Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

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The list of Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century was compiled for the Zimbabwe International Book Fair in 2002. The list honors books of creative writing, scholarship and non-fiction, and

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Todo se desmorona (1958) por Chinua Achebe
creative writingTop 12
Mi carta más larga (1981) por Mariama Bâ
creative writingTop 12
Tierra sonámbula (1992) por Mia Couto
creative writingTop 12
Condiciones nerviosas (1988) por Tsitsi Dangarembga
creative writingTop 12
El amor, la fantasía (1985) por Assia Djebar
creative writingTop 12
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (1956) por Naguib Mahfouz
creative writingTop 12
Chaka (1925) por Thomas Mofolo
creative writingTop 12
The Collected Poetry (1990) por Léopold Sédar Senghor
creative writingTop 12
A Grain of Wheat (1967) por Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
creative writingTop 12
Llamada de Sosu, La (Spanish Edition) (1997) por Meshack Asare
literature for childrenTop 12
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (1974) por Cheikh Anta Diop
scholarship/non-fictionTop 12
Aké : los años de la niñez (1981) por Wole Soyinka
scholarship/non-fictionTop 12
al-Mawt ʻalá al-asfalt por ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Abnūdī
creative writing
La flecha del dios (1964) por Chinua Achebe
creative writing
Anowa (1970) por Ama Ata Aidoo
creative writing
Zayni Barakat (1974) por Gamal el-Ghitani
creative writing
The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo (1991) por Germano Almeida
creative writing
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) por Ayi Kwei Armah
creative writing
The Fortunes of Wangrin (1973) por Amadou Hampâté Bâ
creative writing
La Noche sagrada (1987) por Tahar Ben Jelloun
creative writing
The Poor Christ of Bomba (1956) por Mongo Beti
creative writing
A Dry White Season (1979) por André Brink
creative writing
Riwan, ou, Le chemin de sable (1999) por Ken Bugul
creative writing
The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990) por Syl Cheney-Coker
creative writing
The Simple Past (1986) por Driss Chraïbi
creative writing
Vida y época de Michael K (1983) por J. M. Coetzee
creative writing
Karingana ua Karingana (2008) por José Craveirinha
creative writing
Climbie (Heinemann African Writers Series) (1971) por Bernard Binkin Dadie
creative writing
Le Metier A Tisser (2001) por Mohamed Dib
creative writing
La grande maison (1975) por Mohammed Dib
creative writing
L'Incendie (1954) por Mohammed Dib
creative writing
Los Cuentos de Amadou Koumba (1947) por Birago Diop
creative writing
Murambi, the Book of Bones (2000) por Boubacar Boris Diop
creative writing
Las delicias de la maternidad (1979) por Buchi Emecheta
creative writing
Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter’s Saga (1939) por D. O. Fagunwa
creative writing
The Beggars' Strike (1979) por Aminata Sow Fall
creative writing
Maps (1986) por Nuruddin Farah
creative writing
The Blood Knot: A Play in Three Acts (1656) por Athol Fugard
creative writing
La Hija de Burger (1979) por Nadine Gordimer
creative writing
A Question of Power (1974) por Bessie Head
creative writing
We Killed Mangy Dog & Other Stories (1969) por Luís Bernardo Honwana
creative writing
Bones (1988) por Chenjerai Hove
creative writing
Abyssinian Chronicles (1998) por Moses Isegawa
creative writing
Wrath of the Ancestors (1981) por A. C. Jordan
creative writing
The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena (1978) por Elsa Joubert
creative writing
Ambiguous Adventure (1961) por Cheikh Hamidou Kane
creative writing
Ualalapi (1991) por Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
creative writing
Los soles de las independencias (1970) por Ahmadou Kourouma
creative writing
The Dark Child (1954) por Camara Laye
creative writing
Nós, os do Makulusu (1985) por José Luandino Vieira
creative writing
Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night (1991) por Sindiwe Magona
creative writing
The House of Hunger (1978) por Dambudzo Marechera
creative writing
Un attiéké pour Elgass: Roman (French Edition) (1993) por Tierno Monenembo
