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Index of African Literature
and Africa-related Books
under review
at
the complete review
This Index lists all the books at the complete review that are, to a significant extent, related to Africa.
They are arranged in the following categories:
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African Literature under Review
- A Basket of Leaves (-), Geoff Wisner - 99 Books that Capture the Spirit of Africa
- Life Turns Man Up and Down (-), ed. Kurt Thometz
- Three Eritrean Plays (B), ed. Jane Plastow
- Yoruba Proverbs (-), ed. Oyekan Owomoyela
- ABANI, Chris (Nigeria): Becoming Abigail (B+)
- AGUALUSA, José Eduardo (Angola): The Book of Chameleons (B+)
- AIDOO, Ama Ata (Ghana):
- Anowa (B)
- The Dilemma of a Ghost (B-)
- Our Sister Killjoy (B+)
- ALAIDY, Ahmed (Egypt): Being Abbas el Abd (B+)
- ALI, Idris (Egypt): Poor (B)
- ALMEIDA, Germano (Cape Verde): The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo (B+)
- ALUKO, T.M. (Nigeria):
- APPANAH, Nathacha (Mauritius): Blue Bay Palace (B)
- ARMAH, Ayi Kwei (Ghana):
- The Healers (A-)
- Two Thousand Seasons (B+)
- See also: Ayi Kwei Armah, Radical Iconoclast (B-), Oge ODEGE
- See also: The Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah (B), Robert FRASER
- al-ASWANY, Alaa (Egypt):
- Chicago (B)
- Friendly Fire (B)
- The Yacoubian Building (B+)
- BÂ, Mariama (Senegal): So Long a Letter (B)
- BANDELE-THOMAS, 'Biyi (Nigeria):
- Burma Boy (US title: The King's Rifle) (B)
- The Man Who Came in from the Back of Beyond (B+)
- The Sympathetic Undertaker (B+)
- BASSIOUNEY, Reem (Egypt):
- The Pistachio Seller (B-)
- Professor Hanaa (B)
- BETI, Mongo (Cameroon): The Story of the Madman (B)
- BEUKES, Lauren (South Africa): Zoo City (B+)
- el-BISATIE, Mohamed (Egypt):
- Drumbeat (B)
- Over the Bridge (B+)
- BREYTENBACH, Breyten (South Africa): Voice Over (A-)
- CARTWRIGHT, Justin (South Africa):
- CHIKWAVA, Brian (Zimbabwe): Harare North (B)
- CHINODYA, Shimmer (Zimbabwe):
- Chairman of Fools (B)
- Strife (B)
- COETZEE, J.M. (South Africa):
- Diary of a Bad Year (A-)
- Disgrace (A-)
- Elizabeth Costello (A-)
- Life & Times of Michael K (B)
- Slow Man (A)
- Summertime (B+)
- COSSERY, Albert (Egypt):
- The Colors of Infamy (B+)
- The Jokers (A-)
- Proud Beggars (B+)
- A Splendid Conspiracy (B+)
- COUTO, Mia (Mozambique): The Tuner of Silences (B)
- DIB, Mohammed (Algeria): L.A. Trip (B)
- DIOME, Fatou (Senegal): The Belly of the Atlantic (B+)
- DJAOUT, Tahar (Algeria): The Last Summer of Reason (B+)
- DONGALA, Emmanuel (Congo):
- DREYER, Tom (South Africa): Equatoria (B)
- ELTAYEB, Tarek (Sudan/Egypt):
- Cities without Palms (B)
- The Palm House (B+)
- EPPEL, John (Zimbabwe): Hatchings (B+)
- FAGUNWA, D.O. (Nigeria): Forest of a Thousand Daemons (B)
- FARGHALI, Ibrahim (Egypt): The Smiles of the Saints (B+)
- [GAPPAH, Petina (Zimbabwe): An Elegy for Easterly]
- GHANEM, Fathy (Egypt): The Man Who Lost His Shadow (A-)
- al-GHITANI, Gamal (Egypt):
- Pyramid Texts (B+)
- Zayni Barakat (B+)
- HABILA, Helon (Nigeria):
- HAILU, Gebreyesus (Ethiopia/Eritrea): The Conscript (B)
- HAKKI, Yahya (Egypt): The Lamp of Umm Hashim (B+)
