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21 Best African novels

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The Rules

Chinua Achebe: Arrow of God
Olympe Bhêly-Quenum: Un piège sans fin (Snares without End)
Rachid Boudjedra: الزقاق معركة (La Prise de Gibraltar) [The Capture of Gibraltar]
Syl Cheney-Coker: The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar
Mia Couto: Terra Sonámbula (Sleepwalking Land)
Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Condition
Mohammed Dib: Cours sur la rive sauvage [A Walk on the Wild Side]
Tahar Djaout: L’invention du désert [The Invention of the Desert]
Gilbert Gatore: Le passé devant soi [The Past In Front of You]
Moses Isegawa: Abessijnse kronieken (Abyssinian Chronicles)
Ahmadou Kourouma: En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages (Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals)
Camara Laye: Le regard du roi (The Radiance of the King)
Naguib Mahfouz: Cairo Trilogy
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Caitaani Mutharaba-ini (Devil on the Cross)
Ben Okri: The Famished Road
Ferdinand Oyono: Vieux nègre et la médaille (The Old Man and the Medal)
Tayeb Salih: بندر شاه مريود (Bandarshah)
Ousmane Sembène: Les Bouts de bois de Dieu (God’s Bits of Wood)
Ahdaf Soueif: The Map of Love
Henrique Teixeira de Sousa: Ilhéu de Contenda [Squabbling Islander]
Kateb Yacine: Nedjma (Nedjma)

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