{"id":57806,"date":"2022-07-21T16:28:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T15:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/?p=57806"},"modified":"2022-07-21T16:28:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T15:28:12","slug":"these-books-by-african-authors-will-transport-you-from-algeria-to-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/en\/these-books-by-african-authors-will-transport-you-from-algeria-to-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"These books by African authors will transport you from Algeria to Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"

n her 2009 TED talk “The Danger of a Single Story<\/a>,” Nigerian author\u00a0Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recalls the moment “when I discovered African books.” Stumbling into writers “like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye” forever changed her understanding of literature, and the kind of stories she herself began to write \u2013 stories filled not with Americans and Europeans like those she grew up reading, but those populated with the kinds of people and places she knew intimately from her own life.<\/p>\n

Despite being home to 54 countries, over 2,000 languages, and a billion people, Adichie notes that Africa is often reduced to a single idea about a single place through repeated tales that have become, in the larger cultural consciousness, a “single story of catastrophe.” Thankfully, however, more and more readers are, like Adichie, discovering African books and the wondrous variety within vibrant\u00a0literary communities from Lagos to Cape Town, from Cairo to Harare.<\/p>\n

More and more writers, too, are finding opportunities to tell the stories of their own countries from their own perspectives, challenging that single story and offering up dozens of richer alternatives. As a result, readers around the world are eagerly traveling to countries from Burkina Faso to Libya to Zanzibar one page at a time, getting an intimate locals perspective not only on back streets and inside quotidian households, but also on grand historic events, subtleties of language and translation, and the varying shades of humor and wit that vary from culture to culture.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re ready to travel to Africa not as a frequent flyer but a page turner, check out these must-read African books from Algeria to Zambia.<\/p>\n

Our editorial team provides independent recommendations to help you make the most of your travel experiences. When you make a purchase through the included links, we may earn an affiliate commission.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Algeria<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Tomboy<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>by Nina Bouraoui
\n“I hear the sea advancing, the sound of freighters leaving Africa. I belong to the sand, the sea, and the wind. I am in Algeria. France is far away, behind the huge and dangerous waves. It is invisible and imagined.” So begins\u00a0Tomboy,\u00a0<\/em>a semi-autobiographical tale of 1970s\u00a0Algeria<\/a>\u00a0written\u00a0a fragmented modernist style that reflects the rhythm of the surf against the\u00a0Algiers<\/a>\u00a0coast, the country’s fractured political landscape at the time, and the protagonist’s own uncertainties about language, nationality, and identity.<\/p>\n

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Angola<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Transparent City<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Ondjaki
\nConsidered one of the best books in translation of 2019, Ondjaki’s\u00a0Transparent City<\/em>\u00a0is set in the Angolan city of Luanda, where a man named\u00a0Odonato searches for his missing son. Following Odonato through the city, the reader encounters a magical realist urban landscape where buildings breathe,\u00a0muxima<\/em>\u00a0music fills the hallways, and the past is just out of reach.<\/p>\n

Cameroon<\/strong><\/h4>\n

When the Plums Are Ripe<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Patrice Nganang
\nIn\u00a0When the Plums Are Ripe,\u00a0<\/em>Nganang blends the grand scale of the historical novel with lyrical African oral tradition, asserting the Cameroonian perspective on how France dragged its colony into World War II, with consequences not just in the capital of\u00a0Yaounde<\/a>, the village of \u00c9d\u00e9a, or at the battle sites of Kufra and Murzur, but throughout\u00a0North Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction From Cameroon to Nigeria<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Emmanuel Iduma, Dami Ajayi and Dzekashu MacViban
\nIf the heart of African literature is making space for Africans to tell their own stories, then Iduma, Ajayi, and MacViban’s anthology of creative nonfiction by a variety of writers is right at the center of the canon. The collected works form a delightful conversation between two countries that have been tangled up in one another for decades, and break through “artificial constructs like borders on the African continent.”<\/p>\n

Republic of Congo\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Lights of Pointe-Noire<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Alain Mabancko
\nA finalist for the\u00a0Man Booker International Prize, Mabancko’s memoir of returning to the contemporary\u00a0Republic of Congo<\/a>\u00a0after twenty years in Paris is an exploration of how places (as well as people)\u00a0can change, the power of memory, and what it means to be from somewhere, all rooted in the cinemas, churches, and winding streets of Pointe-Noire.<\/p>\n

You may also like:\u00a0<\/strong>A tale of two cities: Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire<\/a><\/p>\n

Egypt<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Midaq Alley<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Naguib Mahfouz
\nTravel can be a form of time travel, and so can literature \u2013 a curious truth embodied by\u00a0Midaq Alley,\u00a0<\/em>a vivid foray into the back streets of 1940s\u00a0Cairo<\/a>\u00a0written a generation later by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz in 1966.<\/p>\n

As Trevor Le Gassick \u2013 who translated the novel out of Arabic \u2013\u00a0notes in the introduction,\u00a0Midaq Alley<\/em>\u00a0“provides glimpses of unusual intimacy into Egypt in a period of fast transition” though he warns that “both the locale and the events of this novel should certainly not be viewed within the narrow framework of time.”<\/p>\n

Ethiopia<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Shadow King<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Maaza Mengiste
\nThere are many stories overlooked in the history books, including that of Ethiopia’s women soldiers who fought on behalf of the exiled Emperor Haile Selassie against Mussolini’s troops in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.<\/p>\n

Mengiste brings that conflict, and the bravery of\u00a0arbegnoch<\/em>\u00a0resistance fighters, to life through her protagonist Hirut, a maid who is swept up in this 1935 prelude to World War II. It’s a stunning novel that made the long list for the 2020 Man Booker Prize \u2013 the first time a writer from\u00a0Ethiopia<\/a>\u00a0has been nominated.<\/p>\n

Unbury Our Dead With Song<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by M\u0169koma wa Ng\u0169g\u0129
\nThough\u00a0wa Ng\u0169g\u0129’s novel about four musicians who play\u00a0tizita<\/em>\u00a0(Ethiopian blues music) won’t be out until May of 2021, it promises to be well worth pre-ordering.\u00a0Unbury Our Dead With Song\u00a0<\/em>moves between an underground venue in\u00a0Nairobi, Kenya<\/a>\u00a0and the musicians homes back in Ethiopia, and digs deep into this distinctly African musical genre.<\/p>\n

Equatorial Guinea<\/strong><\/h4>\n

La Bastarda<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Trifonia Melibea Obono
\nOne of the reasons African literature is only just now reaching a wider audience is the challenge of translation \u2013 whether out of endemic languages like Swahili or colonial tongues like Portuguese and German. Thankfully more and more literature is being thoughtfully brought into translation, like Trifonia Melibea Obono’s\u00a0La Bastarda,\u00a0<\/em>which\u00a0<\/em>has the distinction of being the first work by an Equatorial Guinean woman to make the leap to English.<\/p>\n

La Bastarda\u00a0<\/em>is also distinguished by thoughtful attention to the tensions that can exist between traditional cultures like that of\u00a0Equatorial Guinea<\/a>‘s\u00a0Fang people and the contemporary queer community as heroine Okomo is drawn into a underground scene of sexual revolution in this compelling\u00a0bildungsroman.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ghana<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Hundred Wells of Salaga<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Ayesha Harruna Attah
\nThis is the\u00a0tale of two women\u00a0in pre-colonial Salaga,\u00a0Ghana<\/a>, where the slave trade is alive and well \u2013 unfortunately for Aminah, who soon finds herself in bondage, while her counterpart Wurche finds herself navigating the\u00a0patriarchal web of 19th century politics. Attah’s novel rejects widely-accepted oversimplifications of African history and cultural hegemony, giving complexities of faith, language, and power their due.<\/p>\n

