African


Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Americanah
Half of a Yellow Sun
Homegoing
Purple Hibiscus
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Disgrace
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
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriCutting for Stone by Abraham   Verghese
Immigrant Voices (fiction)
383 books — 261 voters
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret GeorgeThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Ashford Affair by Lauren WilligHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Historical fiction: Africa
125 books — 48 voters

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
476 books — 524 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
341 books — 342 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Fictitious Africa
557 books — 278 voters

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nadia Owusu
I don't want people to think I mind being mistaken for African American. I don't. There are, however, many African immigrants in America who, to climb the social ladder, resist being categorized, by white people, with African Americans. Some even go so far as to claim superiority. This is not surprising. In America, the racial hierarchy has white at the top and black on the bottom. *We're not that kind of black,* I have heard a member of my own family--an uncle-- argue when a white person levele ...more
Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks

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