Reading Africa

By Lolwe

Reading Africa

By Lolwe

An A-Z guide to reading literature from Africa. This is a list in progress and will be updated regularly. You can view the original list here: https://medium.com/@troyonyango/reading-africa-a134944504c

The Angels Die

Yasmina Khadra

£8.99 £8.54

Algeria

Transparent City

Ondjaki

£12.99 £12.34

Angola

Cantata For Jimmy

Rashidah Ismaili

£12.95

Benin

When Rain Clouds Gather And Maru

Bessie Head

£9.99 £9.49

Botswana

So Distant From My Life

Monique Ilboudo

£9.99 £9.49

Burkina Faso

Small Country

Gael Faye

£9.99 £9.49

Rwanda

The Madwoman of Serrano

Dina Salustio

£11.99 £11.39

Cape Verde

How Beautiful We Were

Imbolo Mbue

£9.99 £9.49

Cameroon

Co-wives, co-widows

Adrienne Yabouza

£9.99 £9.49

Central African Republic

A Girl Called Eel

Ali Zamir

£8.99 £8.54

Comoros

The Selfless Act of Breathing

JJ Bola

£8.99 £8.54

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Black Moses: Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017

Alain Mabanckou

£9.99 £9.49

Congo

Standing Heavy: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

GAUZ

£12.00 £11.40

Cote d'Ivoire

Why Do You Dance When You Walk

Abdourahman A. Waberi

£12.99 £12.34

Djibouti

La Bastarda

Trifonia Melibea Obono

£11.99 £11.39

Equatorial Guinea

The Feeling House

Saleh Addonia

£9.99 £9.49

Eritrea

The Shadow King

Maaza Mengiste

£9.99 £9.49

Ethiopia

Mema

Daniel Mengara

£12.50

Gabon

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

£9.99 £9.49

Ghana

The Ultimate Tragedy

Addulai Sila

£9.99 £9.49

Guinea-Bissau

Dust

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

£9.99 £9.49

Kenya

She Would Be King

WAYETU MOORE

£12.99 £12.34

Liberia

Beyond The Rice Fields

Naivo

£15.99 £15.19

Madagascar

Bound to Violence

Yambo Ouologuem

£18.99 £18.04

Mali

Barzakh: The Land In-Between

Moussa Ould Ebnou

£23.95 £22.75

Mauritania

Eve out of Her Ruins

Ananda Devi

£7.99 £7.59

Mauritius

The Joyful Song of the Partridge

Paulina Chiziane

£22.00

Mozambique

The Eternal Audience of One

Remy Ngamije

£12.99 £12.34

Namibia

Tina Shot Me Between the Eyes

Antoinette Tidjani Alou

£12.95

Niger

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

£9.99 £9.49

Nigeria

Our Lady of the Nile

Scholastique Mukasonga

£9.99 £9.49

At Night All Blood is Black: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021

DAVID DIOP

£9.99 £9.49

Senegal

Fairytales for Lost Children

Diriye Osman

£12.48

Somalia

Thirteen Cents: A Novel

K. Sello Duiker

£15.99

South Africa

River Spirit

Leila Aboulela

£16.99 £16.14

Sudan

Afterlives

ABDULRAZAK GURNAH

£6.90 £6.56

Tanzania

Shadow of Things to Come

Kossi Efoui

£9.99

Togo

The First Woman: Winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

£9.99 £9.49

Uganda

The Old Drift

Namwali Serpell

£10.99 £10.44

Zambia

Nervous Conditions

Tsitsi Dangarembga

£9.99 £9.49

Zimbabwe