# Read Africa, country by country.

69 writers from 34 countries, and growing.

## Books

- [A General Theory of Oblivion](https://africantales.net/books/a-general-theory-of-oblivion), José Eduardo Agualusa, Angola, 2012
- [A Grain of Wheat](https://africantales.net/books/a-grain-of-wheat), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya, 1967
- [A Long Way Gone](https://africantales.net/books/a-long-way-gone), Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leone, 2007
- [Abyssinian Chronicles](https://africantales.net/books/abyssinian-chronicles), Moses Isegawa, Uganda, 1998
- [Afterlives](https://africantales.net/books/afterlives), Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 2020
- [Aké: The Years of Childhood](https://africantales.net/books/ake-the-years-of-childhood), Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, 1981
- [Allah is Not Obliged](https://africantales.net/books/allah-is-not-obliged), Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivory Coast, 2000
- [Ambiguous Adventure](https://africantales.net/books/ambiguous-adventure), Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Senegal, 1961
- [Americanah](https://africantales.net/books/americanah), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2013
- [Arrow of God](https://africantales.net/books/arrow-of-god), Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, 1964
- [At Night All Blood Is Black](https://africantales.net/books/at-night-all-blood-is-black), David Diop, Senegal, 2018
- [Behold the Dreamers](https://africantales.net/books/behold-the-dreamers), Imbolo Mbue, Cameroon, 2016
- [Beneath the Lion's Gaze](https://africantales.net/books/beneath-the-lion-s-gaze), Maaza Mengiste, Ethiopia, 2010
- [Born a Crime](https://africantales.net/books/born-a-crime), Trevor Noah, South Africa, 2016
- [By Night the Mountain Burns](https://africantales.net/books/by-night-the-mountain-burns), Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Equatorial Guinea, 2008
- [By the Sea](https://africantales.net/books/by-the-sea), Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 2001
- [Caught in The Storm](https://africantales.net/books/caught-in-the-storm), Seydou Badian, Mali, 1957
- [Chaka](https://africantales.net/books/chaka), Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho, 1925
- [Cry, the Beloved Country](https://africantales.net/books/cry-the-beloved-country), Alan Paton, South Africa, 1948
- [Death and the King's Horseman](https://africantales.net/books/death-and-the-king-s-horseman), Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, 1975
- [Disgrace](https://africantales.net/books/disgrace), J. M. Coetzee, South Africa, 1999
- [Dust](https://africantales.net/books/dust), Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Kenya, 2014
- [For Bread Alone](https://africantales.net/books/for-bread-alone), Mohamed Choukri, Morocco, 1973
- [From a Crooked Rib](https://africantales.net/books/from-a-crooked-rib), Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, 1970

## See also

- [North African literature](https://africantales.net/regions/north-africa)
- [West African literature](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa)
- [Central African literature](https://africantales.net/regions/central-africa)
- [East African literature](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa)
- [Southern African literature](https://africantales.net/regions/southern-africa)
- [African classics](https://africantales.net/genres/classic)
- [North African classics](https://africantales.net/regions/north-africa/classic)
- [West African classics](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/classic)
- [Central African classics](https://africantales.net/regions/central-africa/classic)
- [East African classics](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa/classic)
- [Southern African classics](https://africantales.net/regions/southern-africa/classic)
- [African plays](https://africantales.net/genres/drama)
- [West African plays](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/drama)
- [African historical fiction](https://africantales.net/genres/historical-fiction)
- [West African historical fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/historical-fiction)
- [East African historical fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa/historical-fiction)
- [African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/genres/literary-fiction)
- [North African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/north-africa/literary-fiction)
- [West African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/literary-fiction)
- [Central African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/central-africa/literary-fiction)
- [East African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa/literary-fiction)
- [Southern African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/southern-africa/literary-fiction)
- [African memoirs](https://africantales.net/genres/memoir)
- [West African memoirs](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/memoir)
- [African political fiction](https://africantales.net/genres/political-fiction)
- [West African political fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/political-fiction)
- [African war fiction](https://africantales.net/genres/war-fiction)
- [West African war fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/war-fiction)
- [East African war fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa/war-fiction)
- [African books of the 1950s](https://africantales.net/decades/1950s)
- [African books of the 1960s](https://africantales.net/decades/1960s)
- [African books of the 1970s](https://africantales.net/decades/1970s)
- [African books of the 1980s](https://africantales.net/decades/1980s)
- [African books of the 1990s](https://africantales.net/decades/1990s)
- [African books of the 2000s](https://africantales.net/decades/2000s)
- [African books of the 2010s](https://africantales.net/decades/2010s)

Source: https://africantales.net/