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THE KALAHARI TYPING SCHOOL FOR MEN

THE KALAHARI TYPING SCHOOL FOR MEN

Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent’ reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case – a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reass
SZL 172.98
These Bones Will Rise Again

These Bones Will Rise Again

A leading writer of Zimbabwe s born-free generation reflects on the November 2017 ousting of Robert Mugabe, radically reframing the history of Zimbabwe to include the perspectives of workers, women and urban movements. In November 2017 the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented a
SZL 407.37
Thing Around Your Neck, The

Thing Around Your Neck, The

In ‘A Private Experience’, a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she’s been pushing away. In ‘Tomorrow Is Too Far’, a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother’s death.
SZL 380.92
Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

This cherished contemporary classic of Nigerian literature—and the first volume of Achebe’s celebrated African Trilogy—tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village.
SZL 203.69
THIS MOURNABLE BODY

THIS MOURNABLE BODY

A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable authors
SZL 688.57
TIME FOR NEW DREAMS, A

TIME FOR NEW DREAMS, A

Booker Prize-winning novelist and one of Britain’s foremost poets, Ben Okri is a passionate advocate of the written word. In A Time for New Dreams he breaks new ground in an unusual collection of linked essays, which address such diverse themes as childhood, self-censorship, the role of beauty, the
SZL 439.56
Tomorrow I Will Be Twenty

Tomorrow I Will Be Twenty

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize Businessclaud.com is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead,
SZL 527.44
Tram 83

Tram 83

**Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize 2016** **Winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Debut African Fiction** Two friends, one a budding writer home from abroad, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the most notorious nightclub—Tram 83—in a war-torn city-state in secession, surround
SZL 498.21
TROPICAL FISH

TROPICAL FISH

In her fiction debut, Doreen Baingana follows a Ugandan girl as she navigates the uncertain terrain of adolescence. Set mostly in pastoral Entebbe with stops in the cities Kampala and Los Angeles, Tropical Fish depicts the reality of life for Christine Mugisha and her family after Idi Amin s dictato
SZL 1,052.10
TRUE CITIZEN

TRUE CITIZEN

Maina is a violent robber whose disgust for blood and craving to be loved forces him to quit for a better career. But when Maina lands the job of a matatu driver, he realizes that he has slipped into the underworld bedeviled by corrupt traffic police, city council askaris, and cartels.
SZL 293.04
Unbury Our Dead with Song

Unbury Our Dead with Song

Mukoma wa Ngugi
SZL 524.48
Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote

Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote

Ahmadou Kourouma’s remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora – storyteller and king’s fool. Over the course of five nights he tells the life story of Koyaga, President and Dictator of the Gulf Coast. Orphaned at the age of seven, Koyaga grows up to be a terrible hunter; he fights my
SZL 454.18
We Need New Names

We Need New Names

* Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013*
SZL 483.59
We Should All Be Feminists

We Should All Be Feminists

In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on
SZL 337.07
Weep Not, Child

Weep Not, Child

The great Kenyan writer’s powerful first novel Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war aga
SZL 659.34
Welcome to Lagos

Welcome to Lagos

They are unlikely allies – a private, a housewife, an officer, a militant and a young girl. They share a need for escape and a dream for the future. Soon, they will also share a burden that none could have expected. In the city ahead, scandal will fall into their laps and they will have to decide wh
SZL 483.59
What is the What

What is the What

This is the story of a man who, as a boy, was separated from his family in Sudan’s brutal civil war; who survived aerial bombardment and attacks by militias and wild animals; who ate whatever he could find or nothing at all; who, as a boy considered ending his life to end the suffering; and who even
SZL 571.47
What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky

What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky

A stunning collection of short stories from Caine-Prize shortlisted and Commonwealth Writer’s Prize winner Lesley Nneka Arimah, WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY is a debut with all the imagination of Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl and the toughness of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels.
SZL 571.47
What Will People Say?

What Will People Say?

