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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WerkCategorieSorteerveld
Een wereld valt uiteen (1958) door Chinua Achebe
creative writingTop 12
Een lange brief (1981) door Mariama Bâ
creative writingTop 12
Slaapwandelend land (1992) door Mia Couto
creative writingTop 12
Op gespannen voet (1988) door Tsitsi Dangarembga
creative writingTop 12
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (1985) door Assia Djebar
creative writingTop 12
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (1956) door Naguib Mahfouz
creative writingTop 12
Chaka (1925) door Thomas Mofolo
creative writingTop 12
The Collected Poetry (1990) door Léopold Sédar Senghor
creative writingTop 12
Slechts een korrel graan (1967) door Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
creative writingTop 12
Sosu's Call (1997) door Meshack Asare
literature for childrenTop 12
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (1974) door Cheikh Anta Diop
scholarship/non-fictionTop 12
Jeugd in Aké (1981) door Wole Soyinka
scholarship/non-fictionTop 12
al-Mawt ʻalá al-asfalt door ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Abnūdī
creative writing
Pijl van God (1964) door Chinua Achebe
creative writing
Anowa (1970) door Ama Ata Aidoo
creative writing
De spion van de sultan (1974) door Gamal el-Ghitani
creative writing
Het testament van Senhor Araújo (1991) door Germano Almeida
creative writing
De tijd is nog niet rijp (1968) door Ayi Kwei Armah
creative writing
The Fortunes of Wangrin (1973) door Amadou Hampâté Bâ
creative writing
Gewijde nacht (1987) door Tahar Ben Jelloun
creative writing
De arme Christus van Bomba (1956) door Mongo Beti
creative writing
Een droog wit seizoen (1979) door André Brink
creative writing
Riwan, ou, Le chemin de sable (1999) door Ken Bugul
creative writing
The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990) door Syl Cheney-Coker
creative writing
The Simple Past (1986) door Driss Chraïbi
creative writing
Wereld & wandel van Michael K (1983) door J. M. Coetzee
creative writing
Karingana ua Karingana (2008) door José Craveirinha
creative writing
Climbie (Heinemann African Writers Series) (1971) door Bernard Binkin Dadie
creative writing
Le Metier A Tisser (2001) door Mohamed Dib
creative writing
La grande maison (1975) door Mohammed Dib
creative writing
L'Incendie (1954) door Mohammed Dib
creative writing
Tales of Amadou Koumba (1947) door Birago Diop
creative writing
Murambi, the Book of Bones (2000) door Boubacar Boris Diop
creative writing
De zegeningen van het moederschap (1979) door Buchi Emecheta
creative writing
Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter’s Saga (1939) door D. O. Fagunwa
creative writing
The Beggars' Strike (1979) door Aminata Sow Fall
creative writing
Kaarten (1986) door Nuruddin Farah
creative writing
The Blood Knot: A Play in Three Acts (1656) door Athol Fugard
creative writing
Burger's dochter (1979) door Nadine Gordimer
creative writing
Een kwestie van macht (1974) door Bessie Head
creative writing
We Killed Mangy Dog & Other Stories (1969) door Luís Bernardo Honwana
creative writing
Beenderen (1988) door Chenjerai Hove
creative writing
Abyssinian Chronicles (1998) door Moses Isegawa
creative writing
Wrath of the Ancestors (1981) door A. C. Jordan
creative writing
De zwarte dagen van Poppie Nongena (1978) door Elsa Joubert
creative writing
Ambivalent avontuur (1961) door Cheikh Hamidou Kane
creative writing
Ualalapi (1991) door Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
creative writing
The Suns of Independence (1970) door Ahmadou Kourouma
creative writing
The Dark Child (1954) door Camara Laye
creative writing
Nós, os do Makulusu (1985) door José Luandino Vieira
creative writing
Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night (1991) door Sindiwe Magona
creative writing
The House of Hunger (1978) door Dambudzo Marechera
creative writing
Un attiéké pour Elgass: Roman (French Edition) (1993) door Tierno Monenembo
creative writing
Indaba, My Children (1965) door Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
