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10 Best Contemporary African Books
One truth i am convinced about is that Africa Houses Great minds. With just few African youths assembled in GIMPA ghana under the 2018 Cohort 10 Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI). I was opportune to sit, dine and brain storm with African youths of exceptional mindset and orientation. this makes me stand firm in my conviction and say I BELIEVE IN AFRICA!
The list below are 10 best contemporary African books As chosen by
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, deputy editor of Granta Magazine
But today we would focus on the first 3. I got so excited that i downloaded the three already and cant wait to start reading and we would be talking about them here.
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1.The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna (2010)Forna’s memoir, The Devil That Danced
on the Water, was a daughter’s search for the truth of a murdered father’s last
days, and for a country – Sierra Leone – lost to civil war. In this, her second
novel, she takes the reader to Freetown in peacetime – in 1969 and the present
day. An English psychologist, Adrian Lockheart, hears the confessions of a
dying man, Elias Cole. What unfolds is an unforgettable love story, a tale of
complicity, betrayal and trauma that perhaps does more to tell us about this
bitter conflict – and to make that telling stick – than any work of non-fiction
can
Photograph: Public Domain
2. Zoo City
Lauren Beukes (2010)The winner of the 2011 Arthur C Clarke
award, this urban fantasy-noir thriller merges visions of dystopia with
faultless plotting and Shona cosmology, bringing the spirit possession of
traditional religion to a near-future Johannesburg. Zinzi December finds
things, even when she doesn’t want to. When she’s hired to find a missing
teenage pop star, it’s almost certain that her shavi (a compulsion or talent
with a bitter cost) will bring disaster. There is rhyme and reason to this imagined
future – and it’s a believable and engrossing vision
Photograph: Public Domain
3. Lyrics Alley
Leila Aboulela (2010)Set in mid-50s, pre-independence Sudan,
Aboulela’s third novel takes us on a journey to Egypt and postwar Britain as we
follow the life of Nur, the cosmopolitan son of a powerful businessman, who
finds his dreams dashed following an accident. This is also the story of the
conflict between Nur’s traditional mother and the city-bred Egyptian co-wife
whose arrival threatens the stability of the family. Though set mostly in the
world of the northern Sudanese, Aboulela’s gentle, poetic prose is a perfect
counterpoint to the time of turmoil and upheaval she chronicles
Photograph: Public Domain
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