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7 best books like Kintu (Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi): Freshwater, House of Stone, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, An Orchestra of Minorities, The Old Drift, Under the Udala Trees, Dust

Freshwater
AuthorAkwaeke Emezi
ISBN0802127355
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side." Unsettling, heartwrenching, dark, and powerful,...
House of Stone
AuthorNovuyo Rosa Tshuma
ISBN0393635422
In the chronic turmoil of Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, Abednego and Agnes Mlambo’s teenage son, Bukhosi, has gone missing. Erudite, enigmatic Zamani, their lodger, seems to be their last, best hope for finding him. In his eagerness to help, Zamani is almost a part of the family— but almost isn’t...
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
AuthorLola Shoneyin
ISBN0061946370
African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi’s Wives, a perceptive, entertaining, and eye-opening novel of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. The struggles, rivalries, intricate family politics, and the interplay of personalities and relationships...
An Orchestra of Minorities
AuthorChigozie Obioma
ISBN0316412392
A heart-breaking and mythic story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma.

A contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by the chi, or spirit of a...
The Old Drift
AuthorNamwali Serpell
ISBN1781090491
A Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nation, and of the grand sweep of time

On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the story...
Under the Udala Trees
AuthorChinelo Okparanta
ISBN0544003446
Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.

Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria....
Dust
AuthorYvonne Adhiambo Owuor
ISBN0307961206
From a breathtaking new voice, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya—a story of power and deceit, unrequited love, survival and sacrifice.

Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His grief-stricken sister, Ajany, just returned from Brazil, and...
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