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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2502 times as africa)
avg rating 3.74 — 410,544 ratings — published 1958
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 1768 times as africa)
avg rating 4.11 — 790,703 ratings — published 1998
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1759 times as africa)
avg rating 4.47 — 399,584 ratings — published 2016
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1729 times as africa)
avg rating 4.34 — 182,047 ratings — published 2006
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1717 times as africa)
avg rating 4.31 — 410,265 ratings — published 2013
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1341 times as africa)
avg rating 3.43 — 555,806 ratings — published 1899
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1318 times as africa)
avg rating 4.49 — 799,351 ratings — published 2016
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 1241 times as africa)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,408 ratings — published 1998
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 1219 times as africa)
avg rating 3.81 — 275,299 ratings — published 1998
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1101 times as africa)
avg rating 4.18 — 141,814 ratings — published 2003
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1046 times as africa)
avg rating 4.33 — 424,826 ratings — published 2009
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1026 times as africa)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,795 ratings — published 2007
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 826 times as africa)
avg rating 3.91 — 47,834 ratings — published 1937
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 822 times as africa)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,365 ratings — published 1948
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 808 times as africa)
avg rating 3.64 — 349,007 ratings — published 2018
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 805 times as africa)
avg rating 3.86 — 116,588 ratings — published 1999
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 739 times as africa)
avg rating 3.97 — 57,589 ratings — published 2001
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 728 times as africa)
avg rating 4.22 — 36,626 ratings — published 1998
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 653 times as africa)
avg rating 4.36 — 93,839 ratings — published 1994
What Is the What (Hardcover)
by (shelved 632 times as africa)
avg rating 4.15 — 87,154 ratings — published 2006
Little Bee (Paperback)
by (shelved 624 times as africa)
avg rating 3.72 — 248,254 ratings — published 2008
Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
by (shelved 604 times as africa)
avg rating 3.98 — 60,661 ratings — published 2000
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 582 times as africa)
avg rating 4.06 — 65,450 ratings — published 2017
The Shadow of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 562 times as africa)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,097 ratings — published 1998
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 560 times as africa)
avg rating 4.42 — 172,172 ratings — published 2020
The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 552 times as africa)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,433 ratings — published 2005
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 515 times as africa)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,824 ratings — published 1988
West with the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 508 times as africa)
avg rating 4.15 — 40,847 ratings — published 1942
Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #3)
by (shelved 498 times as africa)
avg rating 3.99 — 45,927 ratings — published 2001
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 494 times as africa)
avg rating 4.39 — 328,134 ratings — published 2012
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 476 times as africa)
avg rating 4.22 — 49,663 ratings — published 2008
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 472 times as africa)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,334 ratings — published 2013
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 470 times as africa)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,574 ratings — published 2010
The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)
by (shelved 451 times as africa)
avg rating 4.01 — 42,443 ratings — published 2002
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 425 times as africa)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,299 ratings — published 1971
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 419 times as africa)
avg rating 4.07 — 32,445 ratings — published 2009
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town (Paperback)
by (shelved 415 times as africa)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,849 ratings — published 2002
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 414 times as africa)
avg rating 3.94 — 85,696 ratings — published 2016
A Long Walk to Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 406 times as africa)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,605 ratings — published 2010
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 400 times as africa)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,788 ratings — published 2015
Circling the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 399 times as africa)
avg rating 3.94 — 81,624 ratings — published 2015
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 398 times as africa)
avg rating 4.20 — 92,477 ratings — published 2006
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 392 times as africa)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,512 ratings — published 2006
The Power of One (The Power of One, #1)
by (shelved 377 times as africa)
avg rating 4.36 — 94,174 ratings — published 1989
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 377 times as africa)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,712 ratings — published 1979
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 367 times as africa)
avg rating 3.72 — 33,356 ratings — published 1966
The Full Cupboard of Life (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #5)
by (shelved 367 times as africa)
avg rating 4.03 — 34,770 ratings — published 2003
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 367 times as africa)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,027 ratings — published 2007
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 366 times as africa)
avg rating 4.12 — 67,803 ratings — published 2020
Say You're One of Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 353 times as africa)
avg rating 3.55 — 16,369 ratings — published 2008
“Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.”
― Things Fall Apart
― Things Fall Apart
“No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson











