Lives, Told Straight

Memoirs of childhood, war, exile and return.

• The Dark Child by Camara Laye, Guinea, 1953
• For Bread Alone by Mohamed Choukri, Morocco, 1973
• Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, 1981
• Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, South Africa, 1994
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leone, 2007
• The Bite of The Mango by Mariatu Kamara, Sierra Leone, 2008
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, Malawi, 2009
• One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenya, 2011
• The Return by Hisham Matar, Libya, 2016
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, South Africa, 2016