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Cursed Daughters
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Futility
Firstborn of the Sun
The Stolen Queen
Cursed Daughters
Dream Count
Notes on Grief
Death of the Author
The Message
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Gabriel's Moon
Maame
Transcendent Kingdom
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
All the Glimmering Stars
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
The Death of Vivek Oji
Ce que je sais de toi
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
The Poisonwood Bible
Homegoing
Half of a Yellow Sun
Americanah
Heart of Darkness
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
Purple Hibiscus
Cutting for Stone
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Out of Africa
Cry, the Beloved Country
My Sister, the Serial Killer
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Fantasy - Beyond the English Language
397 books — 144 voters
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Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,754 books — 1,633 voters

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Books on Rwanda genocide
90 books — 102 voters
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Best Non-fiction War Books
2,123 books — 2,357 voters

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Of Kings and Queens
450 books — 197 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Fictitious Africa
547 books — 265 voters


Winston S. Churchill
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its digni ...more
Winston Churchill, The River War

Graham Greene
I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here. ...more
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

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