Popular African Political Books

Find political books written by authors from Africa for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (64)

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We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN

Rating: 4 (76 votes)
Country: Africa / Nigeria flag Nigeria
Description:
Offers an updated definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.

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What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad EN

Rating: 4 (7 votes)
Country: Africa / Egypt flag Egypt
Description:
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the widely acclaimed, bestselling author of American War—a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. "Told from the point of view of two children, on the ground and at sea, the story so astutely unpacks the us-versus-them dynamics of our divided world that it deserves to be an instant classic." —The New York Times Book Review More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk und... continue

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Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
"There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women," explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a popular revolutionary government and began to combat the hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination.

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Zeit der Nordwanderung by Tajjib Salich DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Sudan flag Sudan
Description:
Tajjib Salichs erster Roman machte ihn über Nacht berühmt und das Buch wurde zum Kultbuch der arabischen Intellektuellen.