Popular African Essay Books
Find essay books written by authors from Africa for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (15)
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The Essential Nawal El Saadawi : A Reader by Nawal El Saadawi EN
EgyptDescription:
The writings of Nawal El Saadawi are essential to anyone wishing to understand the contemporary Arab world. Her dissident voice has stayed as consistent in its critique of neo.imperialist international politics as it has in its denunciation of women's oppression, both in her native Egypt and in the wider world. Saadawi is a figure of international significance, and her work has a central place in Arabic history and culture of the last half century. Featuring work never before translated into English, The Essential Nawal El Saadawi gathers together a wide range of Saadawi's writing. From novell... continue
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The Lights of Pointe-Noire by Alain Mabanckou EN
CongoDescription:
A moving meditation on home, home-coming and belonging from Francophone Africa's most important writer.
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The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus EN
AlgeriaDescription:
A Nobel Prize-winning author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide—the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly presents a crucial exposition of existentialist thought.
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This Tilting World by Colette Fellous EN
TunisiaDescription:
"Fellous's creative memoir delves into the history Tunisia's Jewish community, sweeping readers onto a lyrical journey from Tunisia to Paris to a Flaubertian village in Normandy, full of the voices of loved ones now silent" -- Provided by publisher.
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We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
NigeriaDescription:
Offers an updated definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.