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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as africana)
avg rating 3.75 — 423,222 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as africana)
avg rating 4.31 — 423,099 ratings — published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as africana)
avg rating 4.34 — 190,291 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as africana)
avg rating 4.47 — 422,548 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as africana)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,140 ratings — published 2012
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as africana)
avg rating 4.18 — 149,224 ratings — published 2003
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as africana)
avg rating 4.49 — 837,139 ratings — published 2016
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as africana)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,031 ratings — published 1988
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as africana)
avg rating 3.86 — 120,666 ratings — published 1999
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as africana)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,758 ratings — published 2013
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as africana)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,443 ratings — published 2008
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 — 72,294 ratings — published 1998
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as africana)
avg rating 3.63 — 371,710 ratings — published 2018
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as africana)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,858 ratings — published 2010
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as africana)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,511 ratings — published 2013
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as africana)
avg rating 3.93 — 80,790 ratings — published 1948
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as africana)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,332 ratings — published 2015
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 4.00 — 13,291 ratings — published 1980
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,222 ratings — published 2016
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 4.12 — 807,955 ratings — published 1998
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,344 ratings — published 2007
La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as africana)
avg rating 4.17 — 17,247 ratings — published 2021
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as africana)
avg rating 4.34 — 436,401 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 — 278,871 ratings — published 1998
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as africana)
avg rating 3.91 — 49,266 ratings — published 1937
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.06 — 67,969 ratings — published 2017
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,392 ratings — published 1961
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,666 ratings — published 1979
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,817 ratings — published 1991
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,467 ratings — published 1961
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,153 ratings — published 1967
Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.98 — 61,874 ratings — published 2000
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.36 — 96,293 ratings — published 1991
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.77 — 52,840 ratings — published 2025
Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.59 — 14,531 ratings — published 1994
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.09 — 167,148 ratings — published 2020
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.00 — 37,843 ratings — published 2018
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.10 — 256,368 ratings — published 2018
Our Lady of the Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,830 ratings — published 2012
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.55 — 128,262 ratings — published 1963
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,946 ratings — published 1966
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.37 — 297,838 ratings — published 1965
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,815 ratings — published 1952
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,289 ratings — published 1952
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,797 ratings — published 1903
The Old Drift (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.73 — 7,839 ratings — published 2019
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 4.31 — 289,358 ratings — published 1979
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.99 — 397,688 ratings — published 1937
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,492,471 ratings — published 1942
God's Bits of Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,205 ratings — published 1960
“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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“You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.”
― Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
― Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
