African books of the 2000s

Writers include Ahmadou Kourouma, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Neshani Andreas, Emmanuel Dongala, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and others. Set in or written from Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Libya, Malawi, Namibia and others. First published 2000 to 2009.

• Allah is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivory Coast, 2000
• By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 2001
• The Purple Violet of Oshaantu by Neshani Andreas, Namibia, 2001
• Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala, Republic of the Congo, 2002
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2003
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2006
• In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar, Libya, 2006
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leone, 2007
• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu, Ethiopia, 2007
• The Bite of The Mango by Mariatu Kamara, Sierra Leone, 2008
• By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Equatorial Guinea, 2008
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, Malawi, 2009