A Man of the People
By: Chinua Achebe
3.82
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart," this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 an…
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1. The River Between
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
3.79
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The River Between explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white… read more
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2. Maru
By: Bessie Head
3.79
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Margaret Cadmore, an orphaned Masarwa girl, comes to Dilepe to teach, only to discover that in this… read more
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"At such times he would think, 'What will I do if she does not love me as much as I love her?' A terrible reply came from his heart, 'Kill her."-Bessie Head, Maru
"There was something Dikeledi called sham. It made people believe they were more important than the normal image of humankind. She had grown up surrounded by sham."-Bessie Head, Maru
"The man who slowly walked away from them was a king in their society. A day had come when he had decided that he did not need any kingship other than the kind of wife everybody would loathe from the …"-Bessie Head, Maru
"Before the white man became universally disliked for his mental outlook, it was there. The white man found only too many people who looked different. That was all that outraged the receivers of his d…"-Bessie Head, Maru
3. Everything Good Will Come
By: Sefi Atta
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. It is 1971, a … read more
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4. A Man of the People
By: Chinua Achebe
3.82
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart," this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 an… read more
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5. The Joys of Motherhood
By: Buchi Emecheta
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Nnu Ego is a woman who gives all her energy, money and everything she has to raising her children -… read more
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6. Siku Njema
By: Ken Walibora
4.08
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
A novel. read more
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7. The River and the Source
By: Margaret A. Ogola
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 1995, this novel won both the Jomo Kenyatta Literature Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize… read more
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8. A Grain of Wheat
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Gr… read more
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9. So Long a Letter
By: Mariama Bâ , Modupé Bodé-Thomas
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her strugg… read more
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10. Born on a Tuesday
By: Elnathan John
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From two-time Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John, a dynamic young voice from Nigeria, Born on a Tue… read more
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11. Death and the King's Horseman: A Play
By: Wole Soyinka
3.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's … read more
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12. In a Free State
By: V.S. Naipaul
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. … read more
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13. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
By: Sherry B. Ortner , Geoff Eley , Mahmood Mamdani , Nicholas B. Dirks
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this provocative analysis of the obstacles to democratization in post-independence Africa, Mahmo… read more
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15. The Farming of Bones
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Farming of Bonesbegins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates t… read more
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16. The Fishermen
By: Chigozie Obioma
3.78
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
In a Nigerian town in the mid 1990's, four brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of vio… read more
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17. Devil on the Cross
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
This remarkable and symbolic novel centers on Wariinga's tragedy and uses it to tell a story of con… read more
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18. Weep Not, Child
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tells the moving story about the effects of the Mau Mau war on the lives of ordinary men and women … read more
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19. The House of Hunger
By: Dambudzo Marechera
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Guardian fiction prize, this novella and nine short stories describe life in a Zimbab… read more
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20. Half of a Yellow Sun
By: None
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence o… read more
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21. 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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"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
