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African Reads — progress and planning:Algeria Children of the New World, The Last Summer of Reason
Angola Transparent City
Benin Snares Without End
Botswana Maru✔️, A Question of Power
Burkina Faso
Burundi Baho!
Cabo Verde The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo, The Madwoman of Serrano
Cameroon Twilight of Torment: Melancholy
Central African Republic Co-Wives, Co-Widows
Chad Told by Starlight in Chad
Comoros A Girl Called Eel
Congo, Democratic Republic of The Lianja Epic, The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga, Tram 83
Congo, Republic of Black Moses
Côte de’Ivorie Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote, Aya✔️, In the Company of Men
Djibouti The Land Without Shadows
Egypt Palace Walk✔️, Woman at Point Zero✔️
Equatorial Guinea La Bastarda✔️
Eritrea The Conscript, The Other War
Eswatini A Beautiful Place to Die
Ethiopia Oromay, Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Gabon The Fury and Cries of Women
Gambia Reading the Ceiling
Ghana Anowa, Our Sister Killjoy✔️, His Only Wife✔️
Guinea The Radiance of the King
Guinea-Bissau The Ultimate Tragedy
Kenya A Grain of Wheat, Wizard of the Crow, Dust
Lesotho Chaka
Liberia And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation
Libya Gold Dust, The Slave Yards: A Novel
Madagascar Beyond the Rice Fields
Malawi The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Mali Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali✔️
Mauritania
Mauritius Eve out of Her Ruins
Morocco Year of the Elephant, This Blinding Absence of Light
Mozambique The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy
Namibia The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
Niger The Epic of Askia Mohammed
Nigeria Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga✔️, Death and the King's Horseman, Purple Hibiscus✔️, The Fishermen✔️, The Death of Vivek Oji✔️
Rwanda The Barefoot Woman✔️
São Tomé and Principe
Senegal God's Bits of Wood, So Long a Letter✔️
Seychelles
Sierra Leone A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Somalia Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth✔️
South Africa The Quiet Violence of Dreams, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood✔️
South Sudan They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
Sudan Season of Migration to the North✔️
Tanzania Paradise
Togo Descent into Night
Tunisia The Italian
Uganda Kintu
Western Sahara
Zambia The Old Drift
Zimbabwe The House of Hunger, Nervous Conditions
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Algeria Children of the New World, The Last Summer of Reason
Angola Transparent City
Benin [book:Snares Without E..."
Wow! Happy reading on this 55 country journey!
Oh! I hadn't seen all this before. Thanks for bringing my attention here, Anetq. I'm sure I'll get some reading ideas from this.Erin, personally I loved the Soyinka and Dangarembga, your planned reads for #2 and #8 :) Dangarembga's 3 books in that trilogy were written quite some years apart but I read them back to back, loved all three.
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Books mentioned in this topic
Transparent City (other topics)Children of the New World (other topics)
The Last Summer of Reason (other topics)
In the Company of Men (other topics)
The House of Hunger (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
D.O. Fagunwa (other topics)Diriye Osman (other topics)
Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun (other topics)
Tsitsi Dangarembga (other topics)
Wole Soyinka (other topics)
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1. A Short Story: Fairytales for Lost Children by Diriye Osman (Somalia)
2. By a Nigerian Author: Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
✔️3. From a recommendation list: Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga by D.O. Fagunwa (Nigeria)
4. From Eastern Africa: The Other War by Alemseged Tesfai (Eritrea)
✔️ 5. Free Choice: Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Mali)
6. Non-fiction: TBD
7. Poetry: Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire (Somalia) OR Sacrament of Bodies by Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun (Nigeria)
8. Female prize winner: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe) Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Africa (1989)
9. Not Written in English: The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout (Algeria) (French)