African memoirs
Writers include Camara Laye, Mohamed Choukri, Wole Soyinka, Nelson Mandela, Ishmael Beah and others. Set in or written from Guinea, Kenya, Libya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria and others. First published 1953 to 2016.
- The Dark Child by Camara Laye, Guinea, 1953
- For Bread Alone by Mohamed Choukri, Morocco, 1973
- Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, 1981
- Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, South Africa, 1994
- A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leone, 2007
- The Bite of The Mango by Mariatu Kamara, Sierra Leone, 2008
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, Malawi, 2009
- One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenya, 2011
- The Return by Hisham Matar, Libya, 2016
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, South Africa, 2016