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... Harvest by Jorge Amado (Brazil)
Open Season by C.J. Box (Wyoming)
The Longest Memory by Fred D'Aguiar (Guyana)
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)
Sandglass by Romesh Gunesekera (Sri Lanka)
The Book of Masks by Hwang Sun-won (North Korea or South Korea)
The Vi ... Welcome! I enjoyed Nervous Conditions also and listened to the Seville Communion on audio back when I had a lengthy commute. If I remember correctly, I enjoyed it well enough but had some trouble keeping track of the foreign names while driving! I enjoyed Nervous Conditions and the sequel The Book of Not. What a gorgeous haul for $4! I thought Nervous Conditions was very intriguing. ... titles. So, for 4 bucks I just picked up White Teeth by Zadie Smith, Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat, Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, and The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte. 200-299
200 Foucault’s Pendulum
203 The Satanic Verses
205 Oscar and Lucinda
208 Nervous Conditions
216 The Child in Time
220 World’s End
223 Beloved
230 An Artist of the Floating World
236 Love in the Time of Cholera
242 The Handmaid’s Tale
243 Perfume
247 ... #19 Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga Completed Sept. 5th, 09 Four international novels
1. The Housekeeper and the Professor
2. Nervous Conditions
3. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
4. ... From a Crooked Rib by Nuruddin Farah - Somalia
9. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton - South Africa
10. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga - Zimbabwe ... oks.org/wp-content/uploads/Book_of_Not.jpg"width=100>
BOOK 54: The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga
A sequel to Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not takes forward the story of Tambu. Tambu is a young black woman who attends a mainly-white convent boarding school in Rhodesia. As she ... ... w.blacklooks.org/wp-content/uploads/Book_of_Not.jpg"width=100>
The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga
A sequel to Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not takes forward the story of Tambu. Tambu is a young black woman who attends a mainly-white convent boarding school in Rhodesia. As she ... ... Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter - J. Nozipo Maraire (4) - Africa
2. Crow Lake - Mary Lawson (5) - Canada
3. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga (5) - Africa
4. The Soloist - Mark Salzman (4.5) - The Arts
5. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon (2) ... ... - Reading Globally Africa theme
10. Playing for Pizza - John Grisham
11. The Girls - Lori Lansens
12. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga - Reading Globally Africa theme - What's in a Name Challenge 2
13. The Moldavian Pimp - Edgardo Cozarinsky - Reading Globa ... ... get a copy and read it. I'd recommend anything by Nadine Gordimer, but especially Burger's Daughter. I recently finished Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, which was fascinating look at Zimbabwe before independence, and one of my all-time favorite African novels is Wole Soyinka's The I ... ... - Reading Globally Africa theme
10. Playing for Pizza - John Grisham
11. The Girls - Lori Lansens
12. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga - Reading Globally Africa theme - What's in a Name Challenge 2
13. The Moldavian Pimp - Edgardo Cozarinsky - Reading Globa ... Here are mine in no particular order:
The Master of Go - Yasunari Kawabata
Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Moldavian Pimp - Edgardo Cozarinsky
Loon: A Marine Story - Jack McLean - This book will be released in May, 2009. I ... If anyone's interested, I have Nervous Conditions (BookCrossing registered) currently waiting to be mooched on BooMooch! Thanks for your great review of Nervous Conditions which has promptly gone on my TBRs!!!!! I really did enjoy Nervous Conditions. I read it as part of the Reading Globally theme of Africa for the month of February. Of the two books I read by Zimbabwean authors, I liked Nervous Conditions more because I found the story more interesting. In my African reads, I 've been trying to ... 12. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
This book is one I'd never have picked up had it not been my intention to read a second book by a native African author for the Reading Globally themed read. Its Zimbabwean author tells the story of a young girl in 1960's Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) ... As in post #124, I also read Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Here are some of my thoughts about that book compared to my previous read, Zenzele:
Why did you choose this country and author?
I chose Nervous Conditions because my previous read was also by a Zimbabwean ... Just finished Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga -- my comments are on the Reading Globally-Africa thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/52855 . It's an interesting look into African girls and women dealing with the traditional African and colonial patriarchy. I recommend it if you ... --> 124
I, too, am reading Nervous Conditions presently and am enjoying it immensely. I'll wait to read your response to it until after I've finished that book myself. ... a.