In “What Will People Say?,” a rich variety of township characters the preachers, the teachers, the gangsters and the defeated come to life in vivid language as they eke out their lives in the shadows of gray concrete blocks of flats. It is the story of the Fourie family, residents of Hanover Park in
SZL 553.89
When the Plums Are Ripe

When the Plums Are Ripe

In Cameroon, plum season is a highly anticipated time of year. But for the narrator of When the Plums Are Ripe, the poet Pouka, the season reminds him of the “time when our country had discovered the root not so much of its own violence as that of the world’s own, and, in response, had thrown its so
SZL 329.67
Whispering Trees, The

Whispering Trees, The

The Whispering Trees, award winning writer Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s debut collection of short stories, employs nuance, subtle drama and deadpan humour to capture colourful Nigerian lives. There’s Kyakkyawa, who sparks forbidden thoughts in her father and has a bit of angels and witches in her; there’
SZL 410.33
Who Fears Death

Who Fears Death

Now optioned as a TV series for HBO, with executive producer George R. R. Martin!
SZL 337.07
Who Will Catch Us As We Fall

Who Will Catch Us As We Fall

Growing up in the Nairobi of the 90s, a seething boiling pot of racial tension and conflicting cultural taboos, Leena and Jai are raised to believe in a Kenya full of possibility and potential. But as they come of age and venture into a world of underground activists beyond the confines of their tig
SZL 466.02
Wild Poems

Wild Poems

Ben Okri is a prolific Booker-Prize winning novelist and essayist, but has published only two collections of poetry. The first was An African Elegy and the second was Mental Fight. Both were highly regarded. Thus a third collection is a literary event, especially since 13 years have elapsed since hi
SZL 483.59
Wizard of the Crow

Wizard of the Crow

Set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for the souls of the Aburirian people, between a megalomaniac dictator and an unemployed young man who embraces the mantle of a magician.
SZL 879.12
Woman at Point Zero

Woman at Point Zero

Nawal El Saadawi’s highly acclaimed feminist novel, Woman at Point Zero, follows the life of Firdaus, an Egyptian peasant girl, from her childhood of incomprehensible cruelty and neglect to her end in a grimy Cairo prison cell.
SZL 703.37
Woman Next Door,The

Woman Next Door,The

Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one is white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed. And both are sworn enemiesprice shownaring hedge and hostility which they prune with zeal that belies the fact that they are both over eighty.
SZL 527.44
Work in Progress and Other Stories

Work in Progress and Other Stories

Short stories from the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa’s leading literary prize – awarded to an African writer published in Engliprice shown whether in Africa or elsewhere. The colection includes the five shortlisted stories along with 12 stories written by the Caine Prize Writers’ workshop. Th
SZL 553.89
Wrestling with the Devil

Wrestling with the Devil

Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arrived at his home and took him to Kenya’s Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. There, Ngugi lives in a block alongside other political prisoners, but he refuse
SZL 377.96
A GUIDE TO THE BEASTS OF EAST AFRICA

A GUIDE TO THE BEASTS OF EAST AFRICA

The engaging sequel to Nicholas Drayson’s much-loved A Guide to the Birds of East Africa sees the return of Mr Malik and the East African Ornithological Society.
SZL 278.43
A SUNDAY AT THE POOL IN KIGALI

A SUNDAY AT THE POOL IN KIGALI

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a moving, passionate love story set amid the turmoil and terror of Rwanda’s genocide. All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the Mille-Collines hotel: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates, UN peacekeepers, prostitutes. Keeping a watch
SZL 527.44
Africa 39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara

Africa 39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara

Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and Doris Lessing, to more recent talents like Nuruddin Farah, Ben Okri, Aminatta Forna and Brian Chikwava.
SZL 600.70
AFRICA JUNCTION

