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20 items

• Cursed Daughters

  a Novel

  Braithwaite, Oyinkan

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• Ghostroots

  Stories

  Aguda, 'Pemi

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• Someone Like Us

  Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978-

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• And So I Roar

  a Novel

  Dare, Abi

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• Somadina

  Emezi, Akwaeke

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• River Spirit

  a Novel

  Aboulela, Leila, 1964-

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• An African History of Africa

  From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

  Badawi, Zeinab, 1959-

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• Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

  Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-2025

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• Necessary Fiction

  Osunde, Eloghosa

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• This Kind of Trouble

  a Novel

  Eze, Tochi

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• Last Seen in Lapaz

  Quartey, Kwei

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• Call and Response

  Stories

  Moeng, Gothataone

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• The Race to Be Myself

  a Memoir

  Semenya, Caster, 1991-

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• Gather Me

  a Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

  Edim, Glory, 1982-

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• The Creation of Half-Broken People

  Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

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• The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa

  Buoro, Stephen

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• Serwa Boateng's Guide to Witchcraft and Mayhem

  Brown, Roseanne A.

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• The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura

  A Novel

  Monénembo, Tierno

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• The Tiny Things Are Heavier

  a Novel

  Okonkwo, Esther Ifesinachi

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• Bright Red Fruit

  Elhillo, Safia

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