2. Name the book and the author. Tell us something (brief) about the author. What does the book's title mean? Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. The author was born in 1959, educated in Zimbabwe and England, and returned to Zimbabwe in 1980 with black majority rule. She ... "Shocking, simply shocking..."
Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
"What did you expect?" ... has really grabbed me. I just started another book about Africa. It's set in colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), called Nervous Conditions, and written by Tsitsi Dangarembga. I know nothing about the book or its author other than the author was born and raised in Zimbabwe.
I just ... ... and its The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout, and I'm off to Zimbabwe with trepidation to TsiTsi Dangaremba's Nervous Conditions. The Ten Thousand Things is a gorgeous book for which I'll try to post a review tomorrow.
I think I'll wait to add 5 countries before I update the ... ... then kind of got violent and unbelievable near the end ~ and not as interesting as it should have been. I'm now reading Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga ... which is interesting and a little different. ... .
Achebe, Chinua (Nigeria). Arrow of God.
Couto, Mia (Mozambique) Sleepwalking Land
Dangarembga, Tsitsi (Zimbabwe) Nervous Conditions
Djebar, Assia (Algeria), Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
Emecheta, Buchi (Nigeria) The Joys of Motherhood
Gordimer, Nadine (South Africa) Burg ... ... I'm surprised that Anna herself is not really the main character though!
On deck for this month are Stone Junction and Nervous Conditions ... both of which looked unusual, were kind of hard to track down, but interesing. I couldn't really find all that much on either one. ... Irving and I loved it! Now I am into Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy ... on deck are Stone Junction by Jim Dodge and Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga ~ they both looked unusual and interesting. ... riters?
Tsitsi Dangarembga. Zimbabwean author, playwright & filmmaker. I would recommend her only novel, a bildungsroman, Nervous Conditions. I believe this won the Commonwealth Prize when it was published.
Buchi Emecheta. Nigerian author in the generation before Adichie. It's bleak, but I ... ZIMBABWE
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. A wonderful novel set in former Rhodesia during the 60s told from the perspective of the aspirant young Tambudzai, who gets the rare opportunity to acquire an education when her only brother dies. As the telling unfolds, we gain ... ... was impossible to choose a 10th as there were so many it could have been (The Idea of Perfection, The Farming of Bones, Nervous Conditions, Delirio, Mosquito, Crisis Respiratoria, Funny Boy). Interestingly, not all of these were in my top 5 for the respective quarters; time has ... ... Akosua Busia (Ghana)
Mosquito by Roma Tearne (Sri Lanka)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)
Lemona's Tale by Ken Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria)
After You'd Gone by Maggie O’ Farrell (UK)
Burning Marguerite by Eliz ... ... Tessaro
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Slut! by Leora Tanenbaum
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakeuer
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Letters from Prison by
White Noise by Don DeLil ... There are so many great books by African authors to recommend, but I've chosen three from African women authors:
1. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe/Rhodesia) A young woman comes of age in 1960s/70s Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
2. Children of the New World by Assia Djebar (Alg ... ... - Reading Globally Africa theme
10. Playing for Pizza - John Grisham
11. The Girls - Lori Lansens
12. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga - Reading Globally Africa theme
13. The Moldavian Pimp - Edgardo Cozarinsky - Reading Globally Argentina theme
14. Deat ... ... /A>
2. Crow Lake - Mary Lawson (5) - Review
3. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga (5) - Review
4. The Soloist* - Mark Salzman (4.5) ... ... novel which made the Orange Prize longlist.
Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi, a classic by the noted Tunisian author.
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, a coming-of-age novel by a Zimbabwean author.
Mystery
Tough call, but it goes to Exit Music by Ian Rankin. ... Akosua Busia
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Mosquito by Roma Tearne
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
After You’d Gone by Maggie O’ Farrell
Lemona's Tale by Ken Saro-Wiwa
Non-Fiction:
Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow L ... ... because I had a little goal for myself of reading two things from the 1001 list each month. I read them before I realized Nervous Conditions was on the List. Anyway, I counted them as 194 and 195 on my paper list because I wanted to make a record that I'd read them, and what I thought, but I'll ... ... Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
A Question of Power – Bessie Head (South Africa / Botswana) (re-read)
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)
Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)
Changes – Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)
Joys ... ... I thought it was really fascinating, and am trying to put together the words for a proper review in my head :-)
186 is Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, a book about a young girl is colonial Rhodesia/Zimbabwe who wants to get an education. It was quite good, with a very feminist ... No problem. The first reason I liked Nervous Conditions was the engaging narrator. The story is about her coming of age, which is nothing new in literature. However, the author is able to weave together a story about a young girl's dreams and her reality, the changing social structure as White ... Hi.
Can you please take a minute and tell me what you liked about Nervous Conditions I'm interested in hearing your opinions.
Thanks. #81 - Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dagarembga- a five star read! Finished and genuinely enjoyed Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dagarembga. A lovely coming of age story which also addresses the impact of colonization and the role of women in 1960s Rhodesia. I am just about to start The Brief wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, my October book ... ... of Beento Blackbird. The narrator has a lovely lilting voice, and the story is very intriguing. I also continue reading Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dagarembga. "Generously, sincerely, she confirmed my own impressions."
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dagarembga
"In Sunday School we learnt about Charity and Love and Sin, which the prefects said were all different things, but then, if they were different, I wondered, how did you explain the Prodigal ... "The clan had gathered to welcome its returning hero."
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dagarembga "My mother had miscalculated."
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dagarembga
"Have you eaten some wild shrub that has gone to your head?" "It was a very complicated journey that my father and Nhamo were undertaking."
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
"And you, child," he said, "What were you doing causing such a scene?" Just finished Fear and Trembling and am starting Nervous Conditions. No 111 - how do you find Nervous Conditions? I'm thinking about reading it, so it could help in taking the final decission ;) "Keening".
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga ... on Duma Key in Florida, the other foot shifts from Tokyo and a state of Fear and Trembling to Zimbabwe and a state of Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. ... was a fast, fantastic read. What a clever writer! It was sort of Zen meets theater of the absurd. Now I am on to Nervous conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, and really looking forward to it. ... Ngozi Adichie
Lemona's Tale by Ken Saro-Wiwa (published posthumously)
* Small Island by Andrea Levy
* Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
* 3 LT recommendations – thanks guys! ... to write a review later, but this was definitely one of the best 10 books I've read so far this year.
Soon to be read: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (thanks akeela!). I received the last two books I ordered from The Book Depository in my mail box today: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga and Agamemnon's Daughter by Ismail Kadare. Mrs. Penny -- Nervous Conditions sounds like just the ticket -- I'll have to hunt it down. Thanks for the suggestion. ... of Arab Women edited by Nathalie Handal
Uganda
Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe by Doreen Baingana
Zimbabwe
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga Yippee..........woohoo.......yeeha...a book finally came in the mail. The drought is over!
From BookMooch: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga Thanks for your recommendations. I have added both Earth and Ashes and Nervous Conditions to my TBR mountain. They both sound like very interesting reads! ... Mistress
The Satanic Verses
The Swimming-Pool Library
Oscar and Lucinda
Libra
The Player of Games
Nervous Conditions
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
The Radiant Way
The Afternoon of a Writer
The Black Dahlia
Th ... ... of spring in the air. Thank goodness!
Are you finally on holiday? And did you enjoy your Polish course?!
I enjoyed Nervous Conditions and am glad you recommended it. As for Divisadero, I'll certainly give it a skip. There are way too many brilliant books waiting to be relished! Hi Akeela, how was your holiday?
I'm glad you liked Nervous Conditions - I found it to be one of those books that really opens your eyes to another place, another culture, another way of living.
As for The English Patient, I know I've read it and that I quite enjoyed it, but I can't remember ... From Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga:
Keening: “Keening. I remember keening that seemed to go on all through the night: shrill, sharp, shiny, needles of sound piercing cleanly and deeply to let the anguish in, not out.” (Meaning: funeral lament, or wail over the dead).
