 | Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £1.96 This is a social document, recounting the impact of colonialism and Christianity on the life of the Ibo tribe in turn-of-the-century Nigeria.
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 | So Long a Letter (African Writers Series) by Mariama Ba
Buy used from: £12.95 This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her struggle for survival. It is the winner of the Noma Award.
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 | African Short Stories (African Writers Series)
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £3.79 A superb collection of twenty short stories from all over the continent. Edited by Chinua Achebe.
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 | A Grain of Wheat (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £4.19 A Grain of Wheat portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya.
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 | Sosu's Call by Meshack Asare
Buy new: £4.95 Meshack Asare's best work.
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 | A Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
Buy new: £8.73 / Used from: £0.01 The most famous autobiography to emerge from Africa.
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 | The Sacred Night by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Buy new: £12.15 / Used from: £8.23 A fascinating continuation of the story following on from The Sand Child.
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 | Arrow of God (African Writers Series) by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: £6.93 / Used from: £4.24 A chief priest surrounded by rivals and troubles looks for solutions in the cosmos.
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 | Chaka the Zulu (African Writers Series) by Thomas Mofolo
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.12 This is an account of the eponymous Zulu hero.
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