- HAMDOUCHI, Abdelilah (Morocco): The Final Bet (B)
- HIMMICH, Bensalem (Morocco):
- The Polymath (A-)
- The Theocrat (B)
- HUCHU, Tendai (Zimbabwe): The Hairdresser of Harare (B)
- IBRAHIM, Sonallah (Egypt):
- The Committee (B)
- Zaat (A-)
- IDRIS, Yusuf (Egypt): Tales of Encounter (B)
- ISEGAWA, Moses (Uganda):
- Abyssinian Chronicles (A-)
- Snakepit (B-)
- JABÈS, Edmond (Egypt):
- The Book of Margins (B)
- A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of his Arm a Tiny Book (B)
- See also Lavish Absence Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès by Rosmarie Waldrop (B+)
- KANE, Cheikh Hamidou (Senegal): Ambiguous Adventure (B)
- KHADRA, Yasmina (Algeria):
- The Attack (B)
- Autumn of the Phantoms (B)
- Cousin K (B)
- Dead Man's Share (B+)
- Double Blank (B)
- KHALED, Mai (Egypt): The Magic of Turquoise (B-)
- KHALED TOWFIK, Ahmed (Egypt): Utopia (B)
- KHAMISSI, Khaled Al (Egypt): Taxi (B)
- al-KONI, Ibrahim (Libya): Gold Dust (B+)
- KOUROUMA, Ahmadou (Côte d'Ivoire):
- See the complete review's Ahmadou Kourouma page
- Allah is not obliged (B+)
- Monnew (B+)
- The Suns of Independence (B+)
- Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals (A-)
- KYOMUHENDO, Goretti (Uganda): Waiting (B)
- LAING, Kojo (Ghana): Search Sweet Country (B+)
- MABANCKOU, Alain (Congo):
- African Psycho (B-)
- Broken Glass (B+)
- Memoirs of a Porcupine (B+)
- MADANI, Rachida (Morocco): Tales of a Severed Head (B)
- MAHFOUZ, Naguib (Egypt):
- See the complete review's Naguib Mahfouz page.
- Adrift on the Nile (B)
- Before the Throne (B)
- Cairo Modern (B+)
- The Cairo Trilogy (A-)
- Palace Walk (A-)
- Palace of Desire (B+)
- Sugar Street (B+)
- The Coffeehouse (B)
- The Day the Leader Was Killed (A-)
- The Dreams (B)
- Echoes of an Autobiography (B)
- The Final Hour (B)
- Heart of the Night (B)
- In the Time of Love (B)
- The Journey of Ibn Fattouma (A-)
- Karnak Café (B)
- Khufu's Wisdom (B+)
- Life's Wisdom (-)
- Love in the Rain (B)
- Morning and Evening Talk (A-)
- Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber (B)
- Respected Sir (B+)
- Rhadopis of Nubia (B)
- MAROUANE, Leïla (Algeria): The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris (B)
- MATAR, Hisham (Libya): In the Country of Men (B-)
- MAZRUI, Ali A. (Kenya): The Trial of Christopher Okigbo (B)
- MDA, Zakes (South Africa): Ways of Dying (A-)
- MEYER, Deon (South Africa):
- Blood Safari (B)
- Dead at Daybreak (B+)
- Dead before Dying (B)
- Devil's Peak (B+)
- Heart of the Hunter (B+)
- Seven Days (B+)
- Thirteen Hours (B)
- Trackers (A-)
- MHLONGO, Niq (South Africa):
- After Tears (B)
- Dog Eat Dog (B)
- MIANO, Léonora (Cameroon): Dark Heart of the Night (B)
- MONÉNEMBO, Tierno (Guinea):
- The King of Kahel (B)
- The Oldest Orphan (B)
- MUKOMA wa Ngugi (Kenya): Nairobi Heat (B)
- NAMUKASA, Glaydah (Uganda):
- The Deadly Ambition (B)
- Voice of a Dream (B)
- NDEBELE, Njabulo S. (South Africa): The Cry of Winnie Mandela (B+)
- NGUGI wa Thiong'o (Kenya):
- See the complete review's Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o page
- Matigari (B)
- Wizard of the Crow (A-)
- NYEMBEZI, Sibusiso (South Africa): The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg (B+)
