# Lives, Told Straight

Memoirs of childhood, war, exile and return.

## Books

- [The Dark Child](https://africantales.net/books/the-dark-child), Camara Laye, Guinea, 1953
- [For Bread Alone](https://africantales.net/books/for-bread-alone), Mohamed Choukri, Morocco, 1973
- [Aké: The Years of Childhood](https://africantales.net/books/ake-the-years-of-childhood), Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, 1981
- [Long Walk to Freedom](https://africantales.net/books/long-walk-to-freedom), Nelson Mandela, South Africa, 1994
- [A Long Way Gone](https://africantales.net/books/a-long-way-gone), Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leone, 2007
- [The Bite of The Mango](https://africantales.net/books/the-bite-of-the-mango), Mariatu Kamara, Sierra Leone, 2008
- [The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind](https://africantales.net/books/the-boy-who-harnessed-the-wind), William Kamkwamba, Malawi, 2009
- [One Day I Will Write About This Place](https://africantales.net/books/one-day-i-will-write-about-this-place), Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenya, 2011
- [The Return](https://africantales.net/books/the-return), Hisham Matar, Libya, 2016
- [Born a Crime](https://africantales.net/books/born-a-crime), Trevor Noah, South Africa, 2016

Source: https://africantales.net/collections/lives-told-straight