Unbury Our Dead With Song
By: Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
3.75
Format: None pages, None
A love letter to music, beauty, and imagination. In the seedy ABC boxing club in Nairobi, four musi…
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1. Desertion
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.90
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
In 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal … read more
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- africa
- fiction
- african literature
"There is, as you can see, an I in this story, but it is not a story about me. It is one about all of us, about Farida and Amin and our parents, and about Jamila. It is about how one story contains ma…"-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Desertion
2. Paradise
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of… read more
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3. Dust
By: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From a breathtaking new voice, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya--a story of power and dec… read more
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4. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
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- africa
- fiction
- african literature
"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
5. Our Lady of the Nile
By: Scholastique Mukasonga , None
3.71
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
For her most recent work and first novel - Notre-Dame du Nil, originally published in March 2012 wi… read more
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6. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
By: Cherie Jones
3.69
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel in the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, from a brilliant Caribbean writer, … read more
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- fiction
7. Afterlives
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. A… read more
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- africa
- fiction
"... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"He suffered his small share of the unavoidable indignities of childhood."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"I have nothing,’ he said. ‘Nor do I,’ she said. ‘We’ll have nothing together."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
8. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- fiction
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
9. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
By: Noor Naga
3.92
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more
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- africa
- fiction
10. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola … read more
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- fiction
"if it's real, the distance won't change it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"Get into the rooms you need to be in so your work can do what it needs to do."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"That she had braids like gold, glittering under the sun. The kind of deep, black skin that always looks perfect, like a goddess"-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"She wanted to take a picture of it but she already knew half the beauty would die inside a camera lens and she'd never quite catch the edges of it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
11. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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- africa
12. When We Were Birds
By: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
3.79
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
A mythic love story set in Trinidad and Tobago, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut introduces two u… read more
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- fiction
"You feeling the thing that in my mother, and her mother and hers, calling to the thing that is you, and in your daughter (...), and in her daughter and hers."-Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds
"When the last feather has gone, and your woman body has grown full, remember that you remain a bird inside. You have not forgotten how to fly. For what is more woman than holding death and life, sky …"-Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds
13. 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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- africa
- fiction
- african literature
"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
14. Cantoras
By: Carolina De Robertis
4.38
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel abo… read more
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- fiction
"Safe is never given. Safe is what you make with your own hands."-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras
"Maybe everyone bore the wounds, no matter what had or hadn't happened to them; maybe they were all part of the same vast, bruised body in the shape of a nation. A body groping for the slightest illus…"-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras
"Only later, as their bodies merged, would she feel Malena's own hunger under the surface, waiting, quiet, like a creature unsuited to the hunt. It was enough and a relief to Romina. It seemed, at tim…"-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras
15. Memory of Departure
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.70
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
[Memory of Departure, 1987-8, GURNAH] This haunting coming-of-age novel evokes in spare but vivid p… read more
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- africa
- fiction
"girls sitting together and apart from us, reared into self-conscious anxiety in the presence of men"-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Memory of Departure
16. La bastarda
By: Trifonia Melibea Obono
3.55
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
La protagonista, Okomo, una adolescente de etnia fang, atrapada en un sistema de valores que no le … read more
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- africa
- fiction
17. 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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- africa
- fiction
- african literature
18. Scorpionfish
By: Natalie Bakopoulos
3.72
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
After the unexpected deaths of her parents, young academic Mira returns to her childhood home in At… read more
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- fiction
19. The Map of Salt and Stars
By: Zeyn Joukhadar
3.92
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Nour es una niña de once años cuyo padre acaba de morir. Su madre, cartógrafa que dibuja los mapas … read more
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- fiction
"Stories are powerful,"-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
"I don’t understand why we were shelled."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
"The sea has a way of showing us ourselves,"-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
"The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet"-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
20. Things They Lost
By: Okwiri Oduor
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vogue and Vulture “Alternately whimsical, sweet, and dark,” this … read more
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- kenya
- africa
- fiction
- african literature
"She said that true love was just like this - sweet in some parts, sour in others. She said that deep love was vast and pure, but that it also got hateful in some of its corners where the sunlight did…"-Okwiri Oduor, Things They Lost
21. Unbury Our Dead With Song
By: Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
3.75
Format: None pages, None
A love letter to music, beauty, and imagination. In the seedy ABC boxing club in Nairobi, four musi… read more
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- music
- africa
- african literature
- fiction
- kenya
