Read Around Africa Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.
Best books from Africa (1154)
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Ve, cuéntaselo al sol by Wame M. Molefhe ES
BotswanaDescription:
Una mujer se presenta en el funeral de su amante, un prolífico escritor botsuanés. Otra, rememora un viejo amor con su amiga de la infancia, mientras medita sobre la libertad que ha alcanzado un chimpancé que se escapa de un zoo. Esta misma mujer —que podría ser otra— recibe una carta: «No pude soportarlo. Me voy a un lugar mejor». La «enfermedad aguda», conocida como «las cuatro letras» y a la que nadie le quiere dar un nombre, empieza a hacer estragos en el entorno de una mujer, su esposo y su amante. En el pueblo de su madre, una mujer recuerda su infancia y los dictámenes de la tradición. ... continue
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Nisa erzählt : das Leben einer Nomadenfrau in Afrika by Nisa (Nomadenfrau), Marjorie Shostak DE
Description:
Die Kung-Frau Nisa erzählt von ihrem Leben bei ihrem Nomadenstamm: von der glücklichen Kindheit, der frühen Verheiratung und anderen Erlebnissen.
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Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87 by Thomas Sankara EN
Country: Africa / 
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
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Under Sankara's leadership, the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso in West Africa mobilized peasants, workers, women, and youth to carry out literacy and immunization drives; to sink wells, plant trees, build dams, erect housing; to combat the oppression of women and transform exploitative relations on the land; to free themselves from the imperialist yoke and solidarize with others engaged in that fight internationally. Sankara speaks as an outstanding revolutionary leader of working people and youth the world over. Second edition includes a new introduction by editor Michel Prairie, fo... continue
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Of Water and the Spirit—Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Somé EN
Country: Africa / Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Description:
Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he remained for the next fifteen years, being harshly indoctrinated into european ways of thought and worship. The story tells of his return to his people, his hard initiation back into those people, which lead to his desire to convey their knowledge to the world. Of Water and the Spirit is the result of that desire; it is a sharing of living African traditions, offered in compassion for those struggling with our contemporary crisis of the spirit.
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Ritual : Power, Healing and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some EN
Country: Africa / Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
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In this remarkable book, Malidoma Some explores the essential role ritual plays in the maintaining of the community, and makes a convincing case that a lack of ritual in the Western world is a fundamental reason that the fabric of society is unravelling.
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