"Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world." – Jeanette Winterson
Out of Africa
Peter Abrahams (South Africa): Mine Boy, This Island Now, A Wreath for Udom
Chinua Achebe (Nigeria): Arrow of God, No Longer At Ease, Things Fall Apart
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria): Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun
Mohammed Naseehu Ali (Ghana): The Prophet of Zongo Street
Elechi Amadi (Nigeria): The Concubine, The Great Ponds, Sunset in Biafra
Ayi Kwei Armah (Ghana): The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Sefi Atta (Nigeria): Everything Good Will Come
Ayesha Harruna Attah (Ghana): Harmattan Rain
Mariama Bâ (Senegal): Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter)
Mongo Beti (Cameroon): The Poor Christ of Bomba
J.M. Coetzee (South Africa): Disgrace, Life & Times of Michael K
Mia Couto (Mozambique): Terra Sonâmbula (A Sleepwalking Land)
Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe): Nervous Conditions
Mohammed Dib (Algeria): "La grande maison"
Assia Djebar (Algeria): Les Enfants du Nouveau Monde
Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria): The Bride Price, The Joys of Motherhood
Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa (Nigeria): Ogboju odẹ ninu igbo irunmalẹ (The Forest of a Thousand Demons)
Nuruddin Farah (Somalia): From a Crooked Rib, Maps, Sweet and Sour Milk
Nadine Gordimer (Nobel Prize in literature 1991 - South Africa): Burger's People, The Conservationist, July's People
Alex La Guma (South Africa): In the Fog of the Seasons' End, The Stone Country, Time of the Butcherbird.
Bessie Head (Botswana): When Rain Clouds Gather
Moses Isegawa (Uganda) Abyssinian Chronicles
Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco): The Sacred Night, The Sand Child, This Blinding Absence of Light
Cheikh Hamidou Kane (Senegal): L'Aventure Ambiguë
Yasmina Khadra (Algeria): The Swallows of Kabul
Camara Laye (Guinea): The Radiance of the King
Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 - Egypt): The Beginning and the End, Cairo Trilogy, Children of Gebelawi, Midaq Alley
Charles Mangua (Kenya): A Tail in the Mouth
Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Nigeria): In Dependence
Dambudzo Marechera (Zimbabwe): The House of Hunger
Dalene Matthee (South Africa): Kringe in 'n bos (Circles in a Forest)
Thomas Mofolo (South Africa/Lesotho): Chaka
Meja Mwangi (Kenya): Carcase for Hounds, Going Down River Road, Kill Me Quick
Lewis Nkosi (South Africa): Mandela's Ego, Mating Birds, Underground People
Nnedi Okorafor (Nigeria): Zahrah the Windseeker
Ben Okri (Nigeria): The Famished Road
Yambo Ouologuem (Mali): Le Devoir de Violence
Alan Paton (South Africa): Cry, The Beloved Country
Tayeb Salih (Sudan): "Season of Migration to the North"
Benjamin Sehene (Rwanda): Le Feu sous la Soutane (Fire under the Cassock)
Ousmane Sembène (Senegal): Xala, The Black Docker (Le Docker Noir), God's Bits of Wood (Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu), The Last of the Empire (Le dernier de l'Empire), Tribal Scars (Voltaïque)
Alexander McCall Smith (Zimbabwe) Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency, The Isabel Dalhousie Novels, 44 Scotland Street Series, and Porteguese Irregular verb series.
Wole Soyinka (Nobel Prize in Literature 1986 - Nigeria): The Intepreters, Seasons of Anomy, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Kenya): A Grain of Wheat, Matigari, Petals of Blood, Weep Not, Child, Wizard of the Crow
Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe): Butterfly Burning
Birhanu Zerihun (Ethiopia): Ye'imba debdabbéwoch "Yearful Letters"
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