Read Around Africa Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.
Best books from Africa (1156)
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The Night Will Have Its Say by Ibrahim al-Koni EN
LibyaDescription:
International Booker Prize finalist and "one of the Arab world's most innovative novelists" (Roger Allen) delivers a brilliant retelling of the Muslim wars of conquest in North Africa The year is 693 and a tense exchange, mediated by an interpreter, takes place between Berber warrior queen al-Kahina and an emissary from the Umayyad General Hassan ibn Nu'man. Her predecessor had been captured and killed by the Umayyad forces some years earlier, but she will go on to defeat them. The Night Will Have Its Say is a retelling of the Muslim wars of conquest in North Africa during the seventh century ... continue
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Valley of Ashes : by Aḥmad Ibrāhīm Faqīh EN
Description:
A poetic coming of age story by one of the leading contemporary writers of the Arab world, "Valley of Ashes" is the story of a free-thinking woman's clash, and eventual reconcilliation with the traditions and values of her desert village community.
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Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni EN
Description:
Gold Dust is a classic story of the brotherhood between man and beast, the thread of companionship that is all the difference between life and death in the desert. It is a story of the fight to endure in a world of limitless and waterless wastes, and a parable of the struggle to survive in the most dangerous landscape of all: human society.
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Homeless Rats by Ahmed Fagih EN
Description:
Homeless Rats is a battle between man and beast: a group of people from the Southern desert oasis of Mizda, fleeing the three year drought which has blighted their hometown, sets up camp in a new area where they hope to find work harvesting barley. To their dismay, when they arrive they find the crops decimated - jerboas have already harvested the barley and hidden it away in their burrows
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Catalogue of a Private Life by Najwa Bin Shatwan AR
Description:
A collection of short stories by one of the Arab world's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. A grandmother who takes on a thief trying to seduce her daughters. A guard who fantasises about killing his general while locked in battle with a non-existent enemy. A film script about Libya's traffic problems improvised at a workshop. A woman's letter from her old school, which is now a makeshift refugee camp. A cow straying into a field, breaking an age-old truce between warring factions. The eight stories of Catalogue of a Private Life feel like oft-recounted folktales, where the ordinary has ... continue
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Der Araber von morgen by Riad Sattouf DE
Description:
Ein wunderschönes Comic-Memoir, lustig, berührend, spannend. Eine (Zeit-)Reise von Syrien über Libyen nach Frankreich.
"Arabischer Frühling, Umsturz in Libyen und Krieg in Syrien. Als Reaktion darauf greift der 36-jährige französische Zeichner und Filmemacher Riad Sattouf zum Stift und erzählt von seiner Kindheit in der arabischen Welt: ein blondgelockter Junge, Sohn einer Französin und eines Syrers, wächst in Libyen und Syrien auf. Die Graphic Novel vom blonden Araber im Land der Diktatoren stürmte in Frankreich die Bestsellerlisten wi... continue
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Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo EN
Country: Africa / 
Madagascar
Madagascar
Description:
The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo’s magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation’s precolonial past through the twin narratives of a slave and his master’s daughter. Fara and her father’s slave, Tsito, have shared a tender intimacy since her father bought the young boy who’d been ripped away from his family after their forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice fields, everything is new for Tsito, and Fara at last has a companion to play with. But as Tsito looks forward toward the bright promis... continue
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Return to the Enchanted Island by Johary Ravaloson EN
Country: Africa / Madagascar
Madagascar
Description:
In this exhilarating prize-winning novel--only the second to be published in English from Madagascar--a young man comes of age amidst the enchanted origin myths of his island country. Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was raised to perpetuate the glory of his namesake and expected to be as illuminated as his Great Ancestor. But in the chaos of modernity, his young life is marked only by restlessness, maddening insomnia, and an adolescent apathy. When an unexpected tragedy ships him off to a boarding school in France, his trip to the big c... continue
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Elle, au printemps : roman by Michèle Rakotoson FR
Country: Africa / Madagascar
Madagascar
Description:
Analyse : Roman psychologique (intime). Roman de société