forward toward the bright promis... continue
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Return to the Enchanted Island by Johary Ravaloson EN
Country: Africa / Madagascar
Madagascar
Description:
In this exhilarating prize-winning novel--only the second to be published in English from Madagascar--a young man comes of age amidst the enchanted origin myths of his island country. Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was raised to perpetuate the glory of his namesake and expected to be as illuminated as his Great Ancestor. But in the chaos of modernity, his young life is marked only by restlessness, maddening insomnia, and an adolescent apathy. When an unexpected tragedy ships him off to a boarding school in France, his trip to the big c... continue
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Elle, au printemps : roman by Michèle Rakotoson FR
Country: Africa / Madagascar
Madagascar
Description:
Analyse : Roman psychologique (intime). Roman de société
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Nur, 1947 by Jean Luc Raharimanana ES
Country: Africa / Madagascar
Madagascar
Description:
Madagascar,1947. Por la obsesiva búsqueda de un amor muerto, un fusilero se rebela y se zambulle en el pasado de la Gran Isla. Raharimanana, el autor, hurgando en los mitos y en la memoria malgaches, hace brotar así la violencia que jalona la historia de su país; violencia colonial que masacra en nombre de sus certidumbres civilizadoras, pero también violencia del país desgarrado por los sueños de unificación y de conquista de los sucesivos reinos.Apoyándose en una escritura visionaria, alucinada, Nur, 1947 es una novela necesaria y conmovedora de la historia malgache.Raharimanana nació en 196... continue
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The Jive Talker : An Artist's Genesis by Samson Kambalu EN
MalawiDescription:
What do you do when it looks like the odds were stacked against you before you were even born, when you're having trouble feeding a family that just keeps growing, when you've got a little too much of an affection for Carlsberg Brown and when the life president of your country, Malawi, keeps shuffling around the public health system that employs you, forcing you and your family into perpetual nomadism? You catch up on your reading, adding I'm OK, You're OK and Nietzsche to the bathroom library. Holding on to your dignity, you keep dressing up in threadbare three-piece suits you ordered from Lo... continue