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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as africana)
avg rating 3.75 — 428,943 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as africana)
avg rating 4.31 — 428,667 ratings — published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as africana)
avg rating 4.34 — 194,281 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as africana)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,937 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as africana)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,694 ratings — published 2012
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as africana)
avg rating 4.18 — 152,548 ratings — published 2003
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as africana)
avg rating 4.48 — 856,225 ratings — published 2016
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as africana)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,594 ratings — published 1988
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as africana)
avg rating 3.86 — 122,590 ratings — published 1999
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as africana)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,930 ratings — published 2013
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as africana)
avg rating 4.22 — 52,187 ratings — published 2008
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as africana)
avg rating 3.93 — 29,177 ratings — published 2010
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as africana)
avg rating 4.20 — 74,052 ratings — published 1998
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as africana)
avg rating 3.63 — 386,475 ratings — published 2018
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as africana)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,605 ratings — published 2013
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as africana)
avg rating 3.93 — 81,604 ratings — published 1948
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as africana)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,842 ratings — published 2015
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 4.00 — 13,833 ratings — published 1980
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 3.94 — 88,037 ratings — published 2016
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 4.12 — 817,296 ratings — published 1998
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,397 ratings — published 2007
La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as africana)
avg rating 4.17 — 17,950 ratings — published 2021
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as africana)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,405 ratings — published 1961
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as africana)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,994 ratings — published 1991
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as africana)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,340 ratings — published 1967
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.06 — 69,125 ratings — published 2017
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.34 — 441,176 ratings — published 2009
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,805 ratings — published 1963
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,863 ratings — published 1979
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,698 ratings — published 1961
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.81 — 280,623 ratings — published 1998
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.36 — 98,438 ratings — published 1991
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.91 — 49,940 ratings — published 1937
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,131 ratings — published 1903
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.76 — 56,583 ratings — published 2025
Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.60 — 15,056 ratings — published 1994
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.09 — 169,205 ratings — published 2020
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,417 ratings — published 2018
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.10 — 261,485 ratings — published 2018
Our Lady of the Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,998 ratings — published 2012
Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.98 — 62,553 ratings — published 2000
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,207 ratings — published 1981
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,744 ratings — published 1965
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,964 ratings — published 2020
The Old Drift (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.73 — 7,969 ratings — published 2019
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,786 ratings — published 1966
God's Bits of Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,246 ratings — published 1960
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.71 — 4,117 ratings — published 1952
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,413 ratings — published 1971
“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
“History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are, but more importantly, what they must be.”
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