For What Are Butterflies Without Their Wings
By: Troy Onyango
3.82
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Troy Onyango’s For What Are Butterflies Without Their Wings is a collection of 12 short stories tha…
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1. The Thing Around Your Neck
By: None
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Yo… read more
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2. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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- african literature
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
3. 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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- african literature
4. His Only Wife
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.” Afi Tekple is a young seamstres… read more
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5. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
By: Damilare Kuku
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity … read more
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- african literature
- short stories
6. A Broken People's Playlist
By: Chimeka Garricks
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully w… read more
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- african literature
- short stories
"They will ask me when I first knew I was in love with you. I will sign and say I don't know. It happened in fragments, piece by piece, separate moments over the years. Moments - that's how I remember…"-Chimeka Garricks, A Broken People's Playlist
7. The Havoc of Choice
By: Wanjiru Koinange
4.31
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
2007, Kenya Long held captive by her father’s shadow of corruption, Kavata has spent her life su… read more
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- kenya
- african literature
8. Blessings
By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more
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- african literature
9. Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
By: Huma Qureshi
3.89
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
A collection about mothers and daughters, children lost, unborn, grown up, grown apart, and the dis… read more
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- short stories
"Every day I looked up at the sky and I longed for the day that I might escape."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"I look back now and I want to shake myself. I want to say, do not think so long about what you cannot plan for. Do not take so long. Do it. Do it anyway."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"Our star-crossed moments may have lasted only milliseconds, but they filled the whole of my small schoolgirl world and kept it turning, like shafts of dust dancing gold in a splinter of sunlight."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"I accept time has passed and we have changed and there is an emptiness now in which we have nothing left to say because it has all been said already, because there are no words left between us any mo…"-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
10. The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing
By: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
3.98
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation starter like Three Women but centering the experiences of women of color: a melliflu… read more
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- african literature
- short stories
"I spent years avoiding sex with guys because I didn’t want anyone to gossip about me. I wish I had realized sooner that no matter what I did guys would claim to have fucked me every which way under t…"-Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing
11. A Girl Is a Body of Water
By: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
4.15
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted h… read more
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"Remember, be a good person, not a good girl. Good girls suffer a lot in this life."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
"Explore it, love it, find out what it is capable of before you hand it over to a man."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
"Stories are critical, Kirabo. The minute we fall silent, someone will fill the silence for us."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
"Children do absolutely nothing on their arrival that warrants presents every year. If anything, they should give presents to their mothers, who come close to death."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
12. We Were Girls Once
By: Aiwanose Odafen
3.82
Format: None pages, Audiobook
'We were three: complete, as we were meant to be…’ Ego, Zina and Eriife were always destined to … read more
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13. River Spirit
By: Leila Aboulela
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela… read more
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- african literature
"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"She was part of his youth and their love stretched from her village to his town. She must not feel lost or untethered. And there now was his son in her arms."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
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15. Confessions of Nairobi Women
By: Joan Thatiah
4.21
Format: 164 pages, Hardcover
There is a story of a woman who confesses to nursing thoughts of wanting to kill her husband, anoth… read more
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- kenya
- short stories
- african literature
16. Confessions of Nairobi Women Book Two
By: Joan Thatiah
4.11
Format: 156 pages, None
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17. Confessions of Nairobi Men
By: Joan Thatiah
4.34
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Confessions of Nairobi Men is a culmination of three years Joan Thatiah has spent listening to stor… read more
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18. Nairobi Noir
By: Peter Kimani
3.71
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o anchors this truly fascinating first East African installment in the Akashic Noir… read more
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19. For What Are Butterflies Without Their Wings
By: Troy Onyango
3.82
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Troy Onyango’s For What Are Butterflies Without Their Wings is a collection of 12 short stories tha… read more
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20. 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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21. Let Me Call You Back
By: Jackson Biko
4.47
Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition
Samora isn't unlike any man who suddenly finds himself in a pickle.A man with a young family. A man… read more
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