🌍 African Literature: 114-Book Reading List Paginepagineapp.com Tick off each book as you read it. 1 of these 114 African classics are free to read online at pagineapp.com/classics/african , with author guides and links to the rest.
Africa’s 12 best books of the 20th century ☐ 1. Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe (1958)
☐ 2. Sosu’s Call — Meshack Asare (1999)
☐ 3. So Long a Letter — Mariama Bâ (1979)
☐ 4. Sleepwalking Land — Mia Couto (1992)
☐ 5. Nervous Conditions — Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988)
☐ 6. The African Origin of Civilization — Cheikh Anta Diop (1955)
☐ 7. Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade — Assia Djebar (1985)
☐ 8. The Cairo Trilogy — Naguib Mahfouz (1956)
☐ 9. Chaka — Thomas Mofolo (1925)
☐ 10. Collected Poems (Oeuvre poétique) — Léopold Sédar Senghor (1964)
☐ 11. Aké: The Years of Childhood — Wole Soyinka (1981)
☐ 12. A Grain of Wheat — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1967)
Africa’s 100 best: novels, stories, poetry & plays ☐ 13. Arrow of God — Chinua Achebe (1964)
☐ 14. Anowa — Ama Ata Aidoo (1970)
☐ 15. Zayni Barakat — Gamal al-Ghitani (1974)
☐ 16. The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo — Germano Almeida (1989)
☐ 17. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born — Ayi Kwei Armah (1968)
☐ 18. The Fortunes of Wangrin — Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1973)
☐ 19. The Sacred Night — Tahar Ben Jelloun (1987)
☐ 20. The Poor Christ of Bomba — Mongo Beti (1956)
☐ 21. A Dry White Season — André Brink (1979)
☐ 22. Riwan or the Sandy Track — Ken Bugul (1999)
☐ 23. The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar — Syl Cheney-Coker (1990)
☐ 24. The Simple Past — Driss Chraïbi (1954)
☐ 25. Life & Times of Michael K — J. M. Coetzee (1983)
☐ 26. Karingana ua Karingana — José Craveirinha (1974)
☐ 27. Climbié — Bernard Dadié (1956)
☐ 28. The Algeria Trilogy (La grande maison, L’incendie, Le métier à tisser) — Mohammed Dib (1952)
☐ 29. Tales of Amadou Koumba — Birago Diop (1947)
☐ 30. Murambi, The Book of Bones — Boubacar Boris Diop (2000)
☐ 31. The Joys of Motherhood — Buchi Emecheta (1979)
☐ 32. The Forest of a Thousand Daemons — D. O. Fagunwa (1938)
☐ 33. Maps — Nuruddin Farah (1986)
☐ 34. The Blood Knot — Athol Fugard (1961)
☐ 35. Burger’s Daughter — Nadine Gordimer (1979)
☐ 36. A Question of Power — Bessie Head (1973)
☐ 37. We Killed Mangy-Dog and Other Stories — Luís Bernardo Honwana (1964)
☐ 38. Bones — Chenjerai Hove (1988)
☐ 39. Abyssinian Chronicles — Moses Isegawa (1998)
☐ 40. The Wrath of the Ancestors — A. C. Jordan (1940)
☐ 41. The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena — Elsa Joubert (1978)
☐ 42. Ambiguous Adventure — Cheikh Hamidou Kane (1961)
☐ 43. Ualalapi — Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (1987)
☐ 44. The Suns of Independence — Ahmadou Kourouma (1968)
☐ 45. The Dark Child — Camara Laye (1953)
☐ 46. Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night — Sindiwe Magona (1991)
☐ 47. The House of Hunger — Dambudzo Marechera (1978)
☐ 48. An Attiéké for Elgass — Tierno Monénembo (1993)
☐ 49. Indaba, My Children — Credo Vusamazulu Mutwa (1964)
☐ 50. Devil on the Cross — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1980)
☐ 51. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali — Djibril Tamsir Niane (1960)
☐ 52. Inkinsela yaseMgungundlovu — Sibusiso Nyembezi (1961)
☐ 53. Labyrinths — Christopher Okigbo (1971)
☐ 54. The Famished Road — Ben Okri (1991)
☐ 55. The Old Man and the Medal — Ferdinand Oyono (1956)
