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Contemporary Literature (CL) - overview 2011-2015
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One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (other topics)Black Mamba Boy (other topics)
Half Blood Blues (other topics)
The Lost Boy (other topics)
GraceLand (other topics)
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Mixed, multiple countries, diaspora...
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan - Join the discussion (Set in Berlin 1930's)
Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed - Join the discussion (East Africa)
The Lost Boy by Aher Arop Bol - Join the discussion (East Africa)
Nigeria
GraceLand by Chris Abani - Join the discussion
The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo - Join the discussion
I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani - Join the discussion
Fine Boys by Eghosa Imasuen - Join the discussion
Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta - Join the discussion from first group read
discussion from second group read
Open City by Teju Cole (Nigeria/New York) - Join the discussion
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Join the discussion
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Join the discussion
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe - Join the discussion
Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa - Join the discussion
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin - Join the discussion
On Black Sisters Street by Chika Unigwe (Nigeria/Belgium) - Join the discussion
Kenya
Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor - Join the discussion
Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o - Join the discussion
Nairobi Heat by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ - Join the discussion
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir by Binyavanga Wainaina - Join the discussion
Non-Fiction/Kenya
Dreams in a Time of War by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o - Join the discussion
South Africa
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee - Join the discussion
The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda - Join the discussion
Men of the South by Zukiswa Wanner - Join the discussion
South Africa + Angola (2 books in the same thread)
Jaime Bunda, Secret Agent: Story of Various Mysteries by Pepetela
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
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Zimbabwe
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo - Join the discussion
The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini - Join the discussion
Libya
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar - Join the discussion Discussed more as Libya stopover on the Tour D'Afrique
Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar - Join the discussion
Egypt
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat - Join the discussion
Algeria
What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra - Join the discussion
Ethiopia
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia) - Join the discussion
Sierra Leone
Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna - Join the discussion