BOOK REVIEWS

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart

Achebe, Chinua – Arrow of God

Achebe, Chinua – No Longer at Ease

Achebe, Chinua – A Man of the People

Achebe, Chinua – Anthills of the Savanna

Achebe, Chinua & Innes, C.L (Editors) – African Short Stories

Achebe, Chinua & Innes, C.L (Editors) – Contemporary African Short Stories

Achebe, Chinua – The Trouble with Nigeria

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi – Half of a Yellow Sun

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi – Purple Hibiscus

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi – The Thing Around Your Neck

Adimora-Ezeigbo, Akachi – Dancing Masks

Armah, Ayi Kwei – The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

Armah, Ayi Kwei – Fragments

Armah, Ayi Kwei – The Healers

Armah, Ayi Kwei – Two Thousand Seasons

Attah, Ayesha Harruna – Harmattan Rain

Aidoo, Ama Ata – Changes

Aidoo, Ama Ata – Anowa

Aidoo, Ama Ata (Editor) – African Love Stories

Aidoo, Ama Ata – The Girl Who Can & Other Stories

Amadi, Elechi – The Concubine

Agary, Kaine – Yellow-Yellow

Ankomah – Kwakye, Kwabena – The Deliverer

Ahun, A. Mary Dr. – The Adventures of Kobby Badu-Smith

Asare, Meshack – The Canoe’s Story

Ayodele, Olofintuade – Eno’s Story

Adeniran, Sade – Imagine This

B

Baingana, Doreen – Tropical Fish

Bedzrah, Sylvanus – The Bloody Ingrate

Brew-hammond, Nana Ekua – Powder Necklace

Badoe, Yaba – True Murder

Baitie, Elizabeth-Irene – The Twelfth Heart

Bradley, Jerry – Crownfeathers and Effigies

C

Coetzee, J.M – Disgrace

Coetzee, J.M – Summertime

Coetzee, J.M – In the Heart of the Country

Coetzee, J.M – Diary of a Bad Year

Coetzee, J.M – Life and Times of Michael K

Coetzee, J.M – Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life

Coetzee, J.M – Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life

Coetzee, J.M – Foe

Carry, Peter – Oscar and Lucinda

Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness

Chinodya, Shimmer – Can We Talk and Other Stories

Chinodya, Shimmer – Harvest of Thorns

Chingono, Julius & Eppel John – Together

D

Darmani, Lawrence – Grief Child

Darmani, Lawrence – Ayisha

Darko, Amma – Beyond the Horizon

Darko, Amma – The Housemaid

Desai, Kiran – The Inheritance of Loss

Dangarembga, Tsitsi – Nervous Conditions

Damoah, Nana Awere – Excursions in My Mind

E

Emecheta, Buchi – The Joys of Motherhood

Emecheta, Buchi – Head Above Water

Emecheta, Buchi – Second-Class Citizen

F

G

Gordimer, Nadine – July’s People

Goka, Ruby Yayra – The Mystery of the Haunted House

H

Hyland, M.J – Carry Me Down

Hirson, Denis & Trump Martin (Editors) – South African Short Stories

Haddon, Mark – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Hove, Chenjerai – Bones

Habila, Helon – Waiting for an Angel

I

Ibe, Adimchinma – Treachery in the Yard

J

K

Kwakye, Benjamin – The Clothes of Nakedness

Kwakye, Benjamin – The Sun by Night

Kwakye, Benjamin – The Other Crucifix

Kwakye, Benjamin – Eyes of the Slain Woman

L

Lahiri, Jhumpa – The Namesake

Lahiri, Jhumpa – Interpreter of Maladies

Laye, Camara – The African Child

Leonard, Fiona – The Chicken Thief

M

McCourt, Frank – Teacher Man

Martel, Yann – Life of Pi

Momple Lilia – Neighbours: The Story of a Murder

Mills-Heward, Marilyn – Cloth Girl

Mphahlele, Es’kia – Down 2nd Avenue

N

Nyantakyi, Akosomo – Ancestral Sacrifice

Na’ima B Robert – Far From Home

Nwaubani, Tricia Adaobi – I Do Not Come to You by Chance

O

Ojo, Adura – Life is a Woman Breaking Eggs

Okri, Ben – The Famished Road

Okri, Ben – Infinite Riches

Oyono, Ferdinand – The Houseboy

Ondaatje Michael – The English Patient

P

p’Bitek, Okot – Song of Lawino

p’Bitek, Okot – Song of Ocol

Paris Review – The Paris Review Interviews Vol. I

Paris Review – The Paris Review Interviews Vol. II

Q

R

Rotimi, Ola – The God’s Are Not to Blame

Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things

Rushdie, Salman – Midnight’s Children

Rheam, Bryony – This September Sun

S

Smith, Zadie – On Beauty

Saro-Wiwa, Ken – A Forest of Flowers

Swift, Graham – Last Orders

T

Thiongo’o, Ngugi wa – A Grain of Wheat

Thiongo’o, Ngugi wa – Weep Not, Child

Thiong’o, Ngugi wa – Matigari

U

V

Vera, Yvonne (Editor) – Opening Spaces

Van Wyk, Chris – Shirley, Goodness & Mercy

W

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11 Responses to BOOK REVIEWS

  1. Torgbui Michael says:

    A lot of books you’ve really digested. Great efforts there. Keep it up and guess with that sort of information, you most definitely have ideas and info on almost every subject>

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  2. Impressive list. I’ve read some of these books ages ago. I may have to read them again for better appreciation so I can review them.

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  3. books…..books….books…..they make my world a brighter place.its been a while since i read some of them while i’ve never heard of others but all the same i was smiling while goin through the list.purple hibiscus and half of a yellow sun excites me the most.

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  4. saaaas says:

    no Teju Cole?

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  5. priscilla sevor says:

    the book really touched mawuko girls of ghana

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  6. Debra Beilke says:

    I just found your blog. It looks like a great resource! ( I occasionally teach a course on African literature.)

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  7. A Gomez says:

    No Bessie Head? Yet?

    Please, try Tales of Tenderness and Power, AWS, 1989

    Really sad for Auntie Bessie that she died before 1994; may she rest in peace, as she smiles down on the result of her life’s work and struggles.

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  8. Great. Have you read Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem ( the longest epic poem in English ) SAVITRI ?
    I translated it into TELUGU.
    I thought we can explore the theme from African and Indian perspectives!

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