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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 637 times as african)
avg rating 3.75 — 427,410 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 376 times as african)
avg rating 4.31 — 427,410 ratings — published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 365 times as african)
avg rating 4.34 — 193,355 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 311 times as african)
avg rating 4.46 — 430,595 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as african)
avg rating 4.18 — 151,739 ratings — published 2003
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as african)
avg rating 3.63 — 382,850 ratings — published 2018
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as african)
avg rating 3.86 — 122,077 ratings — published 1999
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as african)
avg rating 4.48 — 851,542 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 162 times as african)
avg rating 4.39 — 342,529 ratings — published 2012
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as african)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,434 ratings — published 1988
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as african)
avg rating 4.06 — 68,840 ratings — published 2017
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as african)
avg rating 4.22 — 52,028 ratings — published 2008
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as african)
avg rating 4.42 — 181,460 ratings — published 2020
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as african)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,243 ratings — published 2010
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as african)
avg rating 4.10 — 260,346 ratings — published 2018
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as african)
avg rating 3.88 — 23,004 ratings — published 2015
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as african)
avg rating 4.00 — 13,686 ratings — published 1980
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as african)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,736 ratings — published 2020
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as african)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,889 ratings — published 2013
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as african)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,564 ratings — published 1966
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as african)
avg rating 4.09 — 168,784 ratings — published 2020
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 93 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,648 ratings — published 1961
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as african)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,100 ratings — published 2007
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as african)
avg rating 3.81 — 280,140 ratings — published 1998
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as african)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,287 ratings — published 1967
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 81,362 ratings — published 1948
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,296 ratings — published 1980
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as african)
avg rating 4.12 — 815,032 ratings — published 1998
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as african)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,270 ratings — published 2018
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as african)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,971 ratings — published 1991
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as african)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,763 ratings — published 2016
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as african)
avg rating 4.50 — 90,412 ratings — published 2017
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as african)
avg rating 4.34 — 440,056 ratings — published 2009
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as african)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,231 ratings — published 2011
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 73 times as african)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,860 ratings — published 1964
At Night All Blood is Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as african)
avg rating 3.79 — 30,810 ratings — published 2018
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as african)
avg rating 3.43 — 576,984 ratings — published 1899
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as african)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,952 ratings — published 2015
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as african)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,600 ratings — published 2015
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as african)
avg rating 4.36 — 97,633 ratings — published 1991
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as african)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,807 ratings — published 1979
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as african)
avg rating 3.76 — 55,603 ratings — published 2025
His Only Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 3.73 — 34,245 ratings — published 2020
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,581 ratings — published 2013
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,535 ratings — published 1968
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,932 ratings — published 2004
Life & Times of Michael K (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,032 ratings — published 1983
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as african)
avg rating 3.71 — 4,086 ratings — published 1952
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 29,067 ratings — published 2010
“You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.”
― Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
― Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
“I don't want people to think I mind being mistaken for African American. I don't. There are, however, many African immigrants in America who, to climb the social ladder, resist being categorized, by white people, with African Americans. Some even go so far as to claim superiority. This is not surprising. In America, the racial hierarchy has white at the top and black on the bottom. *We're not that kind of black,* I have heard a member of my own family--an uncle-- argue when a white person leveled a racism insult against him. Given this, is is also not surprising that there exists some animosity between the African immigrant and African-American communities.”
― Aftershocks
― Aftershocks
