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Suggestions for Summer Reading

Maryse Conde, Segu (Ballantine) (family saga in West Africa)

Sembene Ousmane, God’s Bits of Wood (Heinemann) (story of 1947/48 railway workers strike in French West Africa—focuses on role of women)

Stanlake Samkange, On Trial for my Country (Heinemann) (Lobenguela/Cecil Rhodes story)

Chinua Achebe, A Man of the People (set in early independence period)

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (classic story of the coming of the Europeans
in eastern Nigeria)

Ngugi wa Thiongo, Devil on the Cross (Heinemann) (bitter critique of neo-colonialism)

Ngugi wa Thiongo, The River Between (Heinemann) (story of 2 sisters who make different choices around circumcision)

Ngugi wa Thiongo, A Grain of Wheat (Heinemann) (story of Kenyan liberation struggle)

Sindiwe Magona, Mother to Mother (about death of Amy Bielh, the Fulbright student killed in South Africa just before elections in 1993, written from the perspective of the mother of one of the young men accused of killing her)

Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (incredible autobiography)

Just for fun: Alexander McCall Smith, #1 Ladies Detective Agency (series of 5 books)

D.T. Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

David Wisniewski, Sundiata: Lion King of Mali (children’s storybook)