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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 638 times as african)
avg rating 3.75 — 427,488 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 376 times as african)
avg rating 4.31 — 427,482 ratings — published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 366 times as african)
avg rating 4.34 — 193,401 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 312 times as african)
avg rating 4.46 — 430,748 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as african)
avg rating 4.18 — 151,793 ratings — published 2003
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as african)
avg rating 3.63 — 383,051 ratings — published 2018
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as african)
avg rating 3.86 — 122,110 ratings — published 1999
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as african)
avg rating 4.48 — 851,786 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 162 times as african)
avg rating 4.39 — 342,606 ratings — published 2012
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as african)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,443 ratings — published 1988
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as african)
avg rating 4.06 — 68,855 ratings — published 2017
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as african)
avg rating 4.22 — 52,040 ratings — published 2008
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as african)
avg rating 4.42 — 181,498 ratings — published 2020
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as african)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,252 ratings — published 2010
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as african)
avg rating 4.10 — 260,413 ratings — published 2018
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as african)
avg rating 3.88 — 23,007 ratings — published 2015
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as african)
avg rating 4.00 — 13,697 ratings — published 1980
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as african)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,756 ratings — published 2020
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as african)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,892 ratings — published 2013
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as african)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,579 ratings — published 1966
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as african)
avg rating 4.09 — 168,815 ratings — published 2020
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 93 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,651 ratings — published 1961
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as african)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,108 ratings — published 2007
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as african)
avg rating 3.81 — 280,163 ratings — published 1998
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as african)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,291 ratings — published 1967
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 81,378 ratings — published 1948
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,302 ratings — published 1980
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as african)
avg rating 4.12 — 815,173 ratings — published 1998
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as african)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,973 ratings — published 1991
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as african)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,281 ratings — published 2018
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as african)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,779 ratings — published 2016
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as african)
avg rating 4.50 — 90,432 ratings — published 2017
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as african)
avg rating 4.34 — 440,106 ratings — published 2009
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as african)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,233 ratings — published 2011
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 73 times as african)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,862 ratings — published 1964
At Night All Blood is Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as african)
avg rating 3.79 — 30,823 ratings — published 2018
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as african)
avg rating 3.43 — 577,098 ratings — published 1899
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as african)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,966 ratings — published 2015
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as african)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,606 ratings — published 2015
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as african)
avg rating 4.36 — 97,659 ratings — published 1991
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as african)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,808 ratings — published 1979
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as african)
avg rating 3.76 — 55,657 ratings — published 2025
His Only Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 3.73 — 34,250 ratings — published 2020
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,582 ratings — published 2013
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,535 ratings — published 1968
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,932 ratings — published 2004
Life & Times of Michael K (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,035 ratings — published 1983
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as african)
avg rating 3.71 — 4,087 ratings — published 1952
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 29,071 ratings — published 2010
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“America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big teeth that bite and hurt. And we take care of America. We hold America to our bosom; we feed America, we make love to America. There wouldn't be an America if it wasn't for black people. So you have some dedicated black Americans who will die a million deaths to save America. And this is home for us. We don't know really about Africa. We talk it in a romantic sense, but America is it. And so, America is always going to be okay as long as black people don't totally lose their mind, cause we'll pick up the pieces and turn it into a new dance.”
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“The most powerful ancestral or generational curse we face is our unhealed trauma.”
― African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
― African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
