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[AFRICA] Who is your favourite African author?

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    Let’s give some love to authors from Africa!
    Share your favourite African author and mention at least one book from them you’d recommend.

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      Let’s give some love to authors from Africa!
      Share your favourite African author and mention at least one book from them you’d recommend.

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      Bryce Courtenay - The Power of One was my favourite.

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        Let’s give some love to authors from Africa!
        Share your favourite African author and mention at least one book from them you’d recommend.

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        If I can share a few books I've really enjoyed:

        So Long a Letter (1979) - Mariama Ba

        The Old Drift (2019) - Namwali Serpell

        Tekusat (ትኩሳት) (1997) - Sebhat Gebre-Egzhiaber

        Things Fall Apart (1958) - Chinua Achebe

        Patchwork (2011) - Ellen Banda-Aaku

        The Wedding of Zein (1966) - Tayeb Salih

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          Let’s give some love to authors from Africa!
          Share your favourite African author and mention at least one book from them you’d recommend.

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          I recently read The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz and it was excellent.

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            If I can share a few books I've really enjoyed:

            So Long a Letter (1979) - Mariama Ba

            The Old Drift (2019) - Namwali Serpell

            Tekusat (ትኩሳት) (1997) - Sebhat Gebre-Egzhiaber

            Things Fall Apart (1958) - Chinua Achebe

            Patchwork (2011) - Ellen Banda-Aaku

            The Wedding of Zein (1966) - Tayeb Salih

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            No worries, it is time for people to see that authors are everywhere on the planet, not just in one corner 😀 If you have more. Do not hesitate 😁

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              Let’s give some love to authors from Africa!
              Share your favourite African author and mention at least one book from them you’d recommend.

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              Edna Gicovi

              I love a picture book she wrote, called Brave Bora.

              (CC childrens book about the nervousness of getting an injection at the doctors)

              PDF download in English

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                Share your favourite African author and mention at least one book from them you’d recommend.

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                Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

                Binti series by Nnedi Okorafor

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                  Share your favourite African author and mention at least one book from them you’d recommend.

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                  I love Mia Couto books, he really can mesh the fantastic and the real very well. Give a read in Sleepwalking Land whenever you can!

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