Read Around Africa Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.
Best books from Africa (1152)
Tunisia
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في قلبي أنثى عبرية by د.خولة حمدي AR
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لم تكن قد بلغت التاسعة من عمرها حين توفيت والدتها. أما والدها فقد توفي قبلها بسنوات، مخلفًا عائلته الصغيرة تعيش الفاقة والحرمان. وكان يجب على الأرملة الوحيدة أن تبحث عن عمل. لم يكن بإمكانها أن ترفض عرض جيرانها اليهود الأغنياء بالعمل عندهم كمدبرة منزل، فهم سيوفرون لها المسكن والمأكل، ويتكفلون برعاية ابنتها الصغيرة، حتى تواصل تعليمها وتنشأ في ظروف مناسبة. ولم يكن اختلاف الديانة ليغير في الأمر شيئًا. طوال سنوات من التجاور، نشأت علاقة فريدة من نوعها بين العائلتين، ما جعلهما موضع سخرية من البعض، وحسد من البعض الآخر. نشأت ريما بين أحضان عائلة جاكوب اليهودية وهم يعتبرونها فردًا منهم. فقد كانت بهجة ال... continue
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Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi EN
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Uganda's history reimagined through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan in an award-winning debut.
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After The Fall by Charity Norman EN
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In the quiet of a New Zealand winter's night, a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He's fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse, and his condition is critical. At first, Finn's fall looks like a horrible accident; after all, he's prone to sleepwalking. Only his frantic mother, Martha McNamara, knows how it happened. And she isn't telling. Not yet. Maybe not ever. Tragedy isn't what the McNamara family expected when they moved to New Zealand. For Martha, it was an escape. For her artist husband Kit, it was a dream. For their... continue
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Abyssinian Chronicles : A Novel by Moses Isegawa EN
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Every once in a while there emerges a literary voice with the power and urgency to immerse readers deep within a previously "invisible" culture. From a young African writer who has already earned comparisons to Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes this masterful saga of life in 20th-century Uganda. The teller of this panoramic tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early 1960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a depos... continue
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A Bigger Picture : My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate EN
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"First published 2021 by One Boat, an imprint of Pan Macmillan"--Copyright page.
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A Girl is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi EN
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“Makumbi is such an honest, truthful writer. . . . I loved every single page.” —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage A Best Book of the Year at TIME; The Washington Post; O, the Oprah Magazine; BBC Winner of the Jhalak Prize In her thirteenth year, Kirabo confronts a piercing question: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small Ugandan village of Nattetta—her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts—but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow. Seeking answers from Nsuuta, the local witch, Kirabo learns about the woman who birthed her, who she dis... continue
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The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi EN
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A dazzling feminist coming of age tale from the award-winning author of Kintu