African literary fiction
Writers include Naguib Mahfouz, Chinua Achebe, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Tayeb Salih, Nawal El Saadawi and others. Set in or written from Algeria, Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea and others. First published 1956 to 2021.
- Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, 1956
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, 1958
- Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Senegal, 1961
- Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, 1964
- Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, Sudan, 1966
- Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, Egypt, 1975
- Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghana, 1977
- The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta, Nigeria, 1979
- So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, Senegal, 1979
- The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Morocco, 1985
- Maps by Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, 1986
- Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe, 1988
- The Famished Road by Ben Okri, Nigeria, 1991
- Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto, Mozambique, 1992
- Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa, Uganda, 1998
- Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona, South Africa, 1998
- Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee, South Africa, 1999
- 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
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2003
- In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar, Libya, 2006
- The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu, Ethiopia, 2007
- By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Equatorial Guinea, 2008
- The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna, Sierra Leone, 2010
- Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga, Rwanda, 2012
- A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa, Angola, 2012
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2013
- The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, Algeria, 2013
- We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 2013
- Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Kenya, 2014
- Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2014
- Lullaby by Leïla Slimani, Morocco, 2016
- Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue, Cameroon, 2016
- Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Nigeria, 2017
- The Promise by Damon Galgut, South Africa, 2021