African Lit

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Where Tomorrow Leads (Hope of Sudan #2)
Where Tomorrow Leads (Hope of Sudan #2) 4.52 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 273,169 ratings
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country 3.92 avg rating — 78,544 ratings
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Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus 4.18 avg rating — 137,117 ratings
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Black Mamba Boy
Black Mamba Boy 3.74 avg rating — 2,310 ratings
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Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Beneath the Lion's Gaze 3.96 avg rating — 3,747 ratings
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Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating — 401,497 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness 3.43 avg rating — 545,740 ratings
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Ghana Must Go
Ghana Must Go 3.85 avg rating — 12,203 ratings
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Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18) 4.12 avg rating — 294,078 ratings
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The Fortunes of Wangrin
The Fortunes of Wangrin 4.01 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
Cutting for Stone 4.33 avg rating — 417,370 ratings
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A Varanda do Frangipani
A Varanda do Frangipani
by: Mia Couto
3.75 avg rating — 1,441 ratings
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Disgrace
Disgrace 3.86 avg rating — 114,206 ratings
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Nervous Conditions
Nervous Conditions 4.04 avg rating — 22,077 ratings
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Everything Good Will Come
Everything Good Will Come
by: Sefi Atta
3.88 avg rating — 2,097 ratings
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Who Fears Death
Who Fears Death 3.93 avg rating — 27,810 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom 4.36 avg rating — 92,322 ratings
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Binti (Binti, #1)
Binti (Binti, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 78,682 ratings
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Good Morning Comrades
Good Morning Comrades
by: Ondjaki
3.86 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 33,673 ratings
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The Spotted Sphinx
The Spotted Sphinx 4.35 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Down Second Avenue
Down Second Avenue 3.82 avg rating — 434 ratings
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A Walk in the Night and Other Stories
A Walk in the Night and Other Stories 3.65 avg rating — 457 ratings
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The Last King of Scotland
The Last King of Scotland 3.79 avg rating — 4,309 ratings
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The Power of One (The Power of One, #1)
The Power of One (The Power of One, #1) 4.36 avg rating — 93,090 ratings
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Our Sister Killjoy
Our Sister Killjoy 3.88 avg rating — 1,549 ratings
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Uhuru
Uhuru 4.04 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Aya: Life in Yop City (Aya #1-3)
Aya: Life in Yop City (Aya #1-3) 3.97 avg rating — 1,709 ratings
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The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa 3.47 avg rating — 2,195 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,090 ratings
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Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile
Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile 4.05 avg rating — 259 ratings
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The Last of the Sweet Bananas: New and Selected Poems
The Last of the Sweet Bananas: New and Selected Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Aké: The Years of Childhood
Aké: The Years of Childhood 3.86 avg rating — 1,977 ratings
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Foreign Gods, Inc.
Foreign Gods, Inc. 3.45 avg rating — 1,446 ratings
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So Long a Letter
So Long a Letter 3.99 avg rating — 11,638 ratings
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Radiance of Tomorrow
Radiance of Tomorrow 3.86 avg rating — 4,673 ratings
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The Conservationist
The Conservationist 3.31 avg rating — 3,269 ratings
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The Three (The Three, #1)
The Three (The Three, #1) 3.31 avg rating — 14,516 ratings
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We Need New Names
We Need New Names 3.75 avg rating — 23,067 ratings
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The Heart of Redness
The Heart of Redness
by: Zakes Mda
3.72 avg rating — 1,627 ratings
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I Do Not Come to You by Chance
I Do Not Come to You by Chance 3.94 avg rating — 3,701 ratings
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Patchwork
Patchwork 3.77 avg rating — 391 ratings
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The Attack
The Attack 3.86 avg rating — 13,039 ratings
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Under the Udala Trees
Under the Udala Trees 4.03 avg rating — 14,270 ratings
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Serengeti Shall Not Die
Serengeti Shall Not Die 4.31 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Dust
Dust 3.75 avg rating — 1,667 ratings
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South Africa's High Treason Club: The White Separatist Boeremag Conspirators on Trial
South Africa's High Treason Club: The White Separatist Boeremag Conspirators on Trial it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Thembe's Cloth
Thembe's Cloth 4.68 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Bridges of Constantine (Algeria Trilogy 1)
The Bridges of Constantine (Algeria Trilogy 1) 3.81 avg rating — 25,551 ratings
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Conflict of Lions