creative writing
Indaba, My Children (1965) por Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
creative writing
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (1960) por D. T. Niane
creative writing
The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg (1961) por Sibusiso Nyembezi
creative writing
Labyrinths (1971) por Christopher Okigbo
creative writing
La carretera hambrienta (1991) por Ben Okri
creative writing
The old Man and the Medal (1956) por Ferdinand Oyono
creative writing
Song of Lawino (1960) por Okot P'Bitek
creative writing
A Geração da Utopia (1992) por Pepetela
creative writing
Utenzi wa vita vya uhuru, 1939 hata 1945 por Shaaban Robert
creative writing
Mujer en punto cero (1975) por Nawal El Saadawi
creative writing
Época de migración al Norte (1966) por Tayeb Salih
creative writing
Le jeune homme de sable: Roman (1979) por Williams Sassine
creative writing
God's Bits of Wood (1960) por Ousmane Sembene
creative writing
Third World Express (1992) por MONGANE WALLY SEROTE
creative writing
La muerte y el caballero del rey (1975) por Wole Soyinka
creative writing
Le mauvais sang ; suivi de Feu de brousse ; et, A triche-cœur (1978) por Tchicaya U. Tam'Si
creative writing
Life and a Half (2004) por Sony Lab'ou Tansi
creative writing
Devil on the Cross (1980) por Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
creative writing
El bebedor de vino de palma (1952) por Amos Tutuola
creative writing
Butterfly Burning (1998) por Yvonne Vera
creative writing
Amal'eZulu (2021) por Benedict Wallet Vilakazi
creative writing
Nedjma (1956) por Kateb Yacine
creative writing
Stories from a Shona childhood (1989) por Charles Mungoshi
literature for children
Mamy Wata and the Monster (1993) por Veronique Tadjo
literature for children
Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (1987) por Ifi Amadiume
scholarship/non-fiction
Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment. (2 Volumes) (1974) por Samir Amin
scholarship/non-fiction
Origens do nacionalismo africano: Continuidade e raptura nos movimentos unitarios emergentes da luta contra a dominacao colonial portuguesa, 1911-1961 (Caminhos da memoria) (Portuguese Edition) (1997) por Mario de Andrade
scholarship/non-fiction
In My Father's House (1992) por Kwame Anthony Appiah
scholarship/non-fiction
Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral (1979) por Amílcar Cabral
scholarship/non-fiction
Kiswahili : past, present, and future horizons (1998) por Rocha Chimera
scholarship/non-fiction
Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation, The Practice And Its Prevention (1994) por Efua Dorkenoo
scholarship/non-fiction
Ethiopia Unbound (1969) por J. E. Casely Hayford
scholarship/non-fiction
African Philosophy: Myth and Reality (1977) por Paulin J. Hountondji
scholarship/non-fiction
The History of the Yorubas (1921) por Samuel Johnson
scholarship/non-fiction
Facing Mount Kenya (1962) por Jomo Kenyatta
scholarship/non-fiction
Histoire de l'Afrique noire, d'hier à demain (1978) por Joseph Ki-Zerbo
scholarship/non-fiction
Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa (1998) por Antjie Krog
scholarship/non-fiction
Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity (Critical Psychology Series) (1995) por Amina Mama
scholarship/non-fiction
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton Series in Culture/Power/History) (1996) por Mahmood Mamdani
scholarship/non-fiction
El largo camino hacia la libertad (1994) por Nelson Mandela
scholarship/non-fiction
The Soul of the White Ant (1925) por Eugene N. Marais
scholarship/non-fiction
Retrato Del Colonizado (1957) por Albert Memmi
scholarship/non-fiction
The Struggle for Mozambique (1969) por Eduardo Mondlane
scholarship/non-fiction
Down Second Avenue (1959) por Es'kia Mphahlele
scholarship/non-fiction
The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge (1988) por V. Y. Mudimbe
scholarship/non-fiction
Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957) por Kwame Nkrumah
scholarship/non-fiction
Native Life in South Africa (1970) por Sol T. Plaatje
scholarship/non-fiction
The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985 (1996) por Charles Van Onselen
scholarship/non-fiction

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