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The Colonial era slave trade castle of Elmina, Ghana \u00a9Everyday Explorations\/500px<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Guinea Bissau<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Ultimate Tragedy<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Abdulai Sil\u00e1
\nOstensibly the story of a teenager named Ndani as she navigates life under colonial rule in\u00a0Guinea Bissau<\/a>, there’s more to\u00a0The Ultimate Tragedy\u00a0<\/em>than meets the eye.\u00a0The\u00a0first\u00a0Guinea Bissauan novel to be translated into English\u00a0doesn’t lose the intricacies of language crucial to the\u00a0original Portuguese. Instead, it maintains the tension of Sil\u00e1’s prose, which is punctuated with\u00a0the local creole\u00a0and a storytelling style that stems from long-standing oral tradition.<\/p>\n

Kenya<\/strong><\/h4>\n

One Day I Will Write About This Place<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Binyavanga Wainaina
\nHailed by Publishers Weekly as “A Kenyan\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,”\u00a0<\/i>Wainaina’s\u00a0One Day I Will Write About This Place<\/em>\u00a0is a rich stream of consciousness made more absorbing by the author’s attention to the way we think across language, slipping between English, Kiswahili, and others.<\/p>\n

The Dragonfly Sea<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
\nOwuor pulls at the threads tying contemporary\u00a0Kenya<\/a>\u00a0to foreign interests from China to Turkey in this bildungsroman about Ayaana, a young girl\u00a0on Pat\u00e9 Island in the Indian Ocean \u2013\u00a0“the Lamu Archipelago\u2019s largest and sullenest island.” When a man from\u00a0Nanjing<\/a>\u00a0arrives, a chain of events is set in motion that sends\u00a0Ayaana far from home, into bewildering adventures.<\/p>\n

Lesotho<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Chaka<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Thomas Mofolo
\nThe lesser-known kingdom of\u00a0Lesotho<\/a>, surrounded by South Africa, is best known for its stunning national park, waterfalls, and alpine adventures, and as home to the\u00a0the Basotho people. Mofolo’s classic of historical fiction brings the Zulu king Chaka’s legacy to life. First written in 1910 in the\u00a0Sesotho language, it’s since been translated by Daniel P. Kunene, and offers\u00a0an action-packed, if fictionalized, account of Chaka’s rule from 1816 to 1828.<\/p>\n

Liberia<\/strong><\/h4>\n

She Would Be King<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Way\u00e9tu Moore
\nMoore gives the magical realism treatment to\u00a0Liberia<\/a>‘s founding in a novel that weaves the\u00a0stories of a young\u00a0 West African woman in exile named Gbessa, a former slave escaped from America named June Dey, and Norman Aragon, who’s lineage is the story of colonialism itself. The three are\u00a0drawn out of the diaspora into\u00a0the center of a nascent nation, convening in what will one day be the capital of\u00a0Monrovia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You may also like:\u00a0<\/strong>A guide to Liberia \u2013 West Africa’s least explored state<\/a><\/p>\n

Morocco<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Whitefly<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Abdelilah Hamdouchi
\nFans of the detective genre will immediately be pulled into\u00a0Hamdouchi’s\u00a0Whitefly,\u00a0<\/em>as a murder mystery unfolds in\u00a0Tangier<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Detective Laafrit (meaning crafty) works to solve a case involving several bodies washing up from the Malabata shore.\u00a0<\/em>The novel is hailed as one of the first Arabic noir novels, and its twists and turns immerse the reader in hard-boiled\u00a0Morocco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mozambique<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A\u00a0River Called Time<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Mia Couto
\nAnother work by a Man Booker prize nominee, Couto’s family saga takes place against the backdrop of the civil war that overtook\u00a0Mozambique<\/a>\u00a0from 1977-1992, as a young man named Mariano attempts to unite his family as they convene for his grandfather’s funeral. The family debates how to step into the future, even as they are haunted by their own insistent ancestors, in a compelling dive into\u00a0Mozambican identity and outlook.<\/p>\n