Conflict of Lions 4.05 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Biko
Biko 4.24 avg rating — 1,470 ratings
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The Joys of Motherhood
The Joys of Motherhood 4.21 avg rating — 8,107 ratings
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West with the Night
West with the Night 4.15 avg rating — 40,231 ratings
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Segu
Segu 4.10 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood 3.97 avg rating — 56,654 ratings
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The Rhino Crash
The Rhino Crash 4.19 avg rating — 153 ratings
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The Dark Child
The Dark Child 3.70 avg rating — 2,492 ratings
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Fiela se Kind
Fiela se Kind 4.06 avg rating — 3,023 ratings
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Secret Son
Secret Son 3.51 avg rating — 1,696 ratings
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The Screaming of the Innocent
The Screaming of the Innocent
by: Dow Unity
3.85 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali 3.65 avg rating — 2,711 ratings
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Unto Dust and Other Stories
Unto Dust and Other Stories 4.30 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Houseboy
Houseboy 3.73 avg rating — 2,316 ratings
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Two for the Lions (Marcus Didius Falco, #10)
Two for the Lions (Marcus Didius Falco, #10) 4.06 avg rating — 3,189 ratings
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Sweetness in the Belly
Sweetness in the Belly 3.91 avg rating — 9,459 ratings
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'Buckingham Palace', District Six
'Buckingham Palace', District Six 3.99 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Running the Rift
Running the Rift 3.97 avg rating — 7,192 ratings
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Johnny Mad Dog
Johnny Mad Dog 3.92 avg rating — 427 ratings
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The Young Black Stallion
The Young Black Stallion really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,179 ratings
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail 4.06 avg rating — 24,447 ratings
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Efuru
Efuru 3.94 avg rating — 1,105 ratings
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The Camel Bookmobile
The Camel Bookmobile 3.38 avg rating — 2,423 ratings
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The Smell of Apples
The Smell of Apples
by: Mark Behr
3.55 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
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Chai Tea Sunday
Chai Tea Sunday 3.70 avg rating — 986 ratings
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Verre cassé
Verre cassé 3.66 avg rating — 1,953 ratings
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The Black Stallion Returns (The Black Stallion, #2)
The Black Stallion Returns (The Black Stallion, #2) 4.19 avg rating — 15,376 ratings
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Changes: A Love Story
Changes: A Love Story 3.79 avg rating — 2,052 ratings
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A Guide to the Birds of East Africa (Mr Malik #1)
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa (Mr Malik #1) 3.81 avg rating — 4,151 ratings
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Unfeeling
Unfeeling 3.26 avg rating — 258 ratings
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The Witch Doctor's Wife (Belgian Congo Mystery #1)
The Witch Doctor's Wife (Belgian Congo Mystery #1) 3.56 avg rating — 1,513 ratings
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King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian
King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian 4.22 avg rating — 27,690 ratings
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Lyrics Alley
Lyrics Alley 3.79 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
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Jock of the Bushveld
Jock of the Bushveld 4.07 avg rating — 1,468 ratings
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Circling the Sun
Circling the Sun 3.94 avg rating — 81,017 ratings
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In the United States of Africa
In the United States of Africa 3.03 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Murder in the Place of Anubis (Lord Meren, #1)
Murder in the Place of Anubis (Lord Meren, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 1,338 ratings
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust 4.43 avg rating — 46,754 ratings
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The Mistress of Nothing
The Mistress of Nothing 3.61 avg rating — 4,201 ratings
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Nefertiti
Nefertiti 4.09 avg rating — 40,484 ratings
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The Yacoubian Building
The Yacoubian Building 3.71 avg rating — 22,608 ratings
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Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa 4.09 avg rating — 3,243 ratings
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The Baobabs of Tete and Other Stories
The Baobabs of Tete and Other Stories
by: Kari Dako
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3) 4.46 avg rating — 4,947 ratings
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A Long Walk to Water
A Long Walk to Water 4.25 avg rating — 99,547 ratings
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Master Harold...and the Boys
Master Harold...and the Boys 3.78 avg rating — 6,695 ratings
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The African Queen
The African Queen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,132 ratings
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Two Thousand Seasons
Two Thousand Seasons 4.43 avg rating — 381 ratings
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The Map of Love
The Map of Love 3.81 avg rating — 7,165 ratings
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The Serpentine Road (Col Vaughn de Vries #2)
The Serpentine Road (Col Vaughn de Vries #2) 4.07 avg rating — 219 ratings
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