North Africa
• Algeria – The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Egypt – Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
• Libya – In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
• Morocco – The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
• Sudan – Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
• Tunisia – The Stone of Laughter by Hoda Barakat
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West Africa
• Benin – Slave Coast by Thorkild Hansen (narrative nonfiction)
• Burkina Faso – The Abandoned Baobab by Ken Bugul
• Cabo Verde – Chiquinho by Baltasar Lopes
• Côte d’Ivoire – Allah Is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma
• Gambia – Roots by Alex Haley
• Ghana – Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Guinea – The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye
• Guinea-Bissau – The Last Trumpet by Odete Semedo
• Liberia – The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper (memoir)
• Mali – Segu by Maryse Condé
• Mauritania – The Desert and the Drum by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk
• Niger – Sarraounia by Abdoulaye Mamani
• Nigeria – Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Senegal – So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
• Sierra Leone – A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
• Togo – The Shadow of Imana by Véronique Tadjo
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Central Africa
• Cameroon – The Old Man and the Medal by Ferdinand Oyono
• Central African Republic – The Silence of the Forest by Étienne Goyémidé
• Chad – Chadian Tale by Joseph Brahim Seid
• Republic of the Congo – Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou
• Democratic Republic of the Congo – King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild (narrative nonfiction)
• Equatorial Guinea – The Upright Man by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
• Gabon – The African Child by Camara Laye (partially set in Gabon)
• São Tomé and Príncipe – The Last Plantation by Albertino Bragança
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East Africa
• Burundi – Small Country by Gaël Faye
• Comoros – The Comorian Trilogy by Ali Zamir
• Djibouti – Transit by Abdourahman A. Waberi
• Eritrea – Refugee by Oltas Abrha
• Ethiopia – Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• Kenya – The River and the Source by Margaret Ogola
• Rwanda – The Shadow of Imana by Véronique Tadjo
• Seychelles – The Memory of Her Kiss by Glynn Burridge
• Somalia – Maps by Nuruddin Farah
• South Sudan – What Is the What by Dave Eggers
• Tanzania – Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
• Uganda – Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
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Southern Africa
• Angola – A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
• Botswana – The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• Eswatini – The Kingdom of Eswatini by Garth Benneyworth (narrative)
• Lesotho – Chaka by Thomas Mofolo
• Malawi – Smouldering Charcoal by Tiyambe Zeleza
• Mauritius – The Prospector by J.M.G. Le Clézio
• Mozambique – Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto
• Namibia – The Sheltering Desert by Henno Martin
• South Africa – Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
• Zambia – Before Dawn by Andreya Masiye
• Zimbabwe – Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
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