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Listopia > Brooks Goddard's votes on the list Books about AFRICA or by AFRICAN AUTHORS (37 Books)
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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"A fine novel that makes you feel the human dimensions of the Biafra War. Now read Americanah."
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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
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"Just take the time and read this trilogy. It's long but absorbing."
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Cutting for Stone
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"Mayflower hospitals? Who knew?"
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rated it 4 stars
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Say You're One of Them
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"Sad but moving."
Brooks
rated it 4 stars
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Waiting for the Barbarians
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"One of the great allegories of our time."
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Purple Hibiscus
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"Adichie's got it, and this book sings."
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Season of Migration to the North
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"A mystifying book that will haunt you."
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Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
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So Long a Letter
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"You want patrimony?"
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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"This and Tree are fabulous memoirs that are truthful and loving, even if the subjects are dysfunctional. "
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What Is the What
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"A brilliant conceit frames this novel."
Brooks
rated it 5 stars
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The Covenant
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"Really a good book to understand the Boers."
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The Joys of Motherhood
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"Some joy."
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard
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"Now you see him, now you don't."
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Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
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"OK, reads therm. Personally I liked Shadows better."
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God's Bits of Wood
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"Read this book to understand how villagers took on the city folks."
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Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family
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"One of the best animals behavior books you'll ever read."
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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"Now here is an autodidact. And, go ahead, try this at your home."
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rated it 5 stars
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African Air
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"Great photography by a man who put his life passion to work."
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The House at Sugar Beach
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"A must read and powerful story."
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Ancestor Stones
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Aya (Aya, #1)
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"Great comic novel and series which shows how African kids are much like teenagers everywhere."
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Serengeti: Natural Order on the African Plain
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"Fantastic photography from the ground."
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Ladysmith
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"Read this and other books by the same author . History is the guise of fiction."
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Home and Exile
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Ways of Dying (Toloki #1)
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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
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"Better than Out of Africa."
Brooks
rated it 5 stars
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The Book of Negroes
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"We all should read this book about the arc of the life of one taken into slavery and then into history."
Brooks
rated it 5 stars
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Americanah
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"Both a love story and social criticism."
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Dreams in a Time of War
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"Better than his novels. The first book of memoirs which takes him to high school."
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GraceLand
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"Street life in Lagos with Elvis."
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My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience
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"Powerful commentary on both blacks and whites."
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Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
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"So powerful that you will have to read it in chapters"
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Waiting for an Angel
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The Madonna of Excelsior
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Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
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Harare North
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