Africa

In this brilliantly clever fictionalised memoir, award-winning author Jamal Mahjoub interrogates how the first generation of Northern Sudanese citizens undertook the momentous task of creating a newly independent nation. Exiled...

Full of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain's Dance shows Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang. Zaire. Late 90's. Mobutu's thirty-year reign is tottering....

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Set between Uganda and South Africa, An Image in a Mirror is the story of Nyakale and Achen, identical twins pulled apart by their mother’s...

Internationally acclaimed Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi's landmark novel Woman at Point Zero, published here with a new foreword. Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder of...

Three classic novels by renowned feminist writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi. A peasant family is torn apart by a village mayor and his lackeys in God Dies by the...

The new novel by Booker-shortlisted author Chigozie Obioma THE TWICE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR 'Obioma is truly the heir to Chinua Achebe' New York Times'Incredibly moving and hopeful' Nadifa Mohamed'Remarkable' Alice Walker'A...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Astonishing... remarkable, mythic' Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple 'Impressive and beautifully imagined' Economist In a small town in western Nigeria, four young...

A BEST NEW BOOK from *Vanity Fair *The Root *Vulture *People *The Washington Post *Christian Science Monitor *Los Angeles Times *Essence A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Pick!...

'A COMPELLING AND POWERFUL NOVEL' - Cherie Jones, author of HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE She's the Pearl of Makoko and the world is her oyster. In Makoko,...

Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book titled The Maze of Inhumanity. It has an immediate hold over him. No one knows what happened...

The new novel from the author of the celebrated Open City - a powerful and masterful exploration of what makes a meaningful life in a world of violence and wonder. Life is...

Winner of an English PEN Award Shortlisted for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle/Gregg Barrios Prize for Translated Literature. A new masterwork of satire, lore, and...

‘Aiwanose Odafen’s novel has entered popular feminist discourse.’ Afrocritik On a Sunday in 1978, Obianuju meets Chigozie at church – the perfect place for an upstanding girl to find a...

A powerful, heartrending, and insightful novel of a trio of women in Cameroon who dare to rebel against oppressive, long-held cultural traditions—including polygamy and domestic abuse—that define and limit their...

Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate coming-of-age novel. It's a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when...

Named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Center For Fiction First Novel Prize Named a Booklist Best Book of the YearA mesmerizing, indelible coming-of-age...

From the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun comes twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and...

A powerful feminist folktale rooted in Ugandan historySmart, headstrong Kirabo is raised by her grandparents in rural Uganda. But as she enters her teens, she starts to feel overshadowed by...

A heartbreaking, exquisitely written masterpiece. One of the ten books – novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography – that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful new novel-a story of love...

Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker PrizeIn this tense and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga channels the hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling nation to lead us...

In Igboland, the lives of two Nigerian women change forever... In the city of Enugu in the 1970s, young Nwabulu dreams of becoming a typist as she endures the endless...

A debut novel by one of the most exciting African literary voices to emerge in recent years Maya grows up in Germany in the shadow of her beautiful, volatile mother-...

Winner of the 2019 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize 'On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment...

The second novel from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of This Mournable Body and Nervous Conditions continues Tambu's story.As Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second year...

A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists. In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot...

Translated by Melanie Mauthner Introducing Scholastique Mukasonga: a major international author and her brilliant and award-winning first novel. Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be...

A modern classic — Lola Shoneyin's debut novel is a portrait of a clamorous household in the midst of upheaval. Coming soon to Netflix! When Baba Segi awoke with a...

'A story rendered with so much heart' Taylor Jenkins Reid The bonds between women - as friends, and across the generations - are the jewels that make this story shine!'...

From the award-winning author of Land of Love and Drowning, an electric new novel that maps the emotional inheritance of one couple newly in love.When Fly and Stela meet in...

Translated by Miled Faiza and Karen McNeillWinner of the 2015 International Prize for Arabic FictionAn emblematic story of the shipwreck of the Arab Spring.At his father's funeral, to the great...

Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as...

Translated by Richard Philcox A mesmerizing novel from one of the most important writers working today, winner of the alternative Nobel Prize Francis Sancher, a handsome outsider, loved by some...

From National Book Award–nominated writer Andrea Lee comes Red Island House, a travel epic that opens a window on the mysterious African island of Madagascar, and on the dangers of...

An audacious and beautiful novel that is both a unique family saga and a spellbinding story of the country of Kenya Kenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is...

From the bestselling author of Homegoingcomes an epic novel from the heart of contemporary America. As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey...

A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up...

Victoriana is a country ruled by an Emperor-for-Life who is dying from an illness not officially acknowledged in a land where truth and facts are decided by the Emperor. The...

The debut novel from one of the National Book Foundation's 2018 5 Under 35 Ada has always been unusual. Her parents prayed her into existence, but something must have gone...

Driven by a deep-seated desire to understand his mother's life before he was born, Derek Owusu offers a powerful imagining of her journey. As she moves from Ghana to the...

Introduced by Petina Gappah, a lost classic by a radical Black South African author: as exiled African activists in post-war London plot to revolutionise their native countries, idealism and tragedy...

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his...

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal lifePoverty and depravity wreak havoc...

A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace...

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**A dazzling tale of cultural identity and displacement, this is the story of a man's escape from his native Zanzibar to...

Translated by Stephen HenighanIn a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic...

A profoundly moving story on the bonds of family and history — this is Beloved for the 21st century. Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One...

An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the Great Zambian Novel you didn't know you were waiting for and...

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. A powerful novel about young people living at the margins of society, struggling to replace the homes they...

When he's not in church, at school or attempting to form 'Africa's first superheroes', he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of Black power and HXVX- the Curse of Africa. Sure...