Read Around Africa Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.
Best books from Africa (893)
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The Youth of God : A Novel by Hassan Ghedi Santur EN
SomaliaDescription:
The Youth of God tells the story of Nuur, a sensitive and academically gifted seventeen-year-old boy growing up in Toronto's Somali neighbourhood, as he negotiates perilously between the calling of his faith and his intellectual ambitions. This intensely moving novel is also a powerful allegory of the struggle for the soul of Islam in modern times.
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Aman : The Story of a Somali Girl by Aman EN
Description:
This is the extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia and her struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society. By the time she is nine, Aman has undergone a ritual circumcision ceremony; at eleven, her innocent romance with a white boy leads to a murder; at thirteen she is given away in an arranged marriage to a stranger. Aman eventually runs away to Mogadishu, where her beauty and rebellious spirit leads her to the decadent demimonde of white colonialists. Hers is a world in which women are both chattel and freewheeling entrepreneurs... continue
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Dina händer var fulla av liv by Suad Ali SV
Description:
Dina händer var fulla av liv skildrar en kvinna före, under och efter flykten. Romanen ställer frågor som: vad händer med en människa som vuxit upp i en privilegierad miljö och sedan förlorar allt, en kvinna som varit lyckligt gift och Mogadishus bästa gymnasielärare som hamnar som ung änka i Sandviken och tvingas försörja sig genom att städa skolkorridorer? Vi får följa Nora från barndomen i Baidoa, via gymnasietiden i Somalias huvudstad Mogadishu, genom de begynnande orosåren i landet, när klankonflikterna och politisk instabilitet växer sig allt större. Till sist finns ingen annan utväg än ... continue
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The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert by Shugri Said Salh EN
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A remarkable and inspiring true story that "stuns with raw beauty" about one woman's resilience, her courageous journey to America, and her family's lost way of life. Born in Somalia, a spare daughter in a large family, Shugri Said Salh was sent at age six to live with her nomadic grandmother in the desert. The last of her family to learn this once-common way of life, Salh found herself chasing warthogs, climbing termite hills, herding goats, and moving constantly in search of water and grazing lands with her nomadic family. For Salh, though the desert was a harsh place threatened by drought, ... continue
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Teaching My Mother how to Give Birth by Warsan Shire EN
Description:
"Arts Council England"--Page facing title page.
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Maps by Nuruddin Farah EN
Description:
A Somali youth is torn between duty to family and country. On the one hand Askar, an orphan, should look after his foster mother, on the other he wants to be a man and emulate his father who died fighting the Ethiopians. By an English-speaking Somali writer, author of Secrets.
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Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton EN
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
The compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom.
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco... continue
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Gem Squash Tokoloshe by Rachel Zadok EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Faith struggles to make sense of the complex world in which she lives and come to terms with the beliefs her society and upbringing have inculcated in her. This tale of courage, set against the backdrop of a chaotically divided country, recreates the voice of a young girl growing up during the height of apartheid unrest in South Africa.
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Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
‘There are many suns,’ he said. ‘Each day has its own. Some are small, some are big. I’m named after the small ones.’ It is 1903. A lame and frail Malangana – ‘Little Suns’ – searches for his beloved Mthwakazi after many lonely years spent in Lesotho. Mthwakazi was the young woman he had fallen in love with twenty years earlier, before the assassination of Hamilton Hope ripped the two of them apart. Intertwined with Malangana’s story, is the account of Hope – a colonial magistrate who, in the late nineteenth century, was undermining the local kingdoms of the eastern Cape in order to bring them... continue