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
  2. 2.
    Arrow of God
    by Chinua Achebe
  3. 3.
  4. 4.
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    Anowa
    by Ama Ata Aidoo
  5. 5.
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    O testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo
    by Germano Almeida
  6. 6.
    The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
    by Ayi Kwei Armah
  7. 7.
    L'Etrange destin de Wangrin
    by Amadou Hampaté Bâ
  8. 8.
    Une Si Longue Lettre
    by Mariama Ba
  9. 9.
    L'Enfant de sable - La Nuit sacrée
    by Tahar Ben Jelloun
  10. 10.
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    Le Pauvre Christ De Bomba (B.E. Series : No 27)
    by Mongo Beti
  11. 11.
    A Dry White Season
    by Andre Brink
  13. 13.
    Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel
    by J. M. Coetzee
  14. 14.
    Nervous Conditions [Import]
    by Tsitsi Dangarembga
  15. 15.
    The Joys of Motherhood
    by Buchi Emecheta
  16. 16.
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    MAPS ([Pantheon modern writers])
    by Farah Nuruddin
  17. 17.
    Blood Knot and Other Plays
    by Athol Fugard
  18. 18.
    Burgher's Daughter
    by Nadine Gordimer
  19. 19.
    A Question of Power
    by Bessie Head
  20. 20.
    Bones
    by Chenjerai Hove
  21. 21.
  23. 23.
    The House of Hunger (African Writers)
    by Dambudzo Marechera
  24. 24.
    Indaba My Children African Tribal Histor
    by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
  25. 25.
    A Grain of Wheat (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ngugi Wa Thiongo
  26. 26.
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    Labyrinths / Path of Thunder (African Poets)
    by Christopher Okigbo
  27. 27.
    The Famished Road
    by Ben Okri
  28. 28.
    Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol (African Writers Series)
    by Okot P'Bitek
  29. 29.
    Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition
    by Nawal El Saadawi
  30. 30.
    Season of Migration to the North: A Novel
    by Al-Tayyib Salih; Tayeb Salih
  31. 31.
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    Third World Express
    by Mongane Serote
  32. 32.
    Death and the King's Horsemen
    by by Wole Soyinka
  33. 33.
    The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    by Amos Tutuola
  34. 34.
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    Amal'Ezulu: Zulu Poems (Black Writers) (Zulu Edition)
    by B. Wallet Vilakazi
  35. 35.
    Butterfly Burning: A Novel
    by Yvonne Vera
  38. 38.
    In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
    by Kwame Anthony Appiah
  39. 39.
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    Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings
    by Amilcar Cabral
  40. 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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frbrown

Something less ambitious — 2 years ago

100 books too much?

Here are just the top 12:

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/69817

Jan 09, 09:12AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

viatrix1

finishing, updates, translations — 2 years ago

I’d like to help finish the list, and maybe update some of the editions to newer editions with cover pictures, if that’s ok. I’ve got a list with ISBNs. A lot of the foreign language ones have been translated into English: would you mind if I added the translations where available, and also changed some of the foreign language ones above to translated editions?

Jul 20, 07:23PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

flickerfish

Feel free to make changes to this list. — 3 years 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’).

May 19, 04:30PM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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