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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An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie EN
TogoDescription:
Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland—and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures among the Inuit is a testament both to the wonderful strangeness of the human species and to the surprising sympathies that bind us all.
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Explicacion de la noche by Edem Awumey ES
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Un tren cruza la noche invernal del Quebec; Ito Bataka está volviendo a su hogar, un subsuelo con connotaciones suicidas, sólo iluminado por el amor y los tiernos pechos de Kimi, también quebrada, vencida, pero aún capaz de amar.
Hubo, en algún momento de la vida de Ito, alegría y la euforia universitaria de amigos y libros en su tierra natal, en Lomé; con sueños de libertad e igualdad, manifestaciones. Y también hubo en tiempo del fin de esa ilusión, de un cielo negro cargado de plomo. Y hubo también, en los momento... continue
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Bodyminds Reimagined : (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk EN
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In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slave narratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, ... continue
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Descent into Night by Edem Awumey EN
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With a nod to Samuel Beckett and Bohumil Hrabal, a young dramatist from a West African nation describes a student protest against a brutal oligarchy and its crushing aftermath. Edem Awumey gives us a darkly moving and terrifying novel about fear and play, repression and protest, and the indomitable nature of creativity.
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Behind Closed Doors : Women's Oral Narratives in Tunis by Monia Hejaiej EN
TunisiaDescription:
Tunis has a long history of city life reaching back to ancient times. The Arabic language is firmly rooted among its inhabitants and most embrace the morals and culture of Islam. Behind Closed Doors presents forty-seven tales told by three Beldi women, members of a historic and highly civilized community, the city's traditional elite. Tale-telling is important to all Beldi women, and the book examines its role in their shared world and its significance in the lives of the three tellers. Tales are told at communal gatherings to share and pass on Beldi women's secret lore of love, marriage and d... continue
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The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai EN
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From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of revolution and the power of a single quest. Sidi lives a hermetic life as a bee whisperer, tending to his beloved "girls" on the outskirts of the desolate North African village of Nawa. He wakes one morning to find that something has attacked one of his beehives, brutally killing every inhabitant. Heartbroken, he soon learns that a mysterious swarm of vicious hornets committed the mass murder--but where did they come from, and how can he stop them? If he is going to unravel this mystery and save... continue