 | Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £3.00 Devestating, simple and stunning; Achebe's best work
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 | Heart of Darkness (Penguin Classics) by Joseph Conrad
Buy new: £1.47 / Used from: £1.44 Conrad's masterpiece shows the stark brutality of Africa.
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 | The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Buy new: £4.82 / Used from: £0.01 The great magical realist african novel, Okri is superbly lyrical in his prose
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 | The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born (African Writers Series) by Ayi Kwei Armah
Buy new: £3.34 / Used from: £3.37 Very good, a stunning evocation of Africa
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 | A Grain of Wheat (Penguin Modern Classics) by Wa Thiong'o Ngugi
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.37 The characters make this novel
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 | A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.28 Although not written by an African, this book holds a strong claim for the great Post Coloninal novel
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 | The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Buy new: £4.81 / Used from: £0.01 Very popular; and for once, the popularity is actually earnt
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 | No Longer at Ease (African Writers Series) by Chinua Achebe
Buy used from: £3.29 Another stupendous work from Chinua Achebe
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 | Season of Migration to the North (Penguin Modern Classics) by Tayeb Salih
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.37 A great work from a great and under subscribed author
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 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £2.87 / Used from: £2.95 J M Coetzee's booker winning novel lays South Africa bare
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