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Tag info: African literature

Includes: African literature, African Lit., Literature - African, "african literature", af lit, african lit, african literarure, african.literature, african_literature, africanliterature, afrikanische Literatur, literatuur; Afrika (what?)

Tag and its aliases used 3,562 times by 463 users.

Most often tagged African literature

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (181)
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe (30)
The Famished Road by Ben Okri (30)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (30)
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe (28)
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (28)
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (25)
No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe (25)
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (24)
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (23)
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba (20)
Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo (18)
The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo (18)
Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo (17)
Ake: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka (16)
God's Bits of Wood (African Writers Series) by Ousmane Sembène (16)
A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo (15)
Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta (15)
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee (14)
Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiongo (14)

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Recently tagged African literature

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Walk in the Night and Other Stories (African Writers Series) by Alex La Guma	goddesspt2	African literature, South Africa, short stories
In the Fog of the Seasons' End (African Writers Series) by Alex La Guma	goddesspt2	African literature, South Africa, apartheid
A Grain of Wheat (African Writers Series) by Wa Thiong'o Ngugi	goddesspt2	African literature, Kenya
Petals of Blood (African Writers Series) by Wa Thiong'o Ngugi	goddesspt2	African literature, Kenya
The Interpreters (African Writers Series) by Wole Soyinka	goddesspt2	African literature, Nigeria
No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe	goddesspt2	African literature, Nigeria
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