Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Non-Orientalist Approach to African Studies - Recommended Novels


1.     Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe

2.     The God of Small Things: A Novel by Arundhati Roy

3.     A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe

4.     Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta

5.     No Sweetness Here and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo

6.     A Grain of Wheat (African Writers Series) by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

7.     Tsotsi: A Novel by Athol Fugard

8.     So Long a Letter (African Writers Series) by Mariama B

9.     Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta

10.  Purple Hibiscus: A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

11.  The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

12.  Efuru (African Writers) by Flora Nwapa

13.  Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

14.  Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

15.  God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane

16.  July's People by Nadine Gordimer

17.  Mother to Mother (Bluestreak) by Sindiwe Magona

18.  Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

19.  Girls at War by Chinua Achebe

20.  One is Enough (African Women Writers Series) by Flora Nwapa

21.  Xala by Ousmane Sembene

22.  Khabzela: The Life and Times of a South African by Liz McGregor

23.  The Slave Girl: A Novel by Buchi Emecheta

24.  Never Again (Africa Women Writers Series) by Flora Nwapa

25.  African Perspectives on Colonialism (The Johns H... by A. Adu Boahen

26.  Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo

27.  Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Revised Edition) (Lon... by D T Niane

28.  African Short Stories by Chinua Achebe

29.  Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol (African Writers) by Okot P'Bitek

30.  The Famished Road by Ben Okri

31.  The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of... by Amos Tutuola

32.  Chaka (African Writers) by Thomas Mofolo

33.  Houseboy (African Writers) by Ferdinand Oyono

34.  The Concubine by Elechi Amadi

35.  Yoruba Trickster Tales by Oyekan Owomoyela

36.  No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe

37.  Death and the King's Horseman (Norton Critica... by Wole Soyinka

38.  Unbowed: A Memoir (Vintage) by Wangari Maathai

39.  Scarlet Song by Mariama Ba

40.  Nehanda by Yvonne Vera

41.  Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo

42.  Oroonoko (Penguin Classics) by Aphra Behn

43.  Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta

44.  Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf

The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior: An … by Tepilit Ole Saitoti

Ake: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka

Sozaboy by Ken Saro-Wiwa

48.  The Poor Christ of Bomba by Mongo Beti

A Walk in the Night and Other Stories by Alex La Guma

50.  Weep Not, Child (African Writers) by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

51.  The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (African … by Ayi Kwei Armah

52.  Comes the Voyager at Last: A Tale of Return to Africa by Kofi Awoonor

53.  This Earth, My Brother by Kofi Awoonor

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