Popular African Romance Books
Find romance books written by authors from Africa for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (34)
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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
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Memory of Departure by Abdulrazak Gurnah EN
TanzaniaDescription:
The debut novel by the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal life Poverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar's family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape. The arrival of independence brings new upheavals as well as the betrayal of the promise of freedom. The new government, fearful of an exodus of its most able men, discourages young people from travelling abroad and refuses to release examination results. Deprived of a scholarship, Hassan travels to Nairobi to ... continue
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My Father's Wives by José Eduardo Agualusa EN
AngolaDescription:
"Celebrated Angolan musician Faustino Manso has just died, leaving seven wives and eighteen children scattered across southern Africa. His youngest daughter, Laurentina, arrives in Angola from her home in Portugal to trace the story of the father she never knew." "My Father's Wives is the story of Laurentina's journey, but this fiction also runs in parallel with Jose Eduardo Agualusa's story of the novel's genesis, as writer and characters travel the southern African coast, from Angola, through Namibia and South Africa, to Mozambique, meeting extraordinary people and discovering Faustino's sec... continue
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Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad by Damilare Kuku EN
NigeriaDescription:
One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will call his family members for a meeting in the house. He will not call your family members, but you will not care. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad is a collection of twelve short stories featuring characters with unique voices and stories that represent the diverse class, gender and ethnic melting pot that is Lagos. There's a story of a young lady who tries to find her oyibo soulmate on the streets of Lagos; another of a pastor's wife who defends her ... continue
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O mapeador de ausências by Mia Couto PT
Country: Africa / 
Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
O personagem principal desta história regressa a Moçambique depois de anos de ausência. E regressa também ao passado, envolvendo-se numa teia de acontecimentos que parecem dar continuidade ao que tinha ficado parado a aguardar explicação anos atrás. Os papéis da PIDE fizeram-me lembrar a biografia que ainda não terminei de escrever.
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O Paraíso São Os Outros by Valter Hugo Mae PT
Description:
"O paraíso são os outros" de Valter Hugo Mãe, ganha nova edição pela Biblioteca Azul com ilustrações do autor inéditas no Brasil. "O paraíso são os outros", uma menina volta seu olhar pueril para os casais. Casais de pessoas e de animais, de homem e mulher, de mulher com mulher, de golfinhos e de pinguins. Uma menina a quem o amor intriga e fascina. Uma menina que ao imaginar a vida dos outros, sonha com a pessoa que um dia irá amar. Sua voz inocente toca tanto as crianças quanto os adultos. A nova edição desta obra do aclamado escritor português Valter Hugo Mãe traz ilustrações do autor e tex... continue
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O quase fim do mundo by Pepetela PT
Description:
O quase fim do mundo, romance futurista do angolano PEPETELA, inicia-se em Calpe, cidade fictícia em algum ponto da África, entre as regiões Central e Austral, onde um grupo de pessoas sobrevive a um evento apocalíptico de origem desconhecida. O médico Simba Ukolo, ao voltar para casa após um dia de trabalho, presencia um clarão que ilumina todo o céu. Na sequência, toda a vida na terra é aniquilada, sobrando apenas as roupas das pessoas, algumas plantas e poucos animais. Aos poucos, Simba percebe que não está só e um grupo de sobreviventes, de origens e perfis diversos, começa a se formar: um... continue
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