A native minister seeks his son in Johannesburg, while a white crusader for justice is murdered in his home.
The Ibo leader Okonkwo murders his ward, is exiled for seven years, and returns to find his village changed and corrupted by its contact with white men.
Precious Ramotswe sells the cattle she inherits from her father, moves to Gaborone, and becomes Botswana’s first female private investigator.
The middle-aged title character travels to Africa to answer his inner voice that cries out I want, I want. He promptly blows up a cistern full of frogs.
A Baptist missionary, his wife, and four daughters travel to the Belgian Congo to spread their culture and religion to Africa. Instead, Africa's culture spreads to them.
Linnet Doyle is stalked on her honeymoon cruise by Jacqueline de Bellefort, her former best friend and husband’s ex-lover. Linnet asks Hercule Poirot to intercede.
Salim sets up shop on what is most likely the Congo in an unnamed post-colonial African country in this 1979 novel by a Trinidadian Nobelist.
The Biafran war is seen through the eyes of the houseboy Ugwu, his master’s girlfriend Olanna, and Olanna’s sister’s lover Richard.
This 1885 novel follows Allan Quartermain as he searches inner Africa for a missing man, lost on a quest to discover the title location.
A white South African family flees to the home village of their servant, the title character, to escape violence in Johannesburg.
This series follows the story of the 'Abd Al-Jawad family. Key locations include the Al-Hussein Mosque and Sugar Street.
In this play, Baroka (one title character) and Lakunle fight over the right to marry Sidi (the other title character). The author is the first African to win a Literature Nobel.
A Danish baroness and plantation owner in colonial Kenya has a love affair with a big-game hunter. The film adaptation won the 1986 Oscar for Best Picture.
Nairobi-based diplomat Justin Quayle learns that his wife Tessa was murdered. His investigation leads him down a trail of deceit, corruption, and intrigue.
The author, a descendent of Thembu royalty, describes life under apartheid and his long prison term.
Charles Marlow journeys up the Congo to the trading station of a mysterious Mr. Kurtz.
After the narrator’s plane crashes in the Sahara, he meets a young boy who asks him to draw a sheep. The book has sold 140 million copies since its publication in 1943.
As Harry is dying of gangrene, he reflects on his life. There’s plenty of whiskey, bickering, and very short sentences.
Disease, both literal and allegorical, sweeps the town of Oran, Algeria, in the 1940s.
The fictional Dr. Nicholas Garrigan recalls his life as the personal physician to Idi Amin. Forest Whitaker won an Oscar for his portrayal of Amin in the 2007 movie adaptation.
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