Namibia\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Writing Namibian: Literature in Translation<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>edited by\u00a0Sarala Krishnamurthy & Helen Vale
\nIt’s always a challenge to pick one text alone as representative of a whole country’s literature \u2013 unless, of course, that volume is Krishnamurthy and Vale’s well-curated, broad overview of writers from\u00a0Namibia<\/a>. The pieces included in this anthology range from\u00a0Oshiwambo orature, narratives in German,\u00a0Ju’hoansi and Otjiherero and Afrikaans, writing by female Namibian authors, plays, poetry, sociology, academic criticism, and more.<\/p>\n

You may also like:\u00a0<\/strong>Dune boarding, climbing, surfing and more: finding adventure in Namibia<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nigeria<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The African Trilogy<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Chinua Achebe
\nNo list of African literature would be complete without Chinua Achebe, one of the best known writers from the continent long before the current blossoming of the Nigerian literary community. This trilogy is some of his best work, each of the three novels a meditation on power \u2013 or what Adichie describes in her TED talk as\u00a0nkali,\u00a0<\/em>an Igbo\u00a0“noun that loosely translates to ‘to be greater than another.'”<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Looking for Transwonderland\u00a0<\/a><\/em>by Noo Saro-Wiwa
\nSaro-Wiwa captures the bewildering experience of being between countries and cultures in\u00a0Looking for Transwonderland,\u00a0<\/em>a memoir that brings the reader along from “the exuberant chaos of Lagos” to the “calm beauty of the eastern mountains,” from the networks of\u00a0Nigerian public transportation to far off the beaten path. The author makes for a\u00a0humorous, witty tour guide and puts the reader in the passenger seat next to her, seeing parts of the country not every visitors has the opportunity to experience.<\/p>\n

And After Many Days<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Jowhor Ile
\nThe inciting event of the novel is the disappearance of\u00a0seventeen-year-old Paul Utu, but its clear the characters are searching for more than a young man. A mystery rooted in myth, a personal story that doesn’t shy away from the political, and the story of a community in transition, Jowhor Ile’s\u00a0And After Many Days\u00a0<\/em>captures the town of Port Harcourt,\u00a0Nigeria<\/a>\u00a0in 1995 and far further back in time.<\/p>\n

Sierra Leone<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Memory of Love<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Aminatta Forna
\nAn assortment of characters who span generations and very different backgrounds collide in the buzzy\u00a0capital of Freetown, each with secrets to keep and haunted by the long, painful civil war that lasted from\u00a01991\u20132002. An intimate, humanizing\u00a0look at the manners and identities of Sierra Leoneans, the novel muses about what holds us together even while grappling with the forces, and choices, that can rend at a community or country.<\/p>\n

South Africa<\/strong><\/h4>\n

An Imperfect Blessing<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Nadia Davids
\nA Muslim family of color living in the\u00a0Cape Town<\/a>\u00a0suburbs navigates the tremendous changes their country is experiencing \u2013 in particular, the family’s young daughter\u00a0Alia, who is going through major transformations of her own. Moving from\u00a0Walmer Estate deeper into the capital, from mosques to dive bars, home to history-making moments, Davids’ novel grounds the expansive qualities of the national and adolescent in the specificity of geography.<\/p>\n

Double Negative<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Ivan Vladislavic
\nWhat better way to get an close-focus tour of 1980s and ’90s\u00a0Johannesburg\u00a0<\/a>than following protagonist\u00a0Neville Lister as he embarks on an art project that involves photographing and interviewing the residents of three randomly-selected houses? Though Lister’s work doesn’t go according to plan and he travels from\u00a0South Africa<\/a>\u00a0to London and back over the course of a decade \u2013 and the end of apartheid \u2013 Vladislavic maps not only places, but his characters’ public and private selves.<\/p>\n

Sudan<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Thirteen Months of Sunrise<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 by Rania Mamoun
\nThis series of short stories,\u00a0translated from Mamoun’s original Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette, captures a kaleidoscope of the Sudanese experience, from the quotidian routines of ordinary citizens to heroic rescues to\u00a0a writer-cum-flaneur pacing the back streets of\u00a0Khartoum<\/a>\u00a0in hopes of stumbling across a story.<\/p>\n

