 | Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy used from: £2.39 Shortlisted for the Orange Prize. A young girl growing up in a violent Nigerian household.
|
 | The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 This won a big prize,though I'm afraid I can't remember which... well, nevemind - it was well deserved, anyway! African magic realism.
|
 | The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) by Naguib Mahfouz
Buy new: £16.16 / Used from: £18.20 This time it's the Nobel Prize! Whoa! Egyptian streetlife brought to spicey life.
|
 | Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Another Nobel Prize... compassionate story-telling from South Africa.
|
 | The Madonna of Excelsior by Zakes Mda
Buy used from: £6.17 The story of a South-African township told through the life of one woman.
|
 | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Autobiography of a white childhood in Zimbabwe.
|
 | Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Buy used from: £2.86 Zimbabwe in the 60's and 70's
|
 | West with the Night (Virago Travellers) by Beryl Markham
Buy new: £6.57 / Used from: £0.86 An autobiography by pilot Markham, depicting life in colonial Kenya
|
 | A Dry White Season by Andre Brink
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.00 Another prolific South African, writing about ordinary people under apartheid.
|
 | Petals of Blood (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £5.99 Murder mystery/political satire - an unexpected but successful combo!
|
 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Sexual harrassment, poetry, the loss of racial privilege... it's all here. Oh, and guess what? It won the Booker. Coetzee is also a Nobel Prize laureate.
|
 | Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation by Alan Paton
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.52 A classic novel about apartheid
|
 | The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 A novel set in Belgian Congo in 1959, written by an American author, The Poisonwood Bible tells the story of a despotic missionary and his daughters.
|
 | Exterminate All the Brutes by Sven Lindqvist
Buy used from: £29.98 Another book that isn't strictly African, as it is written by a Swede. A very interesting but also very disturbing account of colonial crimes against humanity.
|
 | Ways of Dying (Southern African Writing) by Zakes Mda
Buy used from: £8.77 It's Mda again... a professional mourners journey from village to city is heartbreaking and tender.
|
Listmania!
