Reading Suggestion: African Authors Edition

Reading Suggestion: African Authors Edition
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Starting to put together books by African authors:

  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
  • So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ (Senegal)
  • The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga
  • The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah
  • The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Kenya)
  • God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène (Senegal)
  • Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
  • Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
  • Ake: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka
  • Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
  • In the Country of My Dreams... by Marie NDiaye

If you have suggestions, add to the list.