Read Around Africa Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Africa.
Best books from Africa (1154)
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The Pink Line : The World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser EN
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
The Pink Line tells the story of how 'LGBT Rights' became one of the world's new human rights frontiers in the second decade of the twenty-first century. From refugees in South Africa to activists in Egypt, transgender women in Russia and pen manaam konda aan (women's hearts in men's bodies) in Tamil Nadu, The Pink Line folds intimate and deeply affecting stories of individuals, families and communities into a definitive account of how the world has changed, so dramatically, in just a decade. And in doing so the book reveals a troubling new equation that has come in to play: while same-sex mar... continue
972.
To My Children's Children by Sindiwe Magona EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
This powerful and widely acclaimed autobiography of Sindiwe Magona's early years in South Africa, announced the arrival of a major new black writer. Here she gives an account of her eventful first 23 years and tells a candid, unself-pitying story of triumph and endurance in the face of hardships relentlessly reinforced by the apartheid system.
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Six Feet of the Country by Nadine Gordimer EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Seven stories of South Africa deal with a missing body, a mysterious Rhodesian visitor, a pass law protest, a white geologist and his Black secretary, and a pair of childhood sweethearts.
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Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth by J. R. R. Tolkien EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
This collection of narratives ranges in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring. It comprises such elements as Gandalf's account of how he came to send the Dwarves to the party at Bag-End and stories of the Five Wizards.
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Bilbo le hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien FR
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Bilbo, comme tous les hobbits, est un petit etre paisible qui n'aime pas etre derange quand il est a table. L'aventure lui tombe dessus comme la foudre, quand le magicien Gandalf et treize nains barbus viennent lui parler de tresor, d'expedition perilleuse, et du dragon Smaug... qu'il va affronter. Car Bilbo doit partir avec eux ! Et le plus extraordinaire, c'est que le hobbit affrontera tous les dangers, sans jamais perdre son humour, meme s'il tremblera plus d'une fois.
976.
The Book of Lost Tales: Part One by J.R.R. Tolkien EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
The extraordinary history of Middle-earth, edited by Christopher Tolkien The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor. Embedded in English legend and English association, they were set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or Ælfwine) to Tol Eressëa, the Lonely Isle, where Elves dwelt; from them he learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In the Tales are found the earliest accounts and original ideas of Gods and Elves; Dwarves and Orcs; the Silmarils and the Two Trees of... continue
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La fraternité de l'anneau by J. R. R. Tolkien FR
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Depuis sa publication en 1954-1955, Le Seigneur des Anneaux a enchanté des dizaines de millions de lecteurs dans le monde entier, et donné vie à la fantasy moderne, en racontant les aventures de Frodo et de ses compagnons, traversant la Terre du Milieu au péril de leur vie pour détruire l'Anneau forgé par Sauron, le Seigneur des Anneaux. Mais depuis quelques années, de nombreux lecteurs français et francophones souhaitaient qu'une nouvelle traduction, quarante ans après la première (1972), prenne en compte la meilleure version du texte anglais (débarrassé de ses coquilles depuis 2004) ainsi qu... continue
978.
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Bennie Griessel still knows enough to head up the police team tracking 'Artemis', a vigilante killer who targets child murderers. The killer is in fact Thobela Mpayipheli, a former freedom fighter robbed of everything by the murder of his son. And when Griessel's daughter is kidnapped, his world and Thobela's converge towards a devastating climax.
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Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons by J. M. Coetzee EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown; she is f-ted, studied, honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. One of a new breed of intellectual nomads, her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she i... continue
980.
Summertime by J. M. Coetzee EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
This brilliant new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" and "Diary of a Bad Year" allows Coetzee to imagine his own life, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being.