African literature novels

The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives by Lola Shoneyin Award-Winning African Novel Paperback

A modern classic of Afric

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Butter Honey Pig Bread

A novel Fiction African literature LGBT , Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women : Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non human spirit that plagues a family with misfortune by being born and then dying in childhood to cause a human mother misery.

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The Death of Comrade President A Novel Book by Alain Mabanckou

Through this personal lens, Mabanckou examines the broader consequences of political instability, corruption, and the legacy of colonialism in Congo. Alain Mabanckou, a celebrated Francophone Congolese writer and professor of literature at UCLA, is known for his sharp, often satirical portrayals of African society and the African diaspora.

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Stay With Me

Feed, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Post, Southern Living, The Skimm

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The Death Of Vivek Oji A Novel

A novel LGBTQ Adult fiction African literature , Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in friendships with the warm, boisterous daughters of the Nigerwives, foreign born women married to Nigerian men.

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The Death of Comrade President A Novel Book by Alain Mabanckou

Through this personal lens, Mabanckou examines the broader consequences of political instability, corruption, and the legacy of colonialism in Congo. Alain Mabanckou, a celebrated Francophone Congolese writer and professor of literature at UCLA, is known for his sharp, often satirical portrayals of African society and the African diaspora.

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Son Of Woman

Charles Mangua is a prolific writer of popular literature, and author of three other novels, Son of Woman in Mombasa (the sequel to Son of Woman), A Tail in the Mouth, and Kanina and I. Fast Delivery Returns accepted , An instant success and bestseller in Kenya, which ran into 6 reprints, this prize winning novel marked the beginning of popular literature in Kenya.

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Butter Honey Pig Bread A Novel By Francesca Ekwuyasi

Spanning three continents

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Americanah By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

S. and the UK, raising universal questions of race, belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the search for identity and a home.

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Black Moses Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017 byAlain Mabanckou

Black Moses is described as a poignant and humorous coming of age story that explores themes of identity, survival, and the effects of political repression on ordinary people’s lives, making it a significant work in contemporary African literature. It was longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize in 2017.

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The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives by Lola Shoneyin

Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Literary Fiction / African Literature Rating: ⭐ 3.91 / 5 Awards / Recognition: Winner of the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Literary Award. , Set in contemporary Nigeria, this novel delves into the hidden tensions within a polygamous household.

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The Death of Comrade President Book By Alain Mabanckou

This satirical novel masterfully bridges the gap between the small scale worries of everyday childhood and the grand tragedy of national political upheaval. Through the perspective of the naive but book smart narrator, Michel, Mabanckou examines the nuances of human behavior in a society gripped by sudden change and suspicion.

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Stay With Me A Novel

Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage—after consulting fertility doctors and healers, and trying strange teas and unlikely cures—Yejide is still not pregnant.

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Stay with Me A novel

Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage—after consulting fertility doctors and healers, and trying strange teas and unlikely cures—Yejide is still not pregnant.

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Nervous Conditions

Through its deft negotiation of race, class, gender and cultural change, it dramatizes the ‘nervousness’ of the ‘postcolonial’ conditions that bedevil us still. In Tambu and the women of her family, we African women see ourselves, whether at home or displaced, doing daily battle with our changing world with a mixture of tenacity, bewilderment and grace.

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Stay with Me A novel

Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage—after consulting fertility doctors and healers, and trying strange teas and unlikely cures—Yejide is still not pregnant.

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The Concubine Novel by Elechi Amadi

Amadi’s work remains an enduring classic of African literature, resonating for its depth, humanity, and evocative sense of place. , "The Concubine" (first published in 1966) is a classic work of African literature by Nigerian author Elechi Amadi.

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African Classics Global Thrillers 6-Book Collection Featuring Achebe Adichie Brown Michaelides

This 6-book collection br

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The Concubine Novel by Elechi Amadi

Amadi’s work remains an enduring classic of African literature, resonating for its depth, humanity, and evocative sense of place. , "The Concubine" (first published in 1966) is a classic work of African literature by Nigerian author Elechi Amadi.

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Son Of Woman In Mombasa

Fast Delivery Returns accepted , A sequel to the bestselling The Son of Woman, written in Mangua’s now familiar engaging, cynical and humorous style. In this novel, the Son of Woman has come out of jail and moved to Mombasa to start afresh.

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Butter Honey Pig Bread A Novel By Francesca Ekwuyasi

For readers of African diasporic authors such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious appetites, of queer love, of friendship, faith, and above all, family.

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Mandate Of The People

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And So I Roar A Novel

And Adunni will learn that her “louding voice,” as she calls it, is more important than ever, as she must advocate to save not only herself but all the young women of her home village, Ikati. If she succeeds, she may transform Ikati into a place where girls are allowed to claim the bright futures they deserve—and shout their stories to the world.

