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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as africana)
avg rating 3.75 — 412,645 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as africana)
avg rating 4.31 — 412,658 ratings — published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as africana)
avg rating 4.34 — 183,509 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as africana)
avg rating 4.47 — 403,219 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as africana)
avg rating 4.39 — 330,600 ratings — published 2012
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as africana)
avg rating 4.18 — 143,104 ratings — published 2003
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as africana)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,226 ratings — published 1999
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as africana)
avg rating 4.49 — 807,109 ratings — published 2016
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as africana)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,990 ratings — published 1988
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as africana)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,055 ratings — published 1998
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as africana)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,011 ratings — published 2008
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as africana)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,303 ratings — published 2010
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as africana)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,392 ratings — published 2013
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as africana)
avg rating 3.64 — 352,772 ratings — published 2018
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as africana)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,367 ratings — published 2013
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as africana)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,594 ratings — published 1948
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as africana)
avg rating 4.40 — 366,515 ratings — published 2015
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 3.94 — 85,954 ratings — published 2016
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 4.11 — 793,715 ratings — published 1998
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,227 ratings — published 2007
La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as africana)
avg rating 4.18 — 15,984 ratings — published 2021
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as africana)
avg rating 4.06 — 65,936 ratings — published 2017
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as africana)
avg rating 4.33 — 426,830 ratings — published 2009
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as africana)
avg rating 3.81 — 275,843 ratings — published 1998
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,306 ratings — published 1980
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,427 ratings — published 1961
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,356 ratings — published 1979
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,026 ratings — published 1961
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,829 ratings — published 1967
Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.98 — 60,862 ratings — published 2000
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.36 — 94,292 ratings — published 1994
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,636 ratings — published 2018
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.11 — 250,937 ratings — published 2018
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.72 — 33,638 ratings — published 1966
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,595 ratings — published 1991
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.91 — 48,050 ratings — published 1937
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.37 — 291,394 ratings — published 1965
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,165 ratings — published 1952
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,924 ratings — published 1903
Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.60 — 13,572 ratings — published 1994
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 4.10 — 162,378 ratings — published 2020
The Old Drift (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.73 — 7,575 ratings — published 2019
Our Lady of the Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,592 ratings — published 2012
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 4.50 — 88,286 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 4.55 — 121,142 ratings — published 1963
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,401,706 ratings — published 1942
God's Bits of Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,126 ratings — published 1960
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,406 ratings — published 1971
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,918 ratings — published 1981
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.92 — 202,026 ratings — published 1952
“There really is no way to prove to someone else the fullness of your own life. Your true experience is the only proof.”
― Dream Count
― Dream Count
“Most people write me off when they see me.
They do not know my story.
They say I am just an African.
They judge me before they get to know me.
What they do not know is
The pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;
The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;
The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;
The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;
The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.
Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.
So you think I am nothing?
Don’t worry about what I am now,
For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.
I will raise my head high wherever I go
Because of my African pride,
And nobody will take that away from me.”
― Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
They do not know my story.
They say I am just an African.
They judge me before they get to know me.
What they do not know is
The pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;
The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;
The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;
The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;
The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.
Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.
So you think I am nothing?
Don’t worry about what I am now,
For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.
I will raise my head high wherever I go
Because of my African pride,
And nobody will take that away from me.”
― Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