Aphas ... Daniel, nice one from Steinbeck :)
From Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, set in colonial Rhodesia in the ‘60s:
"Beside Nyasha I was a paragon of feminine decorum, principally because I hardly ever talked unless spoken to, and then only to answer with the utmost respect ... #59 Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. A wonderful novel set in former Rhodesia during the ‘60s told from the perspective of the aspirant young Tambudzai, who gets the rare opportunity to acquire an education when her only brother dies. As the telling unfolds, we gain insight into a ... ... got back physically from Mauritius but am in Rhodesia now with the remarkable Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangaremga in Nervous Conditions. I just started Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga set in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). It captured me from the word go. The first line of the book: "I was not sorry when my brother died." ... Norway).
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (another great surprise, because I never expected to like a graphic novel).
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Delirio by Laura Restrepo
Mosquito by Roma Tearne (yes, Nickelini got to me, too...) ... Barghouti
33. The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
34. Je viens d'ailleurs by Chahdortt Djavann
35. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
36. Snakepit by Moses Isegawa
37. A Golden Age by Tahmina Anam
38. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Ma ... rachbxl, glad you enjoyed Nervous Conditions! I did also. 35. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Great book! Her brother's death gives a young black girl the opportunity to leave her Zimbabwean village and go to have the education that would have been denied her as long as a male child lived. It's about her changing sense of identity, and ... 17. Zimbabwe
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Really enjoyed this! A young black girl from a poor family in a small village sees her life change when her only brother dies; she is given the chance to go and live with her rich uncle's family and go to the mission school, an avenue ... I would highly recommend all of the ones that I have read which include:
Nervous Conditions, a coming of age story
The Joys of Motherhood, a woman navigates the turbulence and change around tradition and modernity.
Burgher's Daughter, a young woman, daughter of famous anti-apartheid ... ... list are:
Ama Ata Aidoo, Anowa (Ghana)
Mariama Ba, So Long a Letter (Senegal)
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (Zimbabwe)
Assia Djebar, Fantasia: an Algerian Cavalcade.(Algeria)
Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood (Nigeria)
Nadine Gordimer, B ... ... tough to make these lists and impossible to lump fiction and nonfiction together. In no particular order:
Fiction:
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe by Doreen Baingana
The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey
Tiny Deaths by Rob She ... ... Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Breath, Eyes Memory -- Edwidge Danticat, which I think I've read but don't remember much.
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Not bad for a spontaneous trip. That Goodwill store has the best books! Let's see:
Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga. A young woman's coming-of-age story set in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia).
Tropical Fish Tales from Entebbe, Doreen Baingana. Related stories which focus on one of each of three sisters, set in relatively contemporary Ghana.
The House on Fortune ... ... Daughter is about a young woman who is the daughter of anti-Apartheide activists and what that means for her life.
Nervous Conditions is a young woman's coming-of-age story set in Zimbabwe, then known as Rhodesia.
I'd recommend both of these but the Gordimer novel is much 'heavier' ... ... Man of the Mountain, Zora Neale Hurston (novel, US)
My Place, Sally Morgan (autobiography, Australia/ aboriginal)
Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga (novel, Zimbabwe)
Obasan, Joy Kogawa (novel, Canada)
Once Upon an Eskimo Time. Edna Wilder (biography, US)
Praisesong for the ... ... audience; that said, I think this category unnecessarily US-heavy. Comments? Other Recommendations?
I would recommend:
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)
The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria)
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (also Nigeria)
Bea ... ... hing.com/work/3645345)
Arrow of God
The Yacoubian Building
Notes from the Hyenas Belly
La femme sans sepulture
Nervous Conditions
Dumba Nengue, Run for Your Life: Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique
The flame trees of Thika: Memories of an African childhood I agree with you avaland -- for the kind of story Nervous Conditions wants to tell, you probably do need to hear the main character's internal monologue. I guess that's where writing style comes in. I can be entertained by a book that does a lot of telling, but only if there's something ... ... is also more of a drama sort of thing. Obviously, in drama one must show, unless they have a narrator telling. I think with Nervous Conditions we have an adult narrator telling her coming-of-age story. I don't think this particular story could have been told without understanding the thought ... About The Girls of Riyadh -- no honor killing. It's not quite that heavy.
