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Twelve books that open the door: the classics most readers of African literature meet first.
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, 1958
- So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, Senegal, 1979
- Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, Sudan, 1966
- Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya, 1964
- Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe, 1988
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2006
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, South Africa, 1948
- The Dark Child by Camara Laye, Guinea, 1953
- God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 1960
- Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, 1956
- Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Senegal, 1961
- Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono, Cameroon, 1956