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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as africana)
avg rating 3.75 — 420,541 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as africana)
avg rating 4.31 — 420,600 ratings — published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as africana)
avg rating 4.34 — 188,504 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as africana)
avg rating 4.47 — 417,489 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as africana)
avg rating 4.39 — 337,158 ratings — published 2012
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as africana)
avg rating 4.18 — 147,736 ratings — published 2003
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as africana)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,779 ratings — published 1988
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as africana)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,730 ratings — published 1999
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as africana)
avg rating 4.49 — 828,757 ratings — published 2016
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as africana)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,684 ratings — published 2013
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as africana)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,074 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 — 71,404 ratings — published 1998
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as africana)
avg rating 3.63 — 367,461 ratings — published 2018
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as africana)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,716 ratings — published 2010
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as africana)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,471 ratings — published 2013
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as africana)
avg rating 3.93 — 80,445 ratings — published 1948
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as africana)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,616 ratings — published 2015
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 4.00 — 13,111 ratings — published 1980
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 3.94 — 86,878 ratings — published 2016
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 4.11 — 803,741 ratings — published 1998
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as africana)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,821 ratings — published 2007
La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as africana)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,942 ratings — published 2021
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as africana)
avg rating 4.34 — 434,071 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 — 278,077 ratings — published 1998
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.06 — 67,465 ratings — published 2017
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,892 ratings — published 1961
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,589 ratings — published 1979
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,731 ratings — published 1991
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,367 ratings — published 1961
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,084 ratings — published 1967
Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.98 — 61,606 ratings — published 2000
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 4.36 — 95,744 ratings — published 1994
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as africana)
avg rating 3.91 — 48,945 ratings — published 1937
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.77 — 51,055 ratings — published 2025
Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.59 — 14,275 ratings — published 1994
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.09 — 165,967 ratings — published 2020
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,522 ratings — published 2018
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.10 — 254,870 ratings — published 2018
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,544 ratings — published 1963
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,555 ratings — published 1966
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,198 ratings — published 1965
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,891 ratings — published 1952
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,033 ratings — published 1952
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as africana)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,620 ratings — published 1903
The Old Drift (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.73 — 7,776 ratings — published 2019
Our Lady of the Nile (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,772 ratings — published 2012
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 4.31 — 284,635 ratings — published 1979
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.99 — 394,942 ratings — published 1937
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,468,508 ratings — published 1942
God's Bits of Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as africana)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,192 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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“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
