Africa and the Diaspora

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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,133 ratings
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,493 ratings
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Facing the Son
Facing the Son 3.79 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
Buck: A Memoir 4.05 avg rating — 3,060 ratings
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Nightmare Along the River Nile: A Story of Twentieth Century Slavery
Nightmare Along the River Nile: A Story of Twentieth Century Slavery 4.04 avg rating — 228 ratings
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The Helpers: An international tale of Espionage and Corruption
The Helpers: An international tale of Espionage and Corruption 3.97 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D.
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. 4.46 avg rating — 2,108 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
Cutting for Stone 4.33 avg rating — 417,444 ratings
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The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born 3.87 avg rating — 3,381 ratings
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On Trial for My Country
On Trial for My Country 3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,288 ratings
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Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North 3.72 avg rating — 32,268 ratings
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears 3.71 avg rating — 8,733 ratings
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Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,415 ratings
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They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America 4.47 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
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Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain 4.39 avg rating — 210 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 4.19 avg rating — 66,227 ratings
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War Child: A Child Soldier's Story
War Child: A Child Soldier's Story 4.09 avg rating — 2,148 ratings
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UniverSoul Reflections
UniverSoul Reflections 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities
Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Immersed in West Africa: My Solo Journey Across Senegal, Mauritania, The Gambia, Guinea and Guinea Bissau (Travels With Terry Book 1)
Immersed in West Africa: My Solo Journey Across Senegal, Mauritania, The Gambia, Guinea and Guinea Bissau (Travels With Terry Book 1) 4.29 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Out of Africa
Out of Africa 3.91 avg rating — 46,910 ratings
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A New Day Dawns (Travels With Terry, #2)
A New Day Dawns (Travels With Terry, #2) 4.66 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Nothing Comes Close
Nothing Comes Close 3.75 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Love in Paradise
Love in Paradise 3.52 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Sweetness in the Belly
Sweetness in the Belly 3.91 avg rating — 9,461 ratings
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MALAIKA
MALAIKA 4.08 avg rating — 1,145 ratings
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Equiano's Travels (African Writers Series)
Equiano's Travels (African Writers Series) 3.74 avg rating — 14,420 ratings
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Silent Voice
Silent Voice it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Verses For The Next Generation
Verses For The Next Generation it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela 4.27 avg rating — 3,615 ratings
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African Presence Early Eur(ser7#2)
African Presence Early Eur(ser7#2) 4.41 avg rating — 58 ratings
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African Presence in Early Asia
African Presence in Early Asia 4.54 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Missives From Within
Missives From Within it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Rabbit and Elephant's Tug Of War (African Folktales for Children, #1)
Rabbit and Elephant's Tug Of War (African Folktales for Children, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Germany's Black Holocaust: 1890-1945: The Untold Truth!
Germany's Black Holocaust: 1890-1945: The Untold Truth! 4.02 avg rating — 89 ratings
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A Nonentity With Identity
A Nonentity With Identity really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Epistles of Poetic Purity
Epistles of Poetic Purity it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 132,009 ratings
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Weep Not, Child
Weep Not, Child 3.90 avg rating — 4,100 ratings
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Africa Has a Future
Africa Has a Future 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The River Between
The River Between 3.79 avg rating — 5,151 ratings
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad 4.06 avg rating — 433,415 ratings
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The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography 3.76 avg rating — 13,370 ratings
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children 4.26 avg rating — 3,402 ratings
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A History of Ethiopia
A History of Ethiopia 3.54 avg rating — 226 ratings
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The Old Man and the Medal
The Old Man and the Medal 3.62 avg rating — 458 ratings
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa 4.18 avg rating — 5,458 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 477,046 ratings
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing 4.49 avg rating — 2,243 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating — 192,431 ratings
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families 4.22 avg rating — 35,959 ratings
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Say You're One of Them
Say You're One of Them 3.55 avg rating — 16,254 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,176 ratings
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African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors
African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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My Dear Liberia
My Dear Liberia it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Girl From Zanzibar
A Girl From Zanzibar 3.46 avg rating — 145 ratings
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The Pull Of Freedom
The Pull Of Freedom 4.37 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Lessons in Love
Lessons in Love 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Blood of Titans
The Blood of Titans 4.04 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor and Other Stories (African Writers Series)
The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor and Other Stories (African Writers Series)
by: Hama Tuma
4.31 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Dear Junia
Dear Junia 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa 3.88 avg rating — 522 ratings
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Kings of the Jungle
Kings of the Jungle 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Love's Affliction
Love's Affliction 4.05 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Granta Book of the African Short Story
The Granta Book of the African Short Story 3.87 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,399 ratings
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Aliou: A Novel of the Backway
Aliou: A Novel of the Backway 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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All the Birds Were Invited to a Feast in the Sky
All the Birds Were Invited to a Feast in the Sky it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Meerkats Come to Dinner
The Meerkats Come to Dinner 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid 4.15 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
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The Hairdresser of Harare
The Hairdresser of Harare 3.62 avg rating — 2,943 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 4.17 avg rating — 118,963 ratings
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Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America 4.11 avg rating — 691 ratings
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Best African American Fiction: 2009
Best African American Fiction: 2009 3.83 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Black Mamba Boy
Black Mamba Boy 3.74 avg rating — 2,311 ratings
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The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician
The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician 3.49 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,542 ratings
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The Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance
The Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance 3.79 avg rating — 111 ratings
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The Second Coming of Dambudzo Marechera
The Second Coming of Dambudzo Marechera 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks 4.14 avg rating — 418 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
The Hospital by the River 4.10 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
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Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia
Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia 3.57 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Black Women in Antiquity
Black Women in Antiquity 4.47 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Frontline Diplomacy: Humanitarian Aid and Conflict in Africa
Frontline Diplomacy: Humanitarian Aid and Conflict in Africa 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Lyrics Alley
Lyrics Alley 3.79 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
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This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare 4.04 avg rating — 8,064 ratings
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A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991
A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991 3.93 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) 4.46 avg rating — 986,518 ratings
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,729 ratings
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Egypt: Child of Africa
Egypt: Child of Africa 4.49 avg rating — 35 ratings
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I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
I Write What I Like: Selected Writings 4.37 avg rating — 2,701 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,141 ratings
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The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke
The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke 3.75 avg rating — 1,555 ratings
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Black Lions: The Creative Lives of Modern Ethiopia's Literary Giants and Pioneers
Black Lions: The Creative Lives of Modern Ethiopia's Literary Giants and Pioneers 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,447 ratings
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The God Who Begat a Jackal: A Novel
The God Who Begat a Jackal: A Novel 3.46 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny
Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny 4.30 avg rating — 1,018 ratings
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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany 4.31 avg rating — 1,765 ratings
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The Emperor: Downfall of An Autocrat
The Emperor: Downfall of An Autocrat 4.08 avg rating — 8,972 ratings
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