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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Okonkwo oder Das Alte stürzt (1958) von Chinua Achebe
creative writingTop 12
Ein so langer Brief (1981) von Mariama Bâ
creative writingTop 12
Das schlafwandelnde Land (1992) von Mia Couto
creative writingTop 12
Der Preis der Freiheit (1988) von Tsitsi Dangarembga
creative writingTop 12
Fantasia (1985) von Assia Djebar
creative writingTop 12
Kairo-Trilogie, Zwischen den Palästen,Palast der Sehnsucht,Zuckergäßchen (1956) von Naguib Mahfouz
creative writingTop 12
Chaka, der Zulu (1925) von Thomas Mofolo
creative writingTop 12
Botschaft und Anruf : sämtliche Gedichte (1990) von Léopold Sédar Senghor
creative writingTop 12
A Grain of Wheat (1967) von Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
creative writingTop 12
Als Sosu sein Dorf rettete (1997) von Meshack Asare
literature for childrenTop 12
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (1974) von Cheikh Anta Diop
scholarship/non-fictionTop 12
Aké (1981) von Wole Soyinka
scholarship/non-fictionTop 12
al-Mawt ʻalá al-asfalt von ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Abnūdī
creative writing
Der Pfeil Gottes (1964) von Chinua Achebe
creative writing
Anowa (1970) von Ama Ata Aidoo
creative writing
Seini Barakat (1974) von Gamal el-Ghitani
creative writing
Das Testament des Herrn Napumoceno: Roman (Unionsverlag Taschenbücher) (German Edition) (1991) von Germano Almeida
creative writing
Die Schönen sind noch nicht geboren (The beautiful ones are not yet born) (1968) von Ayi Kwei Armah
creative writing
The Fortunes of Wangrin (1973) von Amadou Hampâté Bâ
creative writing
Die Nacht der Unschuld (1987) von Tahar Ben Jelloun
creative writing
Der arme Christ von Bomba (Le pauvre christ de Bomba) (1956) von Mongo Beti
creative writing
Weiße Zeit der Dürre. Roman. (1979) von André Brink
creative writing
Riwan, ou, Le chemin de sable (1999) von Ken Bugul
creative writing
Der Nubier (1990) von Syl Cheney-Coker
creative writing
The Simple Past (1986) von Driss Chraïbi
creative writing
Leben und Zeit des Michael K (1983) von J. M. Coetzee
creative writing
Karingana ua Karingana (2008) von José Craveirinha
creative writing
Climbie (Heinemann African Writers Series) (1971) von Bernard Binkin Dadie
creative writing
Le Metier A Tisser (2001) von Mohamed Dib
creative writing
La grande maison (1975) von Mohammed Dib
creative writing
L'Incendie (1954) von Mohammed Dib
creative writing
Geistertöchter. Die Geschichten des Amadou Koumba. (1947) von Birago Diop
creative writing
Murambi, the Book of Bones (2000) von Boubacar Boris Diop
creative writing
Zwanzig Säcke Muschelgeld (1979) von Buchi Emecheta
creative writing
Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter’s Saga (1939) von D. O. Fagunwa
creative writing
The Beggars' Strike (1979) von Aminata Sow Fall
creative writing
Maps. SZ-Bibliothek Band 66 (1986) von Nuruddin Farah
creative writing
The Blood Knot: A Play in Three Acts (1656) von Athol Fugard
creative writing
Burgers Tochter (1979) von Nadine Gordimer
creative writing
Die Farbe der Macht (1974) von Bessie Head
creative writing
Wir haben den räudigen Hund getötet : Erzählungen (1969) von Luís Bernardo Honwana
creative writing
Knochen. Stimmen der Ahnen (1988) von Chenjerai Hove
creative writing
Abyssinian Chronicles (1998) von Moses Isegawa
creative writing
Wrath of the Ancestors (1981) von A. C. Jordan
creative writing
The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena (1978) von Elsa Joubert
creative writing
Der Zwiespalt des Samba Diallo: Erzählung aus Senegal (1961) von Cheikh Hamidou Kane
creative writing
Ualalapi (1991) von Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
creative writing
Der Fürst von Horodougou (1970) von Ahmadou Kourouma
creative writing
Einer aus Kurussa (L`enfant noir) (1954) von Camara Laye
creative writing
Nós, os do Makulusu (1985) von José Luandino Vieira
creative writing
Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night (1991) von Sindiwe Magona
creative writing
The House of Hunger (1978) von Dambudzo Marechera
creative writing
Zahltag in Abidjan (1993) von Tierno Monenembo
