World Literature - Africa - General

  • The Shipikisha Club

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    Kabwe, Zambia: Sali, a working mother of three, stands trial for the murder of her husband, Kasunga. The prosecutor claims Sali shot him after a heated fight in their bedroom. There are no witnesses. [more below]

    • Author: Kalimamukwento, Mubanga
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 334
    • Publish Date: March 10 2026
    • ISBN10: 1938603753
    • Language: English
  • Wilderness of Mirrors

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    Exquisitely written and deeply absorbing, this debut from Caine Prize-winning author Olufemi Terry captures the heady abandon of early adulthood in a country still reeling from the lasting effects of

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    • Author: Terry, Olufemi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 09 2025
    • ISBN10: 1632063980
    • Language: English
  • Dealing with the Dead

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    From one of Africa’s greatest living writers, a ghostly reckoning with Congolese history


    “Alain Mabanckou addresses the reader with exuberant inventiveness in novels that are brilliantly imaginative i

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    • Author: Mabanckou, Alain
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: September 16 2025
    • ISBN10: 1620979551
    • Language: English
  • These Letters End in Tears

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    Set in a country where being gay is punishable by law, These Letters End in Tears is the heart-wrenching forbidden love story of a Christian girl with a rebellious heart and a Muslim girl leading a do[more below]

    • Author: Xaviere, Musih Tedji
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 03 2025
    • ISBN10: 1646222741
    • Language: English
  • African Stories

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    A Pocket Classics hardcover collection of a century of 36 terrific stories by major writers from across Africa, selected by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri

    Award-winning w

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  • Riambel

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    Fifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family.

    Just across the road from the slums where she grew up, she encounters a world that

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    • Author: Hein, Priya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: May 30 2023
    • ISBN10: 1911648497
    • Language: English
  • The Villain’s Dance

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    Full of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain’s Dance shows Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang.

    Zaire. Late 90’s. Mobutu’s thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, th

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    • Author: Mwanza Mujila, Fiston
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: March 12 2024
    • ISBN10: 1646051270
    • Language: English
  • These Letters End in Tears

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    Set in a country where being gay is punishable by law, These Letters End in Tears is the heart-wrenching forbidden love story of a Christian girl with a rebellious heart and a Muslim girl leading a do[more below]

    • Author: Xaviere, Musih Tedji
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: March 12 2024
    • ISBN10: 1646221869
    • Language: English
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