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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 162 times as africa)
avg rating 3.97 — 123,223 ratings — published 1998
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Things Fall Apart (Paperback)
by Chinua Achebe (shelved 157 times as africa)
avg rating 3.60 — 27,658 ratings — published 1958
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What Is the What (Hardcover)
by Dave Eggers (shelved 109 times as africa)
avg rating 4.21 — 24,272 ratings — published 2006
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by Ishmael Beah (shelved 107 times as africa)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,234 ratings — published 2007
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by Alexander McCall Smith (shelved 106 times as africa)
avg rating 3.64 — 22,946 ratings — published 1998
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Paperback)
by Alexandra Fuller (shelved 98 times as africa)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,071 ratings — published 2002
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Paperback)
by Adam Hochschild (shelved 79 times as africa)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,292 ratings — published 1998
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Paperback)
by Philip Gourevitch (shelved 75 times as africa)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,511 ratings — published 1999
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Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by Alan Paton (shelved 68 times as africa)
avg rating 3.86 — 9,847 ratings — published 1948
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Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
by Joseph Conrad (shelved 67 times as africa)
avg rating 3.41 — 23,999 ratings — published 1902
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Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (shelved 64 times as africa)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,599 ratings — published 2006
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Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
by Alexander McCall Smith (shelved 57 times as africa)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,019 ratings — published 2002
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Out of Africa (Modern Library)
by Isak Dinesen (shelved 57 times as africa)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,454 ratings — published 1937
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Disgrace (Penguin Essential Edition)
by J.M. Coetzee (shelved 53 times as africa)
avg rating 3.83 — 9,421 ratings — published 1999
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Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (shelved 50 times as africa)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,056 ratings — published 2003
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The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)
by Alexander McCall Smith (shelved 49 times as africa)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,443 ratings — published 2003
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Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #3)
by Alexander McCall Smith (shelved 48 times as africa)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,597 ratings — published 1998
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The Power of One (Paperback)
by Bryce Courtenay (shelved 41 times as africa)
avg rating 4.37 — 10,188 ratings — published 1989
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa (Hardcover)
by Peter Godwin (shelved 41 times as africa)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,357 ratings — published 2005
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The Full Cupboard of Life (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #5)
by Alexander McCall Smith (shelved 39 times as africa)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,598 ratings — published 1998
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Blue Shoes and Happiness (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #7)
by Alexander McCall Smith (shelved 38 times as africa)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,262 ratings — published 2006
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In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #6)
by Alexander McCall Smith (shelved 36 times as africa)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,394 ratings — published 2005
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Infidel (Hardcover)
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (shelved 36 times as africa)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,060 ratings — published 2006
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Scribbling the Cat (Paperback)
by Alexandra Fuller (shelved 35 times as africa)
avg rating 3.67 — 714 ratings — published 2004
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The Miracle at Speedy Motors (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #9)
by Alexander McCall Smith (shelved 35 times as africa)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,028 ratings — published 2008
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown (Paperback)
by Paul Theroux (shelved 33 times as africa)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,602 ratings — published 2002
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The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #8)
by Alexander McCall Smith (shelved 31 times as africa)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,477 ratings — published 2006
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Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (Paperback)
by Mark Mathabane (shelved 31 times as africa)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,709 ratings — published 1986
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The Shadow of the Sun (Paperback)
by Ryszard Kapuściński (shelved 31 times as africa)
avg rating 4.36 — 903 ratings — published 1998
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The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence (Paperback)
by Martin Meredith (shelved 31 times as africa)
avg rating 4.13 — 693 ratings — published 2005
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Paperback)
by Nelson Mandela (shelved 31 times as africa)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,634 ratings — published 1994
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West with the Night (Paperback)
by Beryl Markham (shelved 29 times as africa)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,649 ratings — published 1920
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Say You're One of Them (Hardcover)
by Uwem Akpan (shelved 28 times as africa)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,926 ratings — published 2008
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (Paperback)
by Roméo Dallaire (shelved 27 times as africa)
avg rating 4.31 — 843 ratings — published 2003
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The House at Sugar Beach: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by Helene Cooper (shelved 27 times as africa)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,908 ratings — published 2008
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Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #10)
by Alexander McCall Smith (shelved 25 times as africa)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,207 ratings — published 2009
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Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa (Paperback)
by Peter Godwin (shelved 24 times as africa)
avg rating 4.21 — 333 ratings — published 1996
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They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan (Paperback)
by Alephonsion Deng (shelved 24 times as africa)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,146 ratings — published 2005
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The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur (Hardcover)
by Daoud Hari (shelved 22 times as africa)
avg rating 4.07 — 799 ratings — published 2008
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The Constant Gardener (Paperback)
by John le Carré (shelved 22 times as africa)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,097 ratings — published 2000
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So Long a Letter (African Writers Series)
by Mariama Bâ (shelved 22 times as africa)
avg rating 3.72 — 533 ratings — published 1981
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Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by J.M. Coetzee (shelved 22 times as africa)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,961 ratings — published 1980
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A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by V.S. Naipaul (shelved 21 times as africa)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,616 ratings — published 1979
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (Paperback)
by Immaculee Ilibagiza (shelved 21 times as africa)
avg rating 4.50 — 5,487 ratings — published 2006
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The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by Paul Bowles (shelved 20 times as africa)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,940 ratings — published 1949
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Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by Tsitsi Dangarembga (shelved 20 times as africa)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,214 ratings — published 1988
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The Famished Road (Paperback)
by Ben Okri (shelved 20 times as africa)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,241 ratings — published 1991
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children (Hardcover)
by Melissa Fay Greene (shelved 20 times as africa)
avg rating 4.42 — 722 ratings — published 2006
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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Elspeth Huxley (shelved 20 times as africa)
avg rating 4.06 — 364 ratings — published 1959
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Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (P.S.)
by Uzodinma Iweala (shelved 20 times as africa)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,070 ratings — published 2005
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"“Anathema didn’t only believe in ley-lines, but in seals, whales, bicycles, rain forests, whole grain in loaves, recycled paper, white South Africans out of South Africa, and Americans out of practically everywhere down to and including Long Island.”"
— Terry Prachett & Neil Gaiman
— Terry Prachett & Neil Gaiman
"I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here.
--To his mistress, Catherine Walston who inspired The End of the Affair"
— Graham Greene
--To his mistress, Catherine Walston who inspired The End of the Affair"
— Graham Greene
Egypt’s Pharaoh to Visit U.S. for Mideast Plan
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