Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Format: Hardback Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Published: May 2nd, 2019 Genre: Fusion Fiction...

Let's Tell This Story Properly by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Also published as Manchester Happened by One World Publications, UK )...

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates Format: Hardback Publisher: Penguin Random House / One World Published: 24th September 2019 Genre:...

A Review of Sula by Toni Morrison Format: Paperback Publisher: Plume Books Published: 1973 Genre: Literary Fiction Setting: USA Rating: 4...

Contrasting Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s ‘In Dependence’ and Mariama Ba’s ‘Scarlet Song’ I read these books at around the same time and though...

Eurocentrism and the Eurocentric Ways in Which Africa is Expected to Remember History I am re-reading Born a Crime by Trevor Noah as part...

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Format: Paperback Publisher: Doubleday Published: July 2019 Genre: Historical Fiction Setting:...

Mema by Daniel M. Mengara #Gabon Format: Paperback Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books (African Writers Series) Published: 2003 Genre:...

The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christine Lefteri Format: Audiobook Publisher: Ballantine Books Published: 27th August 2019 Genre: Literary...

The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso Format: Paperback Publisher: Vintage Published: Feb 2017 (First ed May 2016) Genre: Literary...

A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa #Angola Format: Paperback Publisher: Harvill Secker Published: 2012 Translation:...

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell #Zambia Format: Paperback Publisher: Hogarth Published: March 2019 Genre: Genre What? Genre who?...

Viscerally moving from past to present and back, and narrated using flashbacks, Beloved follows the life of Sethe, who much like Garner, is

The Other Americans - Laila Lalami Format: Hardback Publisher: Pantheon Published: March 2019 Genre: Fiction Setting: California, US...

Growing up in middle-class Lagos, Nigeria during the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ihechi forms a band of close friends in his neighborhood.

A couple of things happen when you wait 10+ years to read a book after its release; i) You somehow already know the entire plot because it..

The Book of Night Women - Marlon James Format: Paperback Publisher: Riverhead Books, NY Published: 2009 Genre: Historical fiction...

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Format: Hard Back Publisher: Doubleday, New York Release Date: Sept 2018 Genre: Crime...

The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany Format: Paperback Publisher: Fourth Estate (an Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers) Release...

My African Reading List I’ve always prided myself in being African Literature savvy but that delusion was swiftly set straight when I...