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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 163 times as africa)
avg rating 3.97 — 125,777 ratings — published 1998
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Things Fall Apart (Paperback)
by Chinua Achebe (shelved 154 times as africa)
avg rating 3.60 — 28,121 ratings — published 1958
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What Is the What (Hardcover)
by Dave Eggers (shelved 110 times as africa)
avg rating 4.21 — 24,571 ratings — published 2006
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by Alexander McCall Smith (shelved 110 times as africa)
avg rating 3.64 — 23,276 ratings — published 1998
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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 — 17,466 ratings — published 2007
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Paperback)
by Alexandra Fuller (shelved 99 times as africa)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,164 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 — 3,334 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 76 times as africa)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,579 ratings — published 1999
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Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by Alan Paton (shelved 68 times as africa)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,032 ratings — published 1948
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Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
by Joseph Conrad (shelved 67 times as africa)
avg rating 3.41 — 24,551 ratings — published 1902
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Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (shelved 66 times as africa)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,673 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 — 8,121 ratings — published 2002
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Out of Africa (Modern Library)
by Isak Dinesen (shelved 57 times as africa)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,534 ratings — published 1937
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Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (shelved 53 times as africa)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,091 ratings — published 2003
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Disgrace (Penguin Essential Edition)
by J.M. Coetzee (shelved 53 times as africa)
avg rating 3.83 — 9,583 ratings — published 1999
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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 — 6,519 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 — 7,695 ratings — published 1998
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The Power of One (Paperback)
by Bryce Courtenay (shelved 41 times as africa)
avg rating 4.37 — 10,334 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 — 1,369 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 3.95 — 5,680 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 — 5,342 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 4.00 — 4,459 ratings — published 2005
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Infidel (Hardcover)
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (shelved 36 times as africa)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,215 ratings — published 2006
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Scribbling the Cat (Paperback)
by Alexandra Fuller (shelved 35 times as africa)
avg rating 3.67 — 721 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 — 4,090 ratings — published 2008
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown (Paperback)
by Paul Theroux (shelved 34 times as africa)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,624 ratings — published 2002
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The Shadow of the Sun (Paperback)
by Ryszard Kapuściński (shelved 32 times as africa)
avg rating 4.36 — 914 ratings — published 1998
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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 — 4,545 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 4.14 — 1,725 ratings — published 1986
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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 — 703 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 4.32 — 2,684 ratings — published 1996
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West with the Night (Paperback)
by Beryl Markham (shelved 29 times as africa)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,705 ratings — published 1920
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Say You're One of Them (Hardcover)
by Uwem Akpan (shelved 28 times as africa)
avg rating 3.63 — 3,347 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 4.29 — 856 ratings — published 2003
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The House at Sugar Beach: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by Helene Cooper (shelved 26 times as africa)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,946 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 — 2,302 ratings — published 2009
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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 25 times as africa)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,172 ratings — published 2005
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Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa (Paperback)
by Peter Godwin (shelved 24 times as africa)
avg rating 4.21 — 337 ratings — published 1996
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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 — 810 ratings — published 2008
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The Constant Gardener (Paperback)
by John le Carré (shelved 22 times as africa)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,129 ratings — published 2000
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So Long a Letter (African Writers Series)
by Mariama Bâ (shelved 22 times as africa)
avg rating 3.71 — 538 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 — 2,998 ratings — published 1980
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The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by Paul Bowles (shelved 21 times as africa)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,963 ratings — published 1949
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A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by V.S. Naipaul (shelved 21 times as africa)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,635 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 4.51 — 5,589 ratings — published 2006
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Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by Tsitsi Dangarembga (shelved 20 times as africa)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,227 ratings — published 1988
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Unbowed (Hardcover)
by Wangari Maathai (shelved 20 times as africa)
avg rating 3.91 — 669 ratings — published 2006
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The Famished Road (Paperback)
by Ben Okri (shelved 20 times as africa)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,263 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 4.43 — 736 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 4.07 — 371 ratings — published 1959
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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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