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by Shobha Rao
Published Mar 2017
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by E.C. Osondu
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsA vivid, fully imagined portrait of an extraordinary African family and the house that holds them together.
by NoViolet Bulawayo
Published May 2014
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by Nick Lake
Published Jan 2014
Read ReviewsRaw, harrowing, and peopled with vibrant characters, In Darkness is an extraordinary book about the cruelties of man and nature, and the valiant, ongoing struggle for a country's very survival.
by John Mahama
Published May 2013
Read ReviewsMy First Coup d'Etat chronicles the coming-of-age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence "lost decades" of Africa.
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by A. Igoni Barrett
Published May 2013
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by Sefi Atta
Published Dec 2012
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Published Oct 2012
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by Jason Wallace
Published Dec 2011
Read ReviewsA compelling, thought-provoking novel about race, bullying and the need to belong, set in Africa.
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsSearing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Your Neck map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.
by Tracy Kidder
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsStrength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one mans remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
by Ishmael Beah
Published Aug 2008
Read ReviewsThe devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, hed been picked up by the government army, and became a soldier.
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafras impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed.
by Don Cheadle, John Prendergast
Published May 2007
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by Wole Soyinka
Published Mar 2007
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by Paul Rusesabagina
Published Mar 2007
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We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
by Philip Gourevitch
Published Mar 2000
Read ReviewsIn 1994 the Rwandan government implemented a policy that called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority: 800,000 people were massacred. Read their story.
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