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The Lion And The Jewel

About the Author Wole Soyinka, an internationally acclaimed playwright, essayist, and memoirist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. In exile from his Nigerian homeland, Soyinka divides his time between London and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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STAY WITH ME

Starred Review. Telling the story from both Akin's and Yejide's perspectives, Adebayo describes parenthood and love with heartbreaking prose.

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STAY WITH ME

Starred Review. Telling the story from both Akin's and Yejide's perspectives, Adebayo describes parenthood and love with heartbreaking prose.

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Black Moses Book By Alain Mabanckou

, A vibrant tale of survival and identity set in 1970s Congo. Black Moses navigates orphanhood, revolution, and the search for belonging.

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Yinka Where Is Your Husband

Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? Contemporary romance Adult fiction African literature Chick lit , Meet Yinka: a thirty something, Oxford educated, British Nigerian woman with a well paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is "Yinka, where is your huzband ?"

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Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war. Fast Delivery , Half of a Yellow Sun With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene

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Beneath the Lions Gaze A Novel

Emotionally gripping, poetic, and indelibly tragic, Beneath The Lion’s Gaze is a transcendent and powerful debut. ✓ Fast delivery: 1 24hrs only ✓ Pay on Delivery , Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution.

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Yinka Where Is Your Husband - A Novel

Meet Yinka: a thirty-some

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The Hairdresser Of Harare

Novel African Literature Fiction Great read , Like very good dark chocolate this is a delicious novel , with a bitter sweet flavour Vimbai is a hairdresser, the best in Mrs Khumalo's salon, and she knows she is the queen on whom they all depend. Her situation is reversed when the good looking, smooth talking Dumisani joins them.

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Purple Hibiscus

Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins' laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.

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Purple Hibiscus Novel By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

, Purple Hibiscus is a coming of age novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche which tells the story of Kambili Achike and her family. It addresses the issues of identity, gender, and violence in post colonial Nigeria.

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Purple Hibiscus Novel By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

, Purple Hibiscus is a coming of age novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche which tells the story of Kambili Achike and her family. It addresses the issues of identity, gender, and violence in post colonial Nigeria.

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Purple Hibiscus Novel By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

, Purple Hibiscus is a coming of age novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche which tells the story of Kambili Achike and her family. It addresses the issues of identity, gender, and violence in post colonial Nigeria.

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Stay with Me A novel By Ayobami Adebayo

, Ilesa, Nigeria. Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them.

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The Lion And The Jewel

About the Author Wole Soyinka, an internationally acclaimed playwright, essayist, and memoirist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. In exile from his Nigerian homeland, Soyinka divides his time between London and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Beneath the Lions Gaze A Novel

Beneath the Lion’s Gaze tells a gripping story of family, of the bonds of love and friendship set in a time and place that has rarely been explored in fiction. It is a story about the lengths human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution.

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A MAN OF THE PEOPLE BY Achebe Chinua

A Man of the People by Ch

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The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives by Lola Shoneyin Award-Winning African Novel Paperback

Butter Honey Pig Bread

The Death of Comrade President A Novel Book by Alain Mabanckou

Stay With Me

The Death Of Vivek Oji A Novel

The Death of Comrade President A Novel Book by Alain Mabanckou

Son Of Woman

Butter Honey Pig Bread A Novel By Francesca Ekwuyasi

Americanah By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Black Moses Longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize 2017 byAlain Mabanckou

The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives by Lola Shoneyin

The Death of Comrade President Book By Alain Mabanckou

Stay With Me A Novel

Stay with Me A novel

Nervous Conditions

Stay with Me A novel

The Concubine Novel by Elechi Amadi

African Classics Global Thrillers 6-Book Collection Featuring Achebe Adichie Brown Michaelides

The Concubine Novel by Elechi Amadi

Son Of Woman In Mombasa

Butter Honey Pig Bread A Novel By Francesca Ekwuyasi

Mandate Of The People

And So I Roar A Novel

The Lion And The Jewel

STAY WITH ME

STAY WITH ME

Black Moses Book By Alain Mabanckou

Yinka Where Is Your Husband

Half of a Yellow Sun

Beneath the Lions Gaze A Novel

Yinka Where Is Your Husband - A Novel

The Hairdresser Of Harare

Purple Hibiscus

Purple Hibiscus Novel By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Purple Hibiscus Novel By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Purple Hibiscus Novel By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stay with Me A novel By Ayobami Adebayo

The Lion And The Jewel

Beneath the Lions Gaze A Novel

A MAN OF THE PEOPLE BY Achebe Chinua