- OGALI, Ogali A. (Nigeria):
- Veronica My Daughter and Other Onitsha Plays and Stories (B-), including:
- Adelabu (B-)
- Caroline the One-Guinea Girl (B-)
- Eddy the Coal-City Boy (C+)
- The Ghost of Patrice Lumumba (C)
- History of Item: Past and Present (C-)
- Long Long Ago (B-)
- Mr. Rabbit is Dead (B-)
- No Heaven for the Priest (D)
- Okeke the Magician (B-)
- Patrice Lumumba (B-)
- Smile Awhile (B)
- Thirty Years for the Director (B-)
- Veronica My Daughter (B-)
- Veronica My Daughter and Other Onitsha Plays and Stories (B-), including:
- OKIGBO, Christopher (Nigeria): Labyrinths (B+)
- ONDJAKI (Angola):
- Good Morning Comrades (B+)
- The Whistler (B)
- OUOLOGUEM, Yambo (Mali):
- Bound to Violence (B+)
- See also: Yambo Ouologuem: Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant (B-)
- PARKES, Nii Ayikwei (Ghana): Tail of the Blue Bird (B)
- p'BITEK, Okot (Uganda): White Teeth (B-)
- PEPETELA (Angola):
- Jaime Bunda, Agente Secreto (B)
- Yaka (B)
- QASIM, Abd al-Hakim (Egypt): Rites of Assent (B)
- RUHENI, Mwangi (Kenya):
- The Diamond Lady (B-)
- The Future Leaders (B)
- SAID, Mekkawi (Egypt): Cairo Swan Song (B)
- SANSAL, Boualem (Algeria): The German Mujahid (UK title: An Unfinished Business) (B)
- SEBHAT Gebre Egziabher (Ethiopia): Seed (B-)
- SEMBÈNE Ousmane (Senegal): Xala (B-)
- SERUMA, Eneriko (Uganda): The Experience (B-)
- SHAFEE, Magdy El (Egypt): Metro (B-)
- SHALABY, Khairy (Egypt):
- SMITH, Alex (South Africa): Four Drunk Beauties (B)
- SONY Labou Tansi (Zaire/Congo):
- SOYINKA, Wole (Nigeria): A Play of Giants (B-)
- TABAN Lo Liyong (Sudan/Uganda):
- al-TAHAWY, Miral (Egypt): Blue Aubergine (B+)
- TAHER, Bahaa (Egypt): As Doha Said (B)
- TAWFIK, M.M. (Egypt):
- TOUMI, Alek Baylee (Algeria): Madah-Sartre (B)
- VAN NIEKERK, Marlene (South Africa): Triomf (B+)
- VERA, Yvonne (Zimbabwe):
- Butterfly Burning (C+)
- The Stone Virgins (C-)
- Under the Tongue (C)
- Without a Name (B-)
- VLADISLAVIĆ, Ivan (South Africa):
- A Labour of Moles (B+)
- The Loss Library (B+)
- WABERI, Abdourahman A. (Djibouti):
- In the United States of Africa (B)
- Passage of Tears (B+)
- Transit (B+)
- al-WARDANI, Mahmoud (Egypt): Heads Ripe for Plucking (B)
- WINTERBACH, Ingrid (South Africa): The Book of Happenstance (B)
- ZAOUI, Amin (Algeria): Banquet of Lies (B+)
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Foreign Fiction and Drama set in Africa under Review
- ABDUL-WALI, Mohammad: They Die Strangers (B+) -- Yemeni émigrés in Ethiopia
- ABISH, Walter: Alphabetical Africa (A-) -- alphabetical fun in Africa
- ATXAGA, Bernardo: Seven Houses in France (B) -- Belgian Congo
- BENNETT, Ronan: The Catastrophist (B) -- Belgian Congo gains independence
- BENOÎT, Pierre: Queen of Atlantis (B) -- Sahara
- EMERSON, Gloria: Loving Graham Greene (B-) -- contemporary Algeria
- FODEN, Giles: The Last King of Scotland (B+) -- Uganda under Amin
- GOYTISOLO, Juan:
- The Garden of Secrets (A-) -- northern Africa
- Makbara (B-) -- northern Africa
- GRAY, Simon: The Rear Column (B) -- the Congo, 1887-8
- HELIODORUS: Ethiopian Story (A-) -- ancient Egypt and Ethiopia
