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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
- Life Turns Man Up and Down (-), ed. Kurt Thometz
- 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):
- 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): The Yacoubian Building (B+)
- BANDELE-THOMAS, 'Biyi (Nigeria):
- CARTWRIGHT, Justin (South Africa):
- 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)
- 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):
- FARGHALI, Ibrahim (Egypt): The Smiles of the Saints (B+)
- al-GHITANI, Gamal (Egypt):
- Pyramid Texts (B+)
- Zayni Barakat (B+)
- HAKKI, Yahya (Egypt): The Lamp of Umm Hashim (B+)
- HIMMICH, Bensalem (Egypt):
- The Polymath (A-)
- The Theocrat (B)
- IBRAHIM, Sonallah (Egypt):
- The Committee (B)
- Zaat (A-)
- ISEGAWA, Moses (Uganda):
- Abyssinian Chronicles (A-)
- Snakepit (B-)
- JABÈS, Edmond (Egypt):
- The Book of Margins (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)
- Double Blank (B)
- KHAMISSI, Khaled Al (Egypt): Taxi (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)
- MABANCKOU, Alain (Congo): African Psycho (B-)
- MAHFOUZ, Naguib (Egypt):
- Adrift on the Nile (B)
- The Cairo Trilogy (A-)
- Palace Walk (A-)
- Palace of Desire (B+)
- Sugar Street (B+)
- The Day the Leader Was Killed (A-)
- The Dreams (B)
- Echoes of an Autobiography (B)
- The Journey of Ibn Fattouma (A-)
- Karnak Café (B)
- Khufu's Wisdom (B+)
- Life's Wisdom (-)
- Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber (B)
- Respected Sir (B+)
- Rhadopis of Nubia (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:
- Dead at Daybreak (B+)
- Dead before Dying (B)
- Heart of the Hunter (B+)
- MONÉNEMBO, Tierno (Guinea): The Oldest Orphan (B)
- NAMUKASA, Glaydah (Uganda):
- The Deadly Ambition (B)
- Voice of a Dream (B)
- NGUGI wa Thiong'o (Kenya): 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-)
- 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)
- SERUMA, Eneriko (Uganda): The Experience (B-)
- SHALABY, Khairy (Egypt): The Lodging House (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+)
- 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-)
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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
- 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
- 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
- ZELLER, Florian: The Fascination of Evil (B+) -- French and Swiss writers in Egypt
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Books about Africa under Review
- ACHEBE, Chinua:
- 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
- CELATI, Gianni: Adventures in Africa (B) -- Mali, Senegal, and Mauritania
- DE WITTE, Ludo: The Assassination of Lumumba (-)
- 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)
- NGUGI wa Thiong'o: Decolonising the Mind (B) -- African literature
- 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
- 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
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