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

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

(found at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/Afbks.html#list)
5.
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 al-Mawt `ala al-asfalt
by `Abd al-Rahman Abnudi
  
6. Arrow of God
by Chinua Achebe
  
7. Things Fall Apart (Modern Critical Interpretations Series)
by Chinua Achebe
  
8.
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 Anowa
by Ama Ata Aidoo
  
9.
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 O testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo
by Germano Almeida
  
10. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
by Ayi Kwei Armah
  
11. L'Etrange destin de Wangrin
by Amadou Hampaté Bâ
  
12. Une Si Longue Lettre
by Mariama Ba
  
13. L'Enfant de sable - La Nuit sacrée
by Tahar Ben Jelloun
  
14.
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 Le Pauvre Christ De Bomba (B.E. Series : No 27)
by Mongo Beti
  
15. A Dry White Season
by Andre Brink
  
16. Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar: A Novel of Magical Vision (African Writers Series)
by Syl Cheney-Coker
  
17. Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel
by J. M. Coetzee
  
18. Nervous Conditions
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
  
19. Joys of Motherhood
by Buchi Emecheta
  
20.
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 MAPS ([Pantheon modern writers])
by Farah Nuruddin
  
21. Blood Knot and Other Plays
by Athol Fugard
  
22.
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 Burgher's Daughter
by Nadine Gordimer
  
23. A Question of Power (African Writers)
by Bessie Head
  
24. Bones
by Chenjerai Hove
  
25. Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night (Interlink World Fiction)
by Sindiwe Magona
  
26. The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Naguib Mahfouz
  
27. The House of Hunger (African Writers)
by Dambudzo Marechera
  
28. Indaba My Children African Tribal Histor
by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
  
29. A Grain of Wheat (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  
30.
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 Labyrinths / Path of Thunder (African Poets)
by Christopher Okigbo
  
31. The Famished Road
by Ben Okri
  
32. Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol (African Writers Series)
by Okot P'Bitek
  
33. Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition
by Nawal El Saadawi
  
34. Season of Migration to the North: A Novel
by Al-Tayyib Salih
  
35.
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 Third World Express
by Mongane Serote
  
36.
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 Death and the King's Horsemen
by by Wole Soyinka
  
37. The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
by Amos Tutuola
  
38.
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 Amal'ezulu: Zulu Poems (Black Writers Series)
by B. Wallet Vilakazi
  
39. Butterfly Burning: A Novel
by Yvonne Vera
  
40.
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 Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment. Volume 2
by Samir Amin
  
41. Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society
by Ifi Amadiume
  
42. In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
  
43.
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 Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings
by Amilcar Cabral
  
44. Kiswahili. Past, Present and Future Horizons
by Rocha Chimera
  
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