- JAPIN, Arthur: The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi (B+)
- MACDONALD, Hector: The Mind Game (B-) -- Kenya
- MANTEL, Hilary: A Change of Climate (B+) -- southern Africa
- ROLIN, Jean: The Explosion of the Radiator Hose (B) -- (and other mishaps, on a journey from Paris to Kinshasa)
- RUSH, Norman: Mating (B) -- Botswana
- SÁNCHEZ PIÑOL, Albert: Pandora in the Congo (B)
- SHAND, Rosa: The Gravity of Sunlight (B) -- Uganda as Amin takes over
- STOLLER, Paul: Gallery Bundu (B) -- A Story about an African Past in Niger
- STOPPARD, Tom: Night and Day (B) -- African dictatorship
- THEROUX, Paul: The Lower River (B+) -- Malawi
- VILLALOBOS, Juan Pablo: Down the Rabbit Hole (B+) -- searching from the Liberian pygmy hippopotamus !
- ZELLER, Florian: The Fascination of Evil (B+) -- French and Swiss writers in Egypt
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Books about Africa under Review
- ACHEBE, Chinua:
- The Education of a British-Protected Child (B) -- essays
- Home and Exile (B) -- autobiographical and literary
- Morning Yet on Creation Day (B) -- essays
- See also: Conversations with Chinua Achebe (B)
- ADKINS, Lesley and Roy: The Keys of Egypt (B) -- hieroglyphics
- ASONG, Linus: Detective Fiction and the African Scene (-) -- From the 'Whodunit ?' to the 'Whydunit ?'
- CAMUS, Albert: Algerian Chronicles (B)
- CELATI, Gianni: Adventures in Africa (B) -- Mali, Senegal, and Mauritania
- CURREY, James: Africa Writes Back (B+) -- The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature
- DE WITTE, Ludo: The Assassination of Lumumba (-)
- GILL, Peter: Famine and Foreigners (B) -- Ethiopia Since Live Aid
- GOYTISOLO, Juan: Landscapes of War (B) -- contemporary Algeria
- HATZFELD, Jean: Machete Season (UK title: A Time for Machetes) (B+) -- The Killers in Rwanda Speak
- HOCHSCHILD, Adam: King Leopold's Ghost (A-) -- the Belgian Congo
- KAPUSCINSKI, Ryszard: The Shadow of the Sun (A-) -- forty years of reporting
- LARSON, Charles R. The Ordeal of the African Writer (B)
- MOYO, Dambisa: Dead Aid (B-) -- Why Aid is not Working and how there is a Better Way for Africa
- NGUGI wa Thiong'o:
- Decolonising the Mind (B) -- African literature
- Dreams in a Time of War (B+) -- A Childhood Memoir
- OBIECHINA, Emmanuel: An African Popular Literature (B) -- market literature
- SOYINKA, Wole:
- The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (B) -- lectures
- Climate of Fear (B) -- lectures
- Of Africa (B+)
- ŠUKYS, Julija: Silence is Death (B+) - The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout
- TABAN Lo Liyong: Another Last Word (B) -- East African literature and politics
- THEROUX, Paul:
- Dark Star Safari (A-) -- Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
- Sir Vidia's Shadow (A) -- East Africa
- THOMETZ, Kurt (ed.): Life Turns Man Up and Down (-) -- market literature
- WILMSEN, Edwin N.: Journeys with Flies (B) -- anthropolgy in southern Africa
- WRONG, Michela:
- "I Didn't Do It For You" (A-) -- Eritrea
- In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz (B+) -- Mobutu Sese Seko
- It's Our Turn to Eat (B+) -- corruption in Kenya
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