Read Around Africa Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.
Best books from Africa (715)
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Les fers de l'absence by Hélène Kaziendé FR
NigerDescription:
Alors que Raya se débat à Irtaabi pour élever ses trois enfants, son époux Wadou, incarcéré à Bulala, la prison la plus répressive de Wirfaaba, confie à son journal sa solitude, ses blessures et ses doutes sur l'avenir. ŠL'auteure nous introduit au coeur de la politique africaine, et personne ne s'étonnera devant le tableau qu'elle peint de ces dictatures abominables qui ont régenté le continent. Derrière la poésie qui se dégage de cette oeuvre engagée, il y a la réalité révoltante du sort fait au peuple, la volonté de le voir sortir de ses fers et la conviction qu'il porte en lui-même les lum... continue
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe EN
NigeriaDescription:
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive and he is one of the powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show his weakness. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, he takes violent action. Will the great man's pride eventually destroy him?
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Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
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Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father sends her and her brother away to stay with their aunt, a University professor, whose house is noisy and full of laughter. There, Kambili and her brother discover a life and love beyond the confines of their father's authority. The visit will li... continue
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We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
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Offers an updated definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.
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Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a haunting story of love and war. • Recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award. With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works f... continue
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Waiting For an Angel by Helon Habila EN
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WAITING FOR AN ANGEL marks the debut of one of Africa's most promising new writers. Lomba is a young journalist living under military regime in Lagos, one of the most dangerous cities in the world. His mind is full of soul music and girls and thenovel he is writing. But his room-mate goes mad and is beaten up by soldiers, his first love is forced to marry a man she doesn't love, and his neighbours are planning a demo which is bound to incite riot and arrests. Lomba can no longer bury his head in the sand. He must write the truth about this reign of terror . . . WAITING FOR AN ANGEL captures th... continue
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The Girl with the Louding Voice : A Novel by Abi Daré EN
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! “Brave, fresh . . . unforgettable.”—The New York Times Book Review “A celebration of girls who dare to dream.”—Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers (Oprah’s Book Club pick) Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and recommended by The New York Times, Marie Claire, Vogue, Essence, PopSugar, Daily Mail, Electric Literature, Red, Stylist, Daily Kos, Library Journal, The Everygirl, and Read It Forward! The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to ge... continue
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My Sister, the Serial Killer : A Novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite EN
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"Slasher meets satire in this darkly comic novel set in Nigeria about a woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends"--
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola EN
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The ghosts live in the center of the jungle and this tells of what happens to the mortals who venture into the world of the ghosts.
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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
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A searing nove, at once sweeping and intimate: a story of love and race centred around a man and woman from Nigeria who seemed destined to be together--until the choices they are forced to make tear them apart. Ifemelu--beautiful, self-assured--left Nigeria 15 years ago, and now studies in Princeton as a Graduate Fellow. Obinze--handsome and kind-hearted--was Ifemelu's teenage love; he'd hoped to join her in America, but post 9/11 America wouldn't let him in. Years later, when they reunite in Nigeria, neither is the same person who left home. Obinze is the kind of successful "Big Man" he'd sco... continue