Co-wives, Co-widows
By: Adrienne Yabouza
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Bangui, Central African Republic. This is the story of Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou, the two widows …
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1. My Urohs
By: Emelihter Kihleng
3.81
Format: 61 pages, Paperback
The first collection of poetry by a Pohnpeian poet, Emelihter Kihleng's My Urohs is described by di… read more
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2. Told by Starlight in Chad
By: Joseph Brahim Seid , Translated by Karen Haire Hoenig
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
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3. Aya (Aya #1)
By: Clément Oubrerie , Helge Dascher , Marguerite Abouet , Tom Devlin , None
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
"That's what I wanted to show in Aya: an Africa without the ... war and famine, an Africa that endu… read more
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4. Houseboy
By: Ferdinand Oyono , John Reed
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Toundi Ondoua, the rural African protagonist of Houseboy, encounters a world of prisms that cast be… read more
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5. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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6. Broken Glass
By: Alain Mabanckou , Helen Stevenson
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Alain Mabanckou's riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a cou… read more
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7. Tomorrow I Become a Woman
By: Aiwanose Odafen
4.24
Format: None pages, Audiobook
What can I do?’ she asked. You can fight, I thought, you can fight for your daughters. But then aga… read more
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8. A Girl Called Eel
By: Ali Zamir
3.38
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Anguille is a 17-year-old girl who leaves her rock on the archipelago of Comoros to lose herself at… read more
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9. Nightbloom
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel abou… read more
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10. Saint Sebastian's Abyss
By: Mark Haber
3.71
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
“What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at th… read more
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"...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place pr…"-Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss
11. Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks)
By: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
4.50
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean’s Marshall Islands from being dev… read more
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12. Call and Response
By: Gothataone Moeng
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate… read more
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13. She Would Be King
By: Wayétu Moore
4.00
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history—a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s forma… read more
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"Loneliness while in the presence of others is a most cruel kind"-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
"This was his mother. This was his poetic lo e, whose fallen shadow broke his spirit as he sprinted with the wind. She was gone."-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
"How can you leave me?' Maisy had said one night. 'You are my sister now. My flesh. Flesh cannot leave you.' At which Gbessa almost lost her breath. The kindness, the newness, stunned her."-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
"We did not have books on Emerson. That place where we lost our language, lost ourselves. They told us we had no history but darkness, so they kept the books away for fear we might understand the trut…"-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
14. In the Company of Men
By: Véronique Tadjo
3.84
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, this poignant, timely f… read more
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15. When the Ground Is Hard
By: Malla Nunn
4.15
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning and heartrending tale set in a Swaziland boarding school, two girls of different c… read more
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"Jane is stuck in the space between things."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"Books are better than gossip, though Delia doesn't think so."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"A dark wind lifts dirt into the air. The land absorbs the sobs of the women and the flinty silence of the gravediggers. The long fields and tall hills swallow us all."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"Where would Jane be without that inheritance from her long-lost uncle? If she was in Swaziland, I'll tell you where she'd be: living in a grass hut with nothing to eat but porridge. A blind and cripp…"-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
16. Co-wives, Co-widows
By: Adrienne Yabouza
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Bangui, Central African Republic. This is the story of Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou, the two widows … read more
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- contemporary
- 21st century
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- african literature
- adult
17. The Fisherman King
By: Kathrina Mohd Daud
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Eight years ago, Lisan the fisherman, who has … read more
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18. The Madwoman of Serrano
By: Dina Salústio
3.40
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Serrano is an isolated village where a madwoman roams. But is she really mad or is she marginalized… read more
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19. These Letters End in Tears
By: Musih Tedji Xaviere
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in a country where being gay is punishable by law, These Letters End in Tears is the heart-wren… read more
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20. Riambel
By: Priya Hein
3.97
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Riambel, île Maurice. Derrière les plages de sable fin, c’est dans le bidonville qu’on appelle Afri… read more
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21. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow
By: Damilare Kuku
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more
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