creative writing
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (1960) door D. T. Niane
creative writing
Inkinsela yase Mgungundlovu (1961) door Sibusiso Nyembezi
creative writing
Labyrinths (1971) door Christopher Okigbo
creative writing
De hongerende weg (1991) door Ben Okri
creative writing
De oude man en de medaillle (1956) door Ferdinand Oyono
creative writing
Song of Lawino (1960) door Okot P'Bitek
creative writing
A Geração da Utopia (1992) door Pepetela
creative writing
Utenzi wa vita vya uhuru, 1939 hata 1945 door Shaaban Robert
creative writing
Ferdaoes (1975) door Nawal El Saadawi
creative writing
Seizoen van de trek naar het noorden (1966) door Tayeb Salih
creative writing
Le jeune homme de sable: Roman (1979) door Williams Sassine
creative writing
De houtjes van God (1960) door Ousmane Sembene
creative writing
Third World Express (1992) door MONGANE WALLY SEROTE
creative writing
Death and the King's Horseman (1975) door Wole Soyinka
creative writing
Le mauvais sang ; suivi de Feu de brousse ; et, A triche-cœur (1978) door Tchicaya U. Tam'Si
creative writing
Het teken van Martial (2004) door Sony Lab'ou Tansi
creative writing
Devil on the Cross (1980) door Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
creative writing
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town (1952) door Amos Tutuola
creative writing
Vuurvlinder (1998) door Yvonne Vera
creative writing
Amal'eZulu (2021) door Benedict Wallet Vilakazi
creative writing
Nedjma (1956) door Kateb Yacine
creative writing
Stories from a Shona childhood (1989) door Charles Mungoshi
literature for children
Mamy Wata and the Monster (1993) door Veronique Tadjo
literature for children
Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (1987) door Ifi Amadiume
scholarship/non-fiction
Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment. (2 Volumes) (1974) door 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) door Mario de Andrade
scholarship/non-fiction
In My Father's House (1992) door Kwame Anthony Appiah
scholarship/non-fiction
Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral (1979) door Amílcar Cabral
scholarship/non-fiction
Kiswahili : past, present, and future horizons (1998) door Rocha Chimera
scholarship/non-fiction
Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation, The Practice And Its Prevention (1994) door Efua Dorkenoo
scholarship/non-fiction
Ethiopia Unbound (1969) door J. E. Casely Hayford
scholarship/non-fiction
African Philosophy: Myth and Reality (1977) door Paulin J. Hountondji
scholarship/non-fiction
The History of the Yorubas (1921) door Samuel Johnson
scholarship/non-fiction
Facing Mount Kenya (1962) door Jomo Kenyatta
scholarship/non-fiction
Histoire de l'Afrique noire, d'hier à demain (1978) door Joseph Ki-Zerbo
scholarship/non-fiction
De kleur van je hart (1998) door Antjie Krog
scholarship/non-fiction
Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity (Critical Psychology Series) (1995) door Amina Mama
scholarship/non-fiction
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton Series in Culture/Power/History) (1996) door Mahmood Mamdani
scholarship/non-fiction
De lange weg naar de vrijheid de autobiografie van Nelson Mandela (1994) door Nelson Mandela
scholarship/non-fiction
De wonderwereld van de termietenstaat (1925) door Eugene N. Marais
scholarship/non-fiction
The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957) door Albert Memmi
scholarship/non-fiction
The Struggle for Mozambique (1969) door Eduardo Mondlane
scholarship/non-fiction
Down Second Avenue (1959) door Es'kia Mphahlele
scholarship/non-fiction
The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge (1988) door V. Y. Mudimbe
scholarship/non-fiction
Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (1957) door Kwame Nkrumah
scholarship/non-fiction
Native Life in South Africa (1970) door Sol T. Plaatje
scholarship/non-fiction
The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985 (1996) door Charles Van Onselen
scholarship/non-fiction

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