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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Americanah
Half of a Yellow Sun
Homegoing
Purple Hibiscus
Disgrace
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
We Should All Be Feminists
Nervous Conditions
Stay with Me
The Thing Around Your Neck
The Girl with the Louding Voice
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
The Fishermen
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithOut of Africa by Isak DinesenDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Best books for an African Safari
475 books — 525 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,754 books — 1,633 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieFacing the Son by M.L. RudolphBuck by M.K. AsanteNightmare Along the River Nile by S.E. Nelson
Africa and the Diaspora
150 books — 70 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSo Long a Letter by Mariama BâNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best by African Authors
407 books — 222 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerKindred by Octavia E. ButlerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Best Black Historical Fiction
331 books — 306 voters
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverA Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna RaybournThe Ashford Affair by Lauren WilligThe Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret GeorgeThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Historical fiction: Africa
124 books — 47 voters

Idowu Koyenikan
You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.
idowu koyenikan, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

Abiola Abrams
You are divine. You are rich. You have good juju as you have inherited the greatest inheritance there is. You have the power to shift worlds and bend them to your will. Accept your ancestral inheritance now. You are heiress to a rich heritage of divine prosperity.
Abiola Abrams, African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy

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