Read Around Africa Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.
Best books from Africa (1155)
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Amkoullel, the Fula Boy by Amadou Hampâté Bâ EN
MaliDescription:
Born in 1900 in French West Africa, Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ was one of the towering figures in the literature of twentieth-century Francophone Africa. In Amkoullel, the Fula Boy, Bâ tells in striking detail the story of his youth, which was set against the aftermath of war between the Fula and Toucouleur peoples and the installation of French colonialism. A master storyteller, Bâ recounts pivotal moments of his life, and the lives of his powerful and large family, from his first encounter with the white commandant through the torturous imprisonment of his stepfather and to his forced a... continue
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Desdemona by Toni Morrison, Rokia Traoré EN
Description:
The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traoré, and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison's response to Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse Barbary. Morrison gives voice and depth to the female characters, letting them speak and sing in the fullness of their hearts. Desdemona is an extraordinary narrative of words, music and song about Shakespeares doomed heroine, who speaks from the grave about the traumas of race, class, gender, ... continue
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Omicidio a Timbuctù by Moussa Konaté IT
Description:
Il commissario Habib deve indagare sulla morte di un membro della tribù dei Tuareg. Si dovrà destreggiare tra il pericolo di un sospetto atto terroristico e un mondo dove le tradizioni e le credenze religiose sono ben radicate
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De onvermijdelijkheid van geweld : roman by Yambo Ouologuem NL
Description:
'De onvermijdelijkheid van geweld' neemt de lezer mee naar het imaginaire rijk Nakem en de eeuwen durende dynastie van de Saïfs, die er als listige heersers de baas spelen. Via deze kroniek lezen we over de miskende geschiedenis van Afrika, die ons van binnenuit wordt voorgeschoteld. Geweld, moordpartijen. listen, notabelen die het bij de slavenhandel niet zo nauw nemen met hun geweten: Yambo Ouologuem neemt geen blad voor de mond bij dit portret van zijn continent. Evenmin houdt hij zich in wat zijn stijl en zijn toon betreft, van bijtende ironie tot teugelloze erotiek. Daarentegen worden Eur... continue
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The Lieutenant of Kouta by Massa Makan Diabaté EN
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The Lieutenant of Kouta is the first novel in Massa Makan Diabaté’s award-winning trilogy. Featuring an introduction by leading Diabaté scholar Cheick M. Chérif Keïta and Shane Auerbach, it tells the story, part tragicomic and part hagiographic, of an African lieutenant in the French Army who returns as a decorated hero from the battlefields of Europe to Kouta, a fictionalized version of the author’s own birthplace, the Malian town of Kita. Upon his return, Siriman Keita finds it difficult to adjust to village life as he navigates traditional customs in his attempts to create his place in the ... continue
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The Desert and the Drum by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk EN
Country: Africa / 
Mauritania
Mauritania
Description:
"The Desert and the Drum reveals a hidden Bedouin world and what happens when its values clash with those of contemporary urban life. It was awarded the Ahmadou-Kourouma Prize in 2016 and is the first novel from Mauritania to be translated into English. Everything changes for Rayhana when foreigners with strange machines arrive to mine for metal near her Bedouin camp. One of them is the enigmatic Yahya. Her association with him leads to Rayhana to abandon all that she has ever known and flee alone to the city. But when her tribe discover she has stolen their sacred drum, they pursue her to exa... continue
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Estoy solo by Beyrouk ES
Country: Africa / Mauritania
Mauritania
Description:
Está encerrado, su vida corre peligro. Y piensa, narra. Narra sus pensamientos, sus miedos, sus tímidos deseos. Sus recuerdos, sus ideas, sus opiniones.
Trata de mantener la esperanza, de no flaquear; no es un hombre valiente, ni tampoco un hombre virtuoso, salvo con las palabras. Y espera.
La religiosidad y sencillez de su madre, criada en el nomadismo del Sahara; el antepasado, campeón de la Fe. Los celosos celadores de la Fe y el deber. El amor y el placer, el dinero, a veces tan escaso, y otras tan accesible y tentador.
"...yo, madre, soy un tipo de lo m&... continue
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Rabia est arrivée : chroniques du Trarza : récit by Aichetou FR
Country: Africa / Mauritania
Mauritania
Description:
La mère de Rabia, sa fille ou leurs autres compagnes avaient-elles été capturées, achetées ou volées? Dieu seul sait. Au cours des veillées, quand Rabia se faisait conteuse, jamais elle ne s'était hasardée à parler de ce passé-là, l'ayant enseveli dans un autre Moi, trop lointain et peut-être inconnu d'ailleurs d'elle-même. Comment avait-elle pu se trouver dans ce campement nomade, avec ces Bédouins?
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Barzakh: The Land In-Between by Moussa Ould Ebnou EN
Country: Africa / Mauritania
Mauritania
Description:
In the distant future, archeologists, studying the land of Barzakh in the Sahara, extract the ancient consciousness of Gara whose life they trace through the 11th-century deserts of Mauritania to the dystopic future as he searches for freedom and better humanity. This innovative masterpiece symphonizes mysticism, religion, philosophy, and Mauritanian culture into a surreal reflection on the human condition.
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Silence of the Horizons by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk EN
Country: Africa / Mauritania
Mauritania
Description:
SILENCE OF THE HORIZONS by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk (short version) A young Mauritanian man flees the scene of a crime to hide out in the Sahara with his friend who conducts tours for wealthy European families eager to discover the "real" desert. As he regales the tourists' children with tales of djinns and far-off worlds, he must grapple with his own moral conscience in this existential psychological thriller that resonates with Albert Camus' classic novel, The Stranger and Antoine de St. Exupéry's memoir, Wind, Sand and Stars.