☐ 56. Song of Lawino — Okot p’Bitek (1966)
☐ 57. Cry, the Beloved Country — Alan Paton (1948)
☐ 58. The Utopian Generation — Pepetela (1992)
☐ 59. Woman at Point Zero — Nawal El Saadawi (1975)
☐ 60. Season of Migration to the North — Tayeb Salih (1966)
☐ 61. The Young Man of Sand — Williams Sassine (1979)
☐ 62. God’s Bits of Wood — Ousmane Sembène (1960)
☐ 63. Third World Express — Mongane Wally Serote (1992)
☐ 64. Utenzi wa Vita vya Uhuru — Shaaban Robert (1967)
☐ 65. Life and a Half — Sony Labou Tansi (1979)
☐ 66. The Beggars’ Strike — Aminata Sow Fall (1979)
☐ 67. Death and the King’s Horseman — Wole Soyinka (1975)
☐ 68. Le mauvais sang — Tchicaya U Tam’si (1955)
☐ 69. The Palm-Wine Drinkard — Amos Tutuola (1952)
☐ 70. Butterfly Burning — Yvonne Vera (1998)
☐ 71. We, the Ones from Makulusu — José Luandino Vieira (1974)
☐ 72. Zulu Horizons — B. W. Vilakazi (1945)
☐ 73. Nedjma — Kateb Yacine (1956)
☐ 74. Death on the Asphalt — Abd al-Rahman al-Abnudi
Africa’s 100 best: history, memoir & ideas ☐ 75. Accumulation on a World Scale — Samir Amin (1970)
☐ 76. Male Daughters, Female Husbands — Ifi Amadiume (1987)
☐ 77. In My Father’s House — Kwame Anthony Appiah (1992)
☐ 78. Unity and Struggle — Amílcar Cabral (1979)
☐ 79. Ethiopia Unbound — J. E. Casely Hayford (1911)
☐ 80. Cutting the Rose — Efua Dorkenoo (1994)
☐ 81. African Philosophy: Myth and Reality — Paulin Hountondji (1976)
☐ 82. The History of the Yorubas — Samuel Johnson (1921)
☐ 83. Facing Mount Kenya — Jomo Kenyatta (1938)
☐ 84. History of Black Africa — Joseph Ki-Zerbo (1972)
☐ 85. Country of My Skull — Antjie Krog (1998)
☐ 86. Beyond the Masks — Amina Mama (1995)
☐ 87. Citizen and Subject — Mahmood Mamdani (1996)
☐ 88. Long Walk to Freedom — Nelson Mandela (1994)
☐ 89. The Soul of the White Ant — Eugène Marais (1925)
☐ 90. The Colonizer and the Colonized — Albert Memmi (1957)
☐ 91. The Struggle for Mozambique — Eduardo Mondlane (1969)
☐ 92. Down Second Avenue — Es’kia Mphahlele (1959)
☐ 93. The Invention of Africa — V. Y. Mudimbe (1988)
☐ 94. Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah — Kwame Nkrumah (1957)
☐ 95. Native Life in South Africa — Sol Plaatje (1916)
☐ 96. The Seed Is Mine — Charles van Onselen (1996)
Earlier African classics (free to read) ☐ 97. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano — Olaudah Equiano (1789) · free on Pagine
☐ 98. The Story of an African Farm — Olive Schreiner (1883)
☐ 99. Mhudi — Sol Plaatje (1930)
More modern African classics ☐ 100. No Longer at Ease — Chinua Achebe (1960)
☐ 101. Weep Not, Child — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1964)
☐ 102. The River Between — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1965)
☐ 103. The Lion and the Jewel — Wole Soyinka (1959)
☐ 104. When Rain Clouds Gather — Bessie Head (1968)
☐ 105. Petals of Blood — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1977)
☐ 106. July’s People — Nadine Gordimer (1981)
☐ 107. Waiting for the Barbarians — J. M. Coetzee (1980)
☐ 108. Disgrace — J. M. Coetzee (1999)
☐ 109. Purple Hibiscus — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2003)
☐ 110. Half of a Yellow Sun — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006)
☐ 111. Wizard of the Crow — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (2006)
☐ 112. Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)
☐ 113. Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi (2016)
☐ 114. Stay with Me — Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (2017)
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