This is an index of links (mostly published here are Kinna Reads) to reading lists and other resources on African Literature to use if you’re looking for suggestions of books to read for the Africa Reading Challenge or just looking for a book by an African writer. Page will be updated often.
- Introduction to African Women Writers: A List for a Reader – I put together this list as an introduction to the works of African women writers.
- List of book reviews for the 2014 Africa Reading Challenge
- Readers Top Ten – Kinna Reads. Nana Fredua of ImageNations asked readers and writers to list their top 10 favorite African books. You can read the various contributions at: Readers’ Top Ten
- Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century – A list of classics; an initiative of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair. This post of mine has the 70 creative works on the 100 list.
- A North African Reading List – M. Lynx Qualey, who runs Arabic Literature (in English), was kind to curate this list for the inaugural Africa Reading Challenge in 2012.
- Reading List: African Fiction #1 – A 2010 list of African books that I want to read or have read.
- Anthologies of African Literature – A list I compiled in 2012 and will update often
- Five Recommended Short Story Collections by Ghanaian Authors – Complied during the 2013 Ghana Literature Week
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New prize for African fiction. NoViolet Bulawayo won this year but the long and short lists are great!
http://www.bellanaija.com/2014/02/25/zimbabwean-noviolet-bulawayo-nigerian-uche-okonkwo-win-at-the-inaugural-etisalat-prize-for-literature/
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