creative writing
Indaba (1965) von Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
creative writing
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (1965) von D. T. Niane
creative writing
The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg (1961) von Sibusiso Nyembezi
creative writing
Labyrinths (1971) von Christopher Okigbo
creative writing
Die hungrige Straße (1991) von Ben Okri
creative writing
Der alte Mann und die Medaille (1956) von Ferdinand Oyono
creative writing
Song of Lawino (1960) von Okot P'Bitek
creative writing
A Geração da Utopia (1992) von Pepetela
creative writing
Utenzi wa vita vya uhuru, 1939 hata 1945 von Shaaban Robert
creative writing
Firdaus - eine Frau am Punkt Null (1975) von Nawal El Saadawi
creative writing
Zeit der Nordwanderung (1966) von Tayeb Salih
creative writing
Le jeune homme de sable: Roman (1979) von Williams Sassine
creative writing
Gottes Holzstücke. Roman aus Senegal und Mali (1960) von Ousmane Sembene
creative writing
Third World Express (1992) von MONGANE WALLY SEROTE
creative writing
Death and the King's Horseman (1975) von Wole Soyinka
creative writing
Le mauvais sang ; suivi de Feu de brousse ; et, A triche-cœur (1978) von Tchicaya U. Tam'Si
creative writing
Life and a Half (2004) von Sony Lab'ou Tansi
creative writing
Devil on the Cross (1980) von Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
creative writing
Der Palmweintrinker (1952) von Amos Tutuola
creative writing
Butterfly Burning (1998) von Yvonne Vera
creative writing
Amal'eZulu (2021) von Benedict Wallet Vilakazi
creative writing
Nedjma (1956) von Kateb Yacine
creative writing
Stories from a Shona childhood (1989) von Charles Mungoshi
literature for children
Mamy Wata and the Monster (1993) von Veronique Tadjo
literature for children
Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (1987) von Ifi Amadiume
scholarship/non-fiction
Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment. (2 Volumes) (1974) von 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) von Mario de Andrade
scholarship/non-fiction
In My Father's House (1992) von Kwame Anthony Appiah
scholarship/non-fiction
Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral (1979) von Amílcar Cabral
scholarship/non-fiction
Kiswahili : past, present, and future horizons (1998) von Rocha Chimera
scholarship/non-fiction
Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation, The Practice And Its Prevention (1994) von Efua Dorkenoo
scholarship/non-fiction
Ethiopia Unbound (1969) von J. E. Casely Hayford
scholarship/non-fiction
African Philosophy: Myth and Reality (1977) von Paulin J. Hountondji
scholarship/non-fiction
The History of the Yorubas (1921) von Samuel Johnson
scholarship/non-fiction
Facing Mount Kenya (1962) von Jomo Kenyatta
scholarship/non-fiction
Histoire de l'Afrique noire, d'hier à demain (1978) von Joseph Ki-Zerbo
scholarship/non-fiction
Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa (1998) von Antjie Krog
scholarship/non-fiction
Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity (Critical Psychology Series) (1995) von Amina Mama
scholarship/non-fiction
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton Series in Culture/Power/History) (1996) von Mahmood Mamdani
scholarship/non-fiction
Der lange Weg zur Freiheit (1994) von Nelson Mandela
scholarship/non-fiction
Die Seele der weissen Ameise (1925) von Eugene N. Marais
scholarship/non-fiction
The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957) von Albert Memmi
scholarship/non-fiction
The Struggle for Mozambique (1969) von Eduardo Mondlane
scholarship/non-fiction
Down Second Avenue (1959) von Es'kia Mphahlele
scholarship/non-fiction
The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge (1988) von V. Y. Mudimbe
scholarship/non-fiction
Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957) von Kwame Nkrumah
scholarship/non-fiction
Native Life in South Africa (1970) von Sol T. Plaatje
scholarship/non-fiction
The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985 (1996) von Charles Van Onselen
scholarship/non-fiction

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