Read Around Africa Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.
Best books from Africa (1152)
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Jeté en pâture by Adélaïde Fassinou FR
BeninDescription:
L'histoire d'Alain et Fanta avait commencé sur les bords de Seine, où leurs parents étaient en poste dans les ambassades de leurs pays respectifs. Alain, l'unique garçon de la famille était, par la suite, resté en France afin que lui soit épargné toutes les misères auxquelles sont confrontés les jeunes en Afrique: déscolarisation, violence, année blanche, guerres tribales. C'est pour échapper à tous ces maux que Fanta rejoint le pays d'Alain, où après leurs retrouvailles, celui-ci est jeté en prison car accusé de détournement de mineur.
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Far and Beyon’ by Unity Dow EN
BotswanaDescription:
"Far and Beyon'" is a captivating novel by an exciting new voice in African literature.
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Call and Response by Gothataone Moeng EN
Description:
'A terrific collection' Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane and Love Marriage A Most Anticipated Title for Oprah Daily, Essence, BuzzFeed, The Millions and Brittle Paper Full of heart and humour, Gothataone Moeng's first collection, set between the rural village of Serowe and the thrumming capital city of Gaborone, captures a chorus of voices from a country in flux. Meet a young woman who has worn the same mourning clothes for almost a year, and a teenage girl who shies away from the room where her once vibrant aunt lies dying. Elsewhere, watch as a younger sister hides her romantic exploits from... continue
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Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase EN
Description:
"A fierce, furious, and fearless debut that has its finger on the pulse--no, the gushing wound--of our world's most invasive cruelties." --Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Shape of Water "Masterful . . . Tsamaase has created a disturbing techno dystopia in a future Botswana that terrifies with its echoes of our own increasingly authoritarian cyber-policed world. This beautifully written work haunts and upends expectations with its resurrected ghosts and gods and ancestors of Motswana cosmology. What an accomplished debut!" --T. L. Huchu, Caine Prize finalist and author... continue
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Saturday Is for Funerals by Unity Dow, Myron Essex EN
Description:
Dow and Essex tell the true story of lives in Botswana ravaged by AIDS. Witness the actions of community leaders, medical professionals, research scientists, and educators of all types to see how an unprecedented epidemic of death and destruction is being stopped in its tracks.
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The Heavens May Fall by Unity Dow EN
Description:
Unity Dow's fourth novel tells the story of Naledi Chaba, a young attorney who has to battle prejudices within the legal profession and in the broader society. Her clients are mainly women and children, and she finds that under traditional law and modern Botswana law they are without protection.
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The Silence of the Wilting Skin by Tlotlo Tsamaase EN
Description:
In an African city, a nameless young woman living in the wards slowly begins to lose her identity: her skin color is peeling off, people are becoming invisible, and the city plans to destroy the train where they bury their dead. After the narrator is given a warning by her grandmother's dreamskin, things begin to fall apart. Struggling to hold onto a fluctuating reality, she prescribes herself insomnia in a desperate attempt to save her family.
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The Careless Seamstress by Tjawangwa Dema EN
Description:
This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Dema’s collection, The Careless Seamstress, evokes the national and the subjective while reemphasizing that what is personal is always political. The girls and women in these poems are not mere objects; they speak, labor, and gaze back, with difficulty and consequence. The tropes are familiar, but in their animation they question and move in unexpected ways. The female body—as a daughter, wife, worker, cultural mutineer—moves continually acr... continue
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Description:
If you enjoy the likes of The Number No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency books, Kasane may just be right up your alley. Kasane is a story that follows the life of a young lady, Tori, as she starts an adventure in Kasane, home to one of the world's hidden wonders. A town known for its casual wildlife. A town where warthogs roam the streets and elephants wander from Choppies to Shoprite. In this taut thriller, Tori forms new friendships, reconnects with old acquaintances, and creates unbreakable bonds, while trying to solve a mind-boggling mystery that lurks in the Chobe.
