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African Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 632 times as african)
avg rating 3.75 — 417,188 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 372 times as african)
avg rating 4.31 — 417,331 ratings — published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 355 times as african)
avg rating 4.34 — 186,319 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 298 times as african)
avg rating 4.47 — 411,588 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as african)
avg rating 4.18 — 145,757 ratings — published 2003
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as african)
avg rating 3.64 — 361,106 ratings — published 2018
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as african)
avg rating 3.86 — 118,655 ratings — published 1999
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as african)
avg rating 4.49 — 819,133 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 157 times as african)
avg rating 4.39 — 334,496 ratings — published 2012
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as african)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,457 ratings — published 1988
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as african)
avg rating 4.06 — 66,823 ratings — published 2017
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as african)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,621 ratings — published 2008
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as african)
avg rating 4.42 — 176,113 ratings — published 2020
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as african)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,041 ratings — published 2010
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as african)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,130 ratings — published 2015
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as african)
avg rating 4.10 — 253,186 ratings — published 2018
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as african)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,802 ratings — published 1980
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as african)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,564 ratings — published 2013
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as african)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,970 ratings — published 2020
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 95 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,216 ratings — published 1961
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as african)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,115 ratings — published 1966
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as african)
avg rating 4.10 — 164,578 ratings — published 2020
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as african)
avg rating 3.81 — 277,105 ratings — published 1998
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 80,062 ratings — published 1948
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as african)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,130 ratings — published 2007
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,258 ratings — published 1980
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as african)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,983 ratings — published 1967
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as african)
avg rating 4.11 — 799,269 ratings — published 1998
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as african)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,197 ratings — published 2018
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as african)
avg rating 4.34 — 431,057 ratings — published 2009
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as african)
avg rating 3.94 — 86,461 ratings — published 2016
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as african)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,671 ratings — published 1991
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as african)
avg rating 4.50 — 89,013 ratings — published 2017
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 73 times as african)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,458 ratings — published 1964
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as african)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,663 ratings — published 2011
At Night All Blood is Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as african)
avg rating 3.80 — 29,147 ratings — published 2018
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as african)
avg rating 3.84 — 81,358 ratings — published 2015
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as african)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,985 ratings — published 2015
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as african)
avg rating 4.36 — 95,092 ratings — published 1994
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as african)
avg rating 3.43 — 564,023 ratings — published 1899
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as african)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,422 ratings — published 2013
His Only Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 3.73 — 33,434 ratings — published 2020
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,480 ratings — published 1979
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,472 ratings — published 1968
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as african)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,808 ratings — published 2004
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as african)
avg rating 3.78 — 48,227 ratings — published 2025
Life & Times of Michael K (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 21,471 ratings — published 1983
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as african)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,864 ratings — published 1952
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,556 ratings — published 2010
A Spell of Good Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as african)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,195 ratings — published 2023
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Divine manifesting is collaboration with God/dess energy to mold our lives for the highest and best good of the collective. We are all manifesting our lives, albeit unconsciously for most people.”
― African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
― African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy












