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Name the 3 best books you read that originated in the African
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Name the 3 best books you read that originated in the African continent (north Africa doesn't count)
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who the fuck cares
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Things Fall Apart
Mayombe
Terra Sonâmbula

That was easy, boy.
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>>8029233
Palm-Wine Drinkard
Seasons of Migration to the North
Collected Plays of Wole Soyinka
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>>8029233
Anything by Chinua Achebe
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Dusklands - JM Coetzee
The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
July's People - Nadine Gordimer
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The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion

that was easy
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>>8029233
...

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That was easy.
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>>8029233
Umfufu the duck by Zibale

Eek Eek by Ooh AAAAH

shit smeared on a cave wall by anonymous
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Heart Of Darkness
The Stranger
Book Of The Dead

the ideas for first two originated in Africa just not by Africans[french]
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>>8029722
>north Africa doesn't count
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>>8029233
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
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why doesn't North Africa count lol
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>>8029816

See >>8029722

Why is all black literature about the struggle of being black? Erasure tries to comment on this but that just makes it indirectly about the struggle of being black.
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>>8029969
Its the same problem with women. They would rather complain and have the white men fix it than actually do anything for themselves.
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Stars of the New Curfew
Things Fall Apart
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
A Grain of Wheat
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>>8029233
>north africa doesn't count
then i guess it ain't africa
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1. penut butter
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3.
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dicks and cocks and nuts
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>>8029233

>African continent
>(north Africa doesn't count)

Great thread.
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The Second Coming of Jesus Christ by L. Ron. Hoyabembe
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Any three books by Alain Mabanckou
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>>8029816
because OP wants you to confirm that black people are illiterate subhumans once and for all
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"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
"Waiting for the Barbarians" by J.M. Coetzee
"Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence" by David Benatar
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>>8029233
>>8029732
>>8029277
Based taste

Petals of Blood and Wizard of the Crow by Thiong'o

Bitter Harvest by Ian Smith

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

>>8029816
Berber and Arab culture, the faggot should have said "Sub-Saharan Africa"
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>>8029254
>Achebe

wow you really fell for the meme
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>>8032542
obviously
and then we get onto "ok... so you answered my question............. now why are african books... about being african?"
the goalpost, much like the universe, is infinite
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>>8032582
>implying it isnt a slightly above average book with a truly great last chapter.

Its basically the Stoner of Africa
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>>8032594
see
>>8031538


As that anon said, there is nothing wrong with regionalism as a consequence of post-colonialism.
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Has anyone here read Nuruddin Farah?
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>>8032582
you have not read it.
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That's like saying 'what are your three favorite high school football teams'
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>>8032641
gimmie dat shiet
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Stars My Destination by Ben Okri
Blackass by A Igoni Barrett
Dusklands by JM Coetzee
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>>8029233
Just from Somalia

>Aqoondarro waa U nacab jacayl ("Ignorance is the enemy of love"),

>Aniga iyo naftayda ha naloo garnaqo


The lifebloomed Gift.
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