Zimbabwe International Book Fair's "Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century"

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incomplete – children’s books, non-english books, and nonfiction books have not yet been added.

  1. 1.
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    al-Mawt `ala al-asfalt
    by `Abd al-Rahman Abnudi

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  2. 2.
    Arrow of God
    by Chinua Achebe

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  3. 3.
    Things Fall Apart (Modern Critical Interpretations Series)
    by Chinua Achebe

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    Anowa
    by Ama Ata Aidoo

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    O testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo
    by Germano Almeida

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  6. 6.
    The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
    by Ayi Kwei Armah

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  7. 7.
    L'Etrange destin de Wangrin
    by Amadou Hampaté Bâ

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  8. 8.
    Une Si Longue Lettre
    by Mariama Ba

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  9. 9.
    L'Enfant de sable - La Nuit sacrée
    by Tahar Ben Jelloun

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    Le Pauvre Christ De Bomba (B.E. Series : No 27)
    by Mongo Beti

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  11. 11.
    A Dry White Season
    by Andre Brink

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  12. 13.
    Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel
    by J. M. Coetzee

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  13. 14.
    Nervous Conditions
    by Tsitsi Dangarembga

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  14. 15.
    Joys of Motherhood
    by Buchi Emecheta

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    MAPS ([Pantheon modern writers])
    by Farah Nuruddin

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  16. 17.
    Blood Knot and Other Plays
    by Athol Fugard

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    Burgher's Daughter
    by Nadine Gordimer

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  18. 19.
    A Question of Power (African Writers)
    by Bessie Head

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  19. 20.
    Bones
    by Chenjerai Hove

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  21. 23.
    The House of Hunger (African Writers)
    by Dambudzo Marechera

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  22. 24.
    Indaba My Children African Tribal Histor
    by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

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  23. 25.
    A Grain of Wheat (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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  24. 26.
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    Labyrinths / Path of Thunder (African Poets)
    by Christopher Okigbo

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  25. 27.
    The Famished Road
    by Ben Okri

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  26. 28.
    Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol (African Writers Series)
    by Okot P'Bitek

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  27. 29.
    Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition
    by Nawal El Saadawi

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  28. 30.
    Season of Migration to the North: A Novel
    by Al-Tayyib Salih

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  29. 31.
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    Third World Express
    by Mongane Serote

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  30. 32.
    Death and the King's Horsemen
    by by Wole Soyinka

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  31. 33.
    The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    by Amos Tutuola

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    Amal'ezulu: Zulu Poems (Black Writers Series)
    by B. Wallet Vilakazi

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  33. 35.
    Butterfly Burning: A Novel
    by Yvonne Vera

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  34. 38.
    In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
    by Kwame Anthony Appiah

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  35. 39.
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    Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings
    by Amilcar Cabral

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  36. 40.
    Kiswahili. Past, Present and Future Horizons
    by Rocha Chimera

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Created by flickerfish on May 19, 2008.
 

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flickerfish
San Francisco

Feel free to make changes to this list. — 20 weeks ago

As of this moment, there are no children’s books selections on this list, although there are four on the original list. I have also stopped adding foreign language books to this list, because I am probably the only person who is going to use this and I’m probably not going to be reading anything in French for example and therefore I might as well conserve my energy. I may add children’s books and foreign language books at a later date.

I also have not yet finished putting on non-fiction books.

If you want to see all the book selections made by the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, the full list is linked at the top of the page (as ‘list source’).