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African Writers Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.75 — 420,830 ratings — published 1958
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.34 — 188,700 ratings — published 2006
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.31 — 420,855 ratings — published 2013
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.18 — 147,881 ratings — published 2003
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.47 — 418,024 ratings — published 2016
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,107 ratings — published 2008
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.49 — 829,623 ratings — published 2016
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 35 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,377 ratings — published 1961
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.63 — 367,982 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.39 — 337,385 ratings — published 2012
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,613 ratings — published 1964
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.00 — 13,131 ratings — published 1980
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,045 ratings — published 2024
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,436 ratings — published 2010
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.06 — 67,517 ratings — published 2017
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,594 ratings — published 1979
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,814 ratings — published 1988
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,691 ratings — published 2013
A Man of the People (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,682 ratings — published 1966
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.42 — 178,097 ratings — published 2020
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.11 — 69,612 ratings — published 2020
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.10 — 255,040 ratings — published 2018
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.94 — 86,924 ratings — published 2016
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,489 ratings — published 1968
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,091 ratings — published 1967
The River Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,540 ratings — published 1965
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,199 ratings — published 2015
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,476 ratings — published 2013
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,857 ratings — published 2004
Weep Not Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,416 ratings — published 1964
Petals of Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,769 ratings — published 1977
His Only Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.73 — 33,710 ratings — published 2020
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.50 — 89,510 ratings — published 2017
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,343 ratings — published 2015
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,041 ratings — published 1981
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.09 — 166,077 ratings — published 2020
The Concubine (AWS African Writers Series)
by (shelved 13 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,493 ratings — published 1966
Kintu (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,661 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 — 2,539 ratings — published 2011
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,736 ratings — published 1991
Anthills of the Savannah (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,650 ratings — published 1987
Woman at Point Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.24 — 33,140 ratings — published 1975
A Girl Is a Body of Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,989 ratings — published 2020
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.14 — 410,448 ratings — published 2014
The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,442 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 — 591,721 ratings — published 1969
This Mournable Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.33 — 5,073 ratings — published 2018
Hlomu the Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,495 ratings — published 2020
How to Write About Africa: Collected Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.34 — 640 ratings — published 2006
Aké: The Years of Childhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,065 ratings — published 1981
“Watermaid
You walk
like a river
and I see you,
gliding over the tide,
each evening,
your feet
barely making prints
in the sands.”
― I Will Be Silent
You walk
like a river
and I see you,
gliding over the tide,
each evening,
your feet
barely making prints
in the sands.”
― I Will Be Silent
“Africans are among the best story-tellers in the world. African writers are farmers who grow stories.”
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