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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.75 — 426,100 ratings — published 1958
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.18 — 151,000 ratings — published 2003
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.34 — 192,492 ratings — published 2006
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.31 — 426,235 ratings — published 2013
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.47 — 428,292 ratings — published 2016
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,846 ratings — published 2008
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.48 — 846,932 ratings — published 2016
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 35 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,599 ratings — published 1961
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.63 — 379,468 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.39 — 341,532 ratings — published 2012
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,802 ratings — published 1964
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.00 — 13,553 ratings — published 1980
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,443 ratings — published 2024
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,083 ratings — published 2010
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.06 — 68,603 ratings — published 2017
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,770 ratings — published 1979
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,291 ratings — published 1988
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,849 ratings — published 2013
A Man of the People (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,765 ratings — published 1966
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.42 — 180,814 ratings — published 2020
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,517 ratings — published 2020
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,546 ratings — published 2016
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.10 — 259,149 ratings — published 2018
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,521 ratings — published 1968
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,238 ratings — published 1967
The River Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,642 ratings — published 1965
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.50 — 90,263 ratings — published 2017
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,526 ratings — published 2015
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,565 ratings — published 2013
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,918 ratings — published 2004
Weep Not Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,506 ratings — published 1964
Petals of Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,830 ratings — published 1977
His Only Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.73 — 34,159 ratings — published 2020
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,914 ratings — published 2015
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,141 ratings — published 1981
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.09 — 168,383 ratings — published 2020
A Girl Is a Body of Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,184 ratings — published 2020
The Concubine (AWS African Writers Series)
by (shelved 13 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,524 ratings — published 1966
Kintu (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,763 ratings — published 2014
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,577 ratings — published 2011
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,929 ratings — published 1991
Anthills of the Savannah (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,692 ratings — published 1987
Woman at Point Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.25 — 35,166 ratings — published 1975
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.14 — 419,030 ratings — published 2014
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.76 — 54,736 ratings — published 2025
The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,541 ratings — published 2021
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.30 — 597,938 ratings — published 1969
This Mournable Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.34 — 5,153 ratings — published 2018
Hlomu the Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,517 ratings — published 2020
How to Write About Africa: Collected Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.34 — 662 ratings — published 2006
“I sit by the embers of our dead love, still burning for you.”
― These Things
― These Things
“Each time a child goes up as an incendiary, something within me rips open. Until a day of reckoning comes I don’t think I will ever get over the self-immolation of each of those children. And my words are inadequate to show the depth of my grief or my anger. Nothing can. Only my deliberations with silence.”
― I Will Be Silent
― I Will Be Silent
