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African Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 614 times as african)
avg rating 3.74 — 410,612 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 369 times as african)
avg rating 4.31 — 410,339 ratings — published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 348 times as african)
avg rating 4.34 — 182,096 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as african)
avg rating 4.47 — 399,695 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as african)
avg rating 4.18 — 141,873 ratings — published 2003
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as african)
avg rating 3.86 — 116,616 ratings — published 1999
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as african)
avg rating 3.64 — 349,162 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as african)
avg rating 4.49 — 799,552 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 154 times as african)
avg rating 4.39 — 328,206 ratings — published 2012
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as african)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,829 ratings — published 1988
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as african)
avg rating 4.06 — 65,465 ratings — published 2017
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as african)
avg rating 4.22 — 49,677 ratings — published 2008
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as african)
avg rating 4.42 — 172,203 ratings — published 2020
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as african)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,262 ratings — published 2010
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as african)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,793 ratings — published 2015
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as african)
avg rating 4.11 — 249,925 ratings — published 2018
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as african)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,337 ratings — published 2013
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as african)
avg rating 4.12 — 67,812 ratings — published 2020
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as african)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,181 ratings — published 1980
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 92 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,944 ratings — published 1961
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as african)
avg rating 3.81 — 275,310 ratings — published 1998
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as african)
avg rating 4.10 — 161,500 ratings — published 2020
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as african)
avg rating 3.72 — 33,369 ratings — published 1966
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as african)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,803 ratings — published 2007
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,367 ratings — published 1948
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,643 ratings — published 1980
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as african)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,776 ratings — published 1967
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as african)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,476 ratings — published 2018
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as african)
avg rating 4.33 — 424,888 ratings — published 2009
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as african)
avg rating 3.94 — 85,705 ratings — published 2016
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as african)
avg rating 4.11 — 790,773 ratings — published 1998
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as african)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,560 ratings — published 1991
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as african)
avg rating 4.51 — 87,980 ratings — published 2017
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as african)
avg rating 4.03 — 38,308 ratings — published 2011
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 70 times as african)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,224 ratings — published 1964
At Night All Blood is Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as african)
avg rating 3.80 — 28,154 ratings — published 2018
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as african)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,689 ratings — published 2015
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as african)
avg rating 4.36 — 93,849 ratings — published 1994
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as african)
avg rating 3.84 — 80,207 ratings — published 2015
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as african)
avg rating 3.43 — 555,897 ratings — published 1899
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,754 ratings — published 2004
His Only Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as african)
avg rating 3.73 — 32,930 ratings — published 2020
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as african)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,323 ratings — published 2013
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as african)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,305 ratings — published 1979
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,429 ratings — published 1968
Life & Times of Michael K (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 21,151 ratings — published 1983
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 52 times as african)
avg rating 3.80 — 39,415 ratings — published 2025
A Spell of Good Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as african)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,939 ratings — published 2023
The Shadow King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as african)
avg rating 3.65 — 14,898 ratings — published 2019
“America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big teeth that bite and hurt. And we take care of America. We hold America to our bosom; we feed America, we make love to America. There wouldn't be an America if it wasn't for black people. So you have some dedicated black Americans who will die a million deaths to save America. And this is home for us. We don't know really about Africa. We talk it in a romantic sense, but America is it. And so, America is always going to be okay as long as black people don't totally lose their mind, cause we'll pick up the pieces and turn it into a new dance.”
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“When Africans were kidnapped, trafficked en masse and brutally dragged in chains to work camps in the “New World,” called plantations, we hid our deities and rituals in stories of saints, angels, and legendary characters. Our deities included a powerful cadre of orishas, abosom, lwas, álúsí, spirits, and god/desses. From South Africa to Sudan, Brazil to Cuba to even Indigenous Australia, we chant their names: Yemaya, Mami Wata, Atete, Iset, and Ala.”
― African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
― African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