AFRICA JUNCTION

Adele is in a mess. On her own with her young son, struggling to cope with her job as a teacher, and stuck in a disastrous – and dangerous – affair, her life is unravelling. The sharp contrasts and certainties she experienced during the years she spent as a child in far-off Senegal have faded to a d
SZL 377.96
AFRICA WRITES BACK

AFRICA WRITES BACK

Africa Writes Back was published in 2008 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart – the novel which provided the impetus for the foundation of the Heinemann African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the Editorial Adviser. With the 50th
SZL 876.16
African Love Stories: An Anthology

African Love Stories: An Anthology

This radical collection of short stories is a double award-winning book aimed at debunking the myth about African women as impoverished victims. The stories deal with challenging themes representing some of the most complex love stories ever published from Africa, ranging from labour pains to burial
SZL 583.12
AFRICAN MYTHS & FOLKTALES

AFRICAN MYTHS & FOLKTALES

How was the earth formed, and where did animals come from? Imaginative answers to age-old questions can be found among Africa’s oral traditions. Compiled by the “Father of Black History,” these fables unfold amid a magical realm of tricksters and fairies. Recounted in simple language, they will ench
SZL 468.79
AFRICAN MYTHS & LEGENDS

AFRICAN MYTHS & LEGENDS

A stunning new cover, design and format brings African Myths & Legends, a combination of two earlier publications (Daughter of the Moonlight and Other African Tales and South African Myths and Legends), to life. It is a spellbinding and fascinating collection of tales that will enliven the imaginati
SZL 641.77
AFRICAN MYTHS OF ORIGIN

AFRICAN MYTHS OF ORIGIN

Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. From impassioned descriptions of animal-creators to dra
SZL 659.34
African Psycho

African Psycho

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize Businessclaud.com Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. He’s planned the crime for some time, but still, the act of murder requires a bit of psychological and logistical preparation. Luckily, he has a mentor to call
SZL 466.02
AFRICAN SHORT STORIES

AFRICAN SHORT STORIES

This anthology of 20 stories are from all over Africa, grouped geographically into four different sections – West, East, North and Southern Africa.
SZL 167.06
African Trilogy, The HC

African Trilogy, The HC

Here, collected for the first time in Everyman’s Library, are the three internationally acclaimed classic novels that comprise what has come to be known as Chinua Achebe’s “African Trilogy.”
SZL 1,318.68
African Trilogy,The PB

African Trilogy,The PB

Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who “opened the magic casements of African fiction.” The African Trilogy–comprised of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease–is his magnum opus. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the l
SZL 1,172.16
African Violet

African Violet

The life and times of a war hero who discovers the oddities of the world and returns to declare his own form of independence…An inveterate chancer and drunk gives a command performance as he outwits his boss…Sensation grips Malawi as a homosexual caught in the act takes a righteous stand… A sister a
SZL 483.59
Baking Cakes in Kigali

Baking Cakes in Kigali

Angel Tungazara runs a small business, baking cakes for the parties and celebrations of her neighbours. As her customers tell her their stories, Angel comes to realize how much each of them has to mourn as well as what they have to celebrate. And, finallyprice showne comes to accept how much that is true o
SZL 466.02
Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born,The

Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born,The

The central story in this book tells of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn.
SZL 612.54
Born on a Tuesday

Born on a Tuesday

From one of Nigeria’s finest contemporary literary talents comes Elnathan John’s highly awaited debut novel. Told through the irresistible voice of a young boy, Dantala, Born on a Tuesday is a masterful and haunting coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of extremist politics and religion in N
SZL 439.56
Diaries of a Dead African

Diaries of a Dead African

These diaries of farmer Meme and his sons Calama and Abel cover critical months in the life of the Jumai family. First published in 2005, the sharp contrast between the startling comedy of the narration and the tense circumstances of the diarists is as fresh as ever in this tenth anniversary edition
SZL 553.89
Down Second Avenue

Down Second Avenue

Es’kia Mphahlele’s seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa—available for the first time in Penguin Classics Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es’kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African writing. Down Second Avenue is a landmark book
SZL 512.82