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Tanzania<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Gravel Heart<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Abdulrazak Gurnah
\nAs tourists drift into 1970s\u00a0Zanzibar<\/a>, a dreamy young author named Salim struggles with his place in both his family and the larger world.\u00a0Gravel Heart\u00a0<\/em>follows Salim\u00a0as he moves from his home country to London in an attempt to grapple with a flawed relationship with his own father, and his country’s own confusion after the end of British colonization.<\/p>\n

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Uganda<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Kintu<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Jennifer Makumbi
\nA multi-generational epic that reaches far back into Ugandan history to the 18th century\u00a0Buganda Kingdom and boomerangs back to present-day\u00a0Kampala<\/a>, Kintu was an instant hit in both\u00a0Uganda<\/a>\u00a0and Kenya. It continues to rack up accolades like the Windham-Campbell Prize and was named one of Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017.<\/p>\n

As Aaron Bady notes in his introduction, “Makumbi [did] for Ugandans something like what China Achebe novels did for Nigerians in the 1960s.”\u00a0She creates a world “saturated with Ugandan words and places and names” and treats Ugandan’s pre-colonial history as worthy of celebration and literary attention, exploring the country in was thrilling to locals and those outside Africa alike.<\/p>\n

Zambia<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Old Drift<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Namwali Serpell
\nSerpell’s novel starts close to the place most associated with\u00a0Zambia<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the banks of the Zambezi River on its way to spill over Victoria Falls. There, at an Edwardian colonial settlement, a fateful decision sets in motion a century of conflict between three Zambian families from all walks of life. Far from the typical multi-generational epic in the British tradition, however, Serpell’s novel is a genre-bending spectacular that defies expectations.<\/p>\n

You may also like:\u00a0<\/strong>Zambezi come Zambezi go: a journey along southern Africa’s mythical river<\/a><\/p>\n

Zimbabwe<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This Mournable Body<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Tsitsi Dangarembga
\nLong-listed for the 2020 Man Booker Prize, Tsitsi Dangarembga demonstrates why she is one of\u00a0Zimbabwe<\/a>‘s most beloved and visible authors in\u00a0This Mournable Body.\u00a0<\/em>The protagonist is one fans will recognize from one of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s previous novels \u2013 a young woman named\u00a0Tambudzai, who is living in a\u00a0Harare<\/a>\u00a0youth hostel that’s seen better days before accepting a job in her hometown in the country’s burgeoning ecotourism industry. Grappling with the obstacles faced by young people, and women in particular, Tambudzai’s homecoming is far from seamless, but rife with potent observations on human nature and, of course, Zimbabwe itself.<\/p>\n

Out of Darkness, Shining Light<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Petina Gappah
\nIf Dangarembga tackles Zimbabwe’s present, Gappah turns to the country’s past in an inversion of colonial\u00a0Heart of Darkness\u00a0<\/em>narratives.\u00a0Out of Darkness\u00a0<\/em>imagines the stories of the Africans who ensured\u00a0Dr. Livingstone’s body would return to England after he died of malaria in what is now\u00a0Chipundu,\u00a0Zambia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Illuminated by empathy and resiliency, Gappah charts his characters course across “more than one thousand and five hundred miles, from the interior to the western coast, from Chitambo to Muanamuzungu, from Chisalamala to Kumbakumba, from Lambalamfipa to Tabora, until…we reached Bagamoyo, that place of sorrow.”<\/p>\n

Africa<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A Stranger\u2019s Pose<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Emmanuel Iduma and Abraham Oghobase
\nFar from treating\u00a0Africa<\/a>\u00a0as a homogenous “other,” Iduma and Oghobase’s collection of prose and photographs spans over a dozen cities s across the continent, forming a unique travelogue of markets, highways, and towns. As Teju Cole notes in the foreword,\u00a0A Stranger’s Pose\u00a0<\/em>is “the atlas of a borderless world…” and the “quintessence of many journeys” in which\u00a0“immense distance is folded, like a rope, into patience sentences and images [that] glow with the radioactivity of communal memory.”<\/p>\n

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