# 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.

## Books

- [Palace Walk](https://africantales.net/books/palace-walk), Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, 1956
- [Things Fall Apart](https://africantales.net/books/things-fall-apart), Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, 1958
- [Ambiguous Adventure](https://africantales.net/books/ambiguous-adventure), Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Senegal, 1961
- [Arrow of God](https://africantales.net/books/arrow-of-god), Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, 1964
- [Season of Migration to the North](https://africantales.net/books/season-of-migration-to-the-north), Tayeb Salih, Sudan, 1966
- [Woman at Point Zero](https://africantales.net/books/woman-at-point-zero), Nawal El Saadawi, Egypt, 1975
- [Our Sister Killjoy](https://africantales.net/books/our-sister-killjoy), Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghana, 1977
- [The Joys of Motherhood](https://africantales.net/books/the-joys-of-motherhood), Buchi Emecheta, Nigeria, 1979
- [So Long a Letter](https://africantales.net/books/so-long-a-letter), Mariama Bâ, Senegal, 1979
- [The Sand Child](https://africantales.net/books/the-sand-child), Tahar Ben Jelloun, Morocco, 1985
- [Maps](https://africantales.net/books/maps), Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, 1986
- [Nervous Conditions](https://africantales.net/books/nervous-conditions), Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe, 1988
- [The Famished Road](https://africantales.net/books/the-famished-road), Ben Okri, Nigeria, 1991
- [Sleepwalking Land](https://africantales.net/books/sleepwalking-land), Mia Couto, Mozambique, 1992
- [Abyssinian Chronicles](https://africantales.net/books/abyssinian-chronicles), Moses Isegawa, Uganda, 1998
- [Mother to Mother](https://africantales.net/books/mother-to-mother), Sindiwe Magona, South Africa, 1998
- [Disgrace](https://africantales.net/books/disgrace), J. M. Coetzee, South Africa, 1999
- [Allah is Not Obliged](https://africantales.net/books/allah-is-not-obliged), Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivory Coast, 2000
- [By the Sea](https://africantales.net/books/by-the-sea), Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 2001
- [The Purple Violet of Oshaantu](https://africantales.net/books/the-purple-violet-of-oshaantu), Neshani Andreas, Namibia, 2001
- [Purple Hibiscus](https://africantales.net/books/purple-hibiscus), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2003
- [In the Country of Men](https://africantales.net/books/in-the-country-of-men), Hisham Matar, Libya, 2006
- [The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears](https://africantales.net/books/the-beautiful-things-that-heaven-bears), Dinaw Mengestu, Ethiopia, 2007
- [By Night the Mountain Burns](https://africantales.net/books/by-night-the-mountain-burns), Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Equatorial Guinea, 2008
- [The Memory of Love](https://africantales.net/books/the-memory-of-love), Aminatta Forna, Sierra Leone, 2010
- [Our Lady of the Nile](https://africantales.net/books/our-lady-of-the-nile), Scholastique Mukasonga, Rwanda, 2012
- [A General Theory of Oblivion](https://africantales.net/books/a-general-theory-of-oblivion), José Eduardo Agualusa, Angola, 2012
- [Americanah](https://africantales.net/books/americanah), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2013
- [The Meursault Investigation](https://africantales.net/books/the-meursault-investigation), Kamel Daoud, Algeria, 2013
- [We Need New Names](https://africantales.net/books/we-need-new-names), NoViolet Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 2013
- [Dust](https://africantales.net/books/dust), Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Kenya, 2014
- [Tram 83](https://africantales.net/books/tram-83), Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2014
- [Lullaby](https://africantales.net/books/lullaby), Leïla Slimani, Morocco, 2016
- [Behold the Dreamers](https://africantales.net/books/behold-the-dreamers), Imbolo Mbue, Cameroon, 2016
- [Stay With Me](https://africantales.net/books/stay-with-me), Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Nigeria, 2017
- [The Promise](https://africantales.net/books/the-promise), Damon Galgut, South Africa, 2021

## See also

- [North African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/north-africa/literary-fiction)
- [West African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/literary-fiction)
- [Central African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/central-africa/literary-fiction)
- [East African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa/literary-fiction)
- [Southern African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/southern-africa/literary-fiction)

Source: https://africantales.net/genres/literary-fiction