[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. -
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.wrote last edited by [email protected]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.wrote last edited by [email protected]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.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
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.I love a picture book she wrote, called Brave Bora.
(CC childrens book about the nervousness of getting an injection at the doctors)
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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.Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Binti series by Nnedi Okorafor
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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.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!
