 | Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Buy used from: £3.00 A classic novel of a young girl's growth and development from Zimbabwe. One of the best novels from the continent
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 | Fiela's Child by Dalene Matthee
Buy used from: £1.09 Originally written in Afrikaans, this South African novel is a moving tale about parental love - and its opposite.
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 | The Slave Girl by Buchi Emecheta
Buy used from: £4.58 Nigerian Buchi Emecheta is the 'Grand Old Lady' of African fiction
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 | So Long a Letter (African Writers Series) by Mariama Ba
Buy used from: £2.94 This is the story of a poligamous marriage, in Senegal, seen from the first wife's point of view.
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 | Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales (African Writers Series) by Bessie Head
Buy new: £6.65 / Used from: £2.00 Poignant short stories by a master story teller from Botswana
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 | Our Sister Kill Joy by Ama Ata Aidoo
Buy used from: £105.95 An early work by the well-known Ghanese writer. Also published by Longmans
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 | Neighbours: The Story of a Murder (African Writers Series) by Lilia Momple
Buy new: £8.00 / Used from: £2.30 Mozambican Momple tells about the horrors of foreign attacks as felt by the civilians living in the capital during the 'civil' war.
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 | The Story of an African Farm (Oxford World's Classics) by Olive Schreiner
Buy used from: £2.83 Not an easy read by any means, but with the unmistakable flavour of a Victorian classic
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 | Memoirs from the Women's Prison (Literature of the Middle East) by NE Saadawi
Buy used from: £4.17 This is the powerful account of the months leading Egyptian feminist Nawal el Sa'adawi spent in prison
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| Collected African Stories: This Was the Old Chief's Country v. 1 by Doris May Lessing
Buy used from: £0.11 Whether Lessing really is 'African' or not, is rather irrelevant I think. These are amongst the finest short stories I have ever read.
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 | The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 An unusual blend of Nigerian and English views of 'normality'
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 | My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.00 Her best novel to date, in my view
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 | Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy used from: £9.47 Adichie's second novel, set during the civil war in Biafra, is even more interesting than her best selling first novel
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