African literature

Book Reviews

• Chinua Achebe: Arrow of God*
  - an Ibo priest and his village face change
• Breyten Breytenbach: All One Horse*
  - dream fables and surreal paintings
• Tahar ben Jelloun: This Blinding Absence of Light*
  - surviving incarceration in a secret Moroccan prison
• Ahmadou Kourouma: Allah is Not Obliged
  - the story of a child soldier in West Africa
• Ahmadou Kourouma: The Suns of Independence*
  - a tale of Malinke tradition in an independent Africa
• Ahmadou Kourouma: Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote**
  - the life story of an African dictator
• Scholastique Mukasonga: Our Lady of the Nile
  - racial tensions mount in a Rwandan girls' school
• Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Matigari
  - after independence, seeking truth and justice
• Chuma Nwokolo Jr: Diaries of a Dead African
  - a black comedy of reputation in small-town Nigeria
• Wole Soyinka: Aké*
  - an enchanting childhood in a West Nigerian town

See also: Africa | Arabic literature | world literature