As for Nervous Conditions, my biggest issue was with the writing style. I found the prose very flat and declaratory, so it didn't really engage my interest. I have a *huge* pet peeve about books that fail to follow ... Finished Nervous Conditions by Dangarembga and read two novellas today: The Lifted Veil by George Eliot and The Moonlight Bride by Buchi Emecheta. After finishing Nervous Conditions this morning, I left Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and went back to early 1800's England with George Eliot's novella The Lifted Veil. finally got around to reading Nervous Conditions and came back here to read your review. I'm so surprised that you were disappointed in it and couldn't get through it. I thought it quite good. But, then again, I may have been rebounding a bit from the Memmi (when the author is a philosopher the ... Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe/Rhodesia). Set in the late 1960's in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), this is a classic bildungsroman or coming-of-age novel about a young woman of poor circumstances who wishes to escape the constraints of her rural life. Opportunity is presented to her ... ... going somewhere on it, if it's quiet. Always glad to see others take the initiative, as aluvalibri says.
I'm reading Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. It's a young woman's coming-of-age story in the 1960's Zimbabwe/Rhodesia. I am really enjoying the voice of the young woman. 3. Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe/Rhodesia). Set in the late 1960's in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), this is a classic bildungsroman or coming-of-age novel about a young woman of poor circumstances who wishes to escape the constraints of her rural life. Opportunity is presented to ... ... been so much more. Still, some nice domestic details within the mid-18th century Amsterdam setting. I had planned to start Nervous Conditions today but I have a nasty cold and can't focus, so I've been watching. . . *gasp* - television. Well, a DVD: 3rd season of "Black Books" and at 9 p.m. Susa ... I have left mid-18th century Netherlands (a little letdown) and headed back to Zimbabwe with Nervous Conditions. Haven't started it yet as the cold I have is making concentrating on reading difficult. May have to settle for something else during the ride south. . . ... (class)
Movies: "The Yacoubian Building" and "Midaq Alley"
2008
Pillar of Salt, Albert Memmi (novel, Tunisia)
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (now reading . . .)
Movies: hoping to find a copy of "Silences of the Palace" . . .
I will be continuing in Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi, to be followed by Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. ... woman of Sarajevo
Sri Lanka with Anil's Ghost by Michael Omdaatje
Colonial Rhodesia with tsitsi Dangaremga in Nervous Conditions
Paris with Martha in Paris by Margery Sharp I hope nobody minds, but I'm cross-posting my review of Nervous Conditions from my round-the-world reading thread. My intention isn't to force people to read my post twice - I just think it might be useful for people who are using this thread to select their own African literature.
Nervous Co ... Zimbabwe
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
I made it about halfway through before giving up. The story of a determined, resourceful girl from a disadvantaged family continuing her education could have been a poignant one, but the writing style did it in. The narrator ... ...
Achebe, Chinua (Nigeria). Arrow of God.
Couto, Mia (Mozambique) The Sleepwalking Land
Dangarembga, Tsitsi (Zimbabwe) Nervous Conditions
Djebar, Assia (Algeria), Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
Emecheta, Buchi (Nigeria) The Joys of Motherhood
Gordimer, Nadine (South Africa) Burg ... ...
Sosuís Call by Meshack Asare (1999)
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba (1979)
Terra Sonambula by Mia Couto (1992)
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988)
The African Origins of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop (1955)
L’amour, la fantasia by Assia Djeba ... ... his own novels.
Bookshop manager Bev Ellis said: “When you see someone writing in one of your books you get a bit toey nervous.
“We immediately ran to the books and lo and behold, there was the signature.”
Ms Ellis later approached the author at a nearby supermarket and said he ... ... - Chalmers Johnson
Love In The Driest Season: A Family Memoir - N. Tucker
Loving Graham Greene - Gloria Emerson
Nervous Conditions - T. Dangarembga
... for contemporary African literature (excluding authors listed above):
Graceland by Chris Abani (Nigeria)
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)
Joys of Motherhod by Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria)
From A Crooked Rib by Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)
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