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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Nur, 1947 by Jean Luc Raharimanana ES
Country: Africa / 
Madagascar
Madagascar
Description:
Madagascar,1947. Por la obsesiva búsqueda de un amor muerto, un fusilero se rebela y se zambulle en el pasado de la Gran Isla. Raharimanana, el autor, hurgando en los mitos y en la memoria malgaches, hace brotar así la violencia que jalona la historia de su país; violencia colonial que masacra en nombre de sus certidumbres civilizadoras, pero también violencia del país desgarrado por los sueños de unificación y de conquista de los sucesivos reinos.Apoyándose en una escritura visionaria, alucinada, Nur, 1947 es una novela necesaria y conmovedora de la historia malgache.Raharimanana nació en 196... continue
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Le riz et l'eau : Vary sy rano by Brigitte Mangeol-Razafindranaly FR
Country: Africa / Madagascar
Madagascar
Description:
La grande histoire a réuni les destins de Madagascar et de la France, notamment à travers la période coloniale (1896-1960). Cette communauté de trajectoire a évidemment, et en profondeur, influé sur la vie de toutes les familles malgaches.La narratrice, née d'une mère métisse et d'un père autochtone, explique comment les méandres de l'histoire malgache l'ont conduite à ancrer sa vie en France. Au fil des souvenirs et des anecdotes, des allers-retours entre l'enfance et l'âge adulte, elle entraîne le lecteur à la découverte de son pays natal et de sa culture, ainsi que de sa grande famille, le ... continue
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Machete season by Jean Hatzfeld EN
Country: Africa / Madagascar
Madagascar
Description:
A veteran foreign correspondent shares a collection of interviews with ten Hutu men--all tried, convicted, and sentenced for the genocidal killings of their Tutsi neighbors--as they describe their participation in the heinous crimes and their reasons for the murders, in a study that considers the roots of human morality and ethics. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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The Jive Talker : An Artist's Genesis by Samson Kambalu EN
MalawiDescription:
What do you do when it looks like the odds were stacked against you before you were even born, when you're having trouble feeding a family that just keeps growing, when you've got a little too much of an affection for Carlsberg Brown and when the life president of your country, Malawi, keeps shuffling around the public health system that employs you, forcing you and your family into perpetual nomadism? You catch up on your reading, adding I'm OK, You're OK and Nietzsche to the bathroom library. Holding on to your dignity, you keep dressing up in threadbare three-piece suits you ordered from Lo... continue
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No Easy Task by Aubrey Kachingwe EN
Description:
A book about a young journalist who ends up involved in the political events that led his country to independence from Great Britain.
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer EN
Description:
Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle... continue
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The Bird Boy's Song by Steve Chimombo EN
Description:
The Bird Boy's Song is a retelling of the common Malawian folk story. "The Orphan and the Slave". The story recounts a slave's usurpation of his master's place, which he enjoys for a short time, until he is unmasked. The author used modern storytelling techniques to dramatise this popular trickster tale.
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Description:
From beloved Malawian storyteller Upile Chisala comes the revised and expanded edition of her second collection of poetry. In nectar, Chisala guides readers through a beautiful process of growth and renewal. These poems celebrate our always complex, sometimes troubled roots while encouraging us to grow through and beyond them toward a passionate self-love. Chisala's hope is that her words will encourage readers to sow seeds of change in their own lives and the lives of others.
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Soft Magic by Upile Chisala EN
Description:
'soft magic.' is the debut collection of prose and poetry by Malawian writer, Upile Chisala. This book explores the self, joy, blackness, gender, matters of the heart, the experience of Diaspora, spirituality and most of all, how we survive. 'soft magic.' is a shared healing journey.