Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in Africa.
Africa
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: A Novel
by Shubnum Khan
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
"A dark and heady dream of a book" (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous
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The Rest of You
by Maame Blue
Paperback: Oct 2024
An internationally award-winning writer makes her triumphant American debut in this emotionally powerful story—a potent blend of Queenie and The Vanishing Half—about a woman's journey to uncover a foundational family secret from the ...
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The Message
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hardcover: Oct 2024
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don't—shape our realities.
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Before the Mango Ripens
by Afabwaje Kurian
Hardcover: Sep 2024
Set against the backdrop of 1970s Nigeria teetering between post-colonial dependency and self-rule, Before the Mango Ripens examines the enduring themes of faith, disillusionment, and the search for belonging. Both epic and intimate, Afabwaje Kurian'...
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Beyond the Door of No Return: A Novel
by David Diop
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.
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Masquerade
by O.O. Sangoyomi
Hardcover: Jul 2024
Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman's fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she'll go to secure her future.
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Call and Response: Stories
by Gothataone Moeng
Hardcover: Feb 2023
Paperback: Feb 2024
Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate relationships, tradition and caretaking in a rapidly changing world.
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The History of a Difficult Child: A Novel
by Mihret Sibhat
Hardcover: Jun 2023
Paperback: Feb 2024
A breathtaking, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family who must grow up in the wake of Ethiopia's socialist revolution
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Dazzling
by Chikodili Emelumadu
Hardcover: Dec 2023
The Girl with the Louding Voice meets The Water Dancer in Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ's magical, award-winning literary debut, Dazzling, offering a new take on West African mythology.
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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
by Dipo Faloyin
Hardcover: Sep 2022
Paperback: Nov 2023
An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting portrait of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity, by one of its leading new writers.
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Afterlives: A Novel
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Hardcover: Aug 2022
Paperback: Sep 2023
From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of East Africa.
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African Europeans: An Untold History
by Olivette Otele
Hardcover: May 2021
Paperback: Aug 2023
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent.
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