Read Around Africa Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.
Best books from Africa (892)
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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
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No Easy Task by Aubrey Kachingwe EN
Description:
A book about a young journalist who ends up involved in the political events that led his country to independence from Great Britain.
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer EN
Description:
Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle... continue
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Smouldering Charcoal by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza EN
Description:
Chronicles the lives of two families in post-colonial Africa, the first - poor, working-class and ill-educated - is compared to the young politically aware college student and her journalist fiance. The middle-class pair become victims of the same brutal violence that the poor and powerless suffer.
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The Bird Boy's Song by Steve Chimombo EN
Description:
The Bird Boy's Song is a retelling of the common Malawian folk story. "The Orphan and the Slave". The story recounts a slave's usurpation of his master's place, which he enjoys for a short time, until he is unmasked. The author used modern storytelling techniques to dramatise this popular trickster tale.
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Description:
From beloved Malawian storyteller Upile Chisala comes the revised and expanded edition of her second collection of poetry. In nectar, Chisala guides readers through a beautiful process of growth and renewal. These poems celebrate our always complex, sometimes troubled roots while encouraging us to grow through and beyond them toward a passionate self-love. Chisala's hope is that her words will encourage readers to sow seeds of change in their own lives and the lives of others.