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10 best books like Say You're One of Them (Uwem Akpan): Everything Good Will Come, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood, You Must Set Forth at Dawn, Home and Exile, Measuring Time, Happiness, Like Water, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography, The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book

Everything Good Will Come
AuthorSefi Atta
ISBN1844370569
Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule—though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school...
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...
I Do Not Come to You by Chance
AuthorAdaobi Tricia Nwaubani
ISBN1401323111
A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to You by Chance tells the story of one young man and the family who loves him.

Being the opara of the family, Kingsley Ibe is entitled to certain privileges--a piece of meat in his egusi soup, a party to...
Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood
AuthorNega Mezlekia
ISBN0312289146
Winner of the Governor General's Award
A Library Journal Best Book of 2001

Part autobiography and part social history, Notes from the Hyena's Belly offers an unforgettable portrait of Ethiopia, and of Africa, during the 1970s and '80s, an era of civil war, widespread famine, and mass...
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
AuthorWole Soyinka
ISBN0375755144
The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered...
Home and Exile
AuthorChinua Achebe
ISBN1841953857
'The Empire Writes Back' would have been a fitting alternative title for this essay collection. (Achebe doesn't fail to pay a tribute to Salman Rushdie's essay of the same name published in 1982). Because that is what the running theme here is - a reclamation of a land and a culture that was wrested away...
Measuring Time
AuthorHelon Habila
ISBN0393052516
Mamo and LaMamo are twin brothers living in the small Nigerian village of Keti, where their domineering father controls their lives. With high hopes the twins attempt to flee from home, but only LaMamo escapes successfully and is able to live their dream of becoming a soldier who meets beautiful women....
Happiness, Like Water
AuthorChinelo Okparanta
ISBN0544003454
Here are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, the burden and strength of love. Here are characters faced with dangerous decisions, children slick with oil from the river, a...
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
AuthorSidney Poitier
ISBN0061357901
In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career.  His body of work is arguable the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Here, Sidney...
The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book
AuthorBill Cosby
ISBN0590956175
[Scholastic Readers Level 3]

This easy-to-read story about friendship by comedian and storyteller Bill Cosby is now a Scholastic Reader!
Little Bill and his friends LOVE the TV show Space Explorers. And so when the new Space Explorers video game comes out, they each want a copy.
But...
Osprey Island
AuthorThisbe Nissen
ISBN0385720629
As summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island’s one and only hotel — are underway for the busy season. On maintenance and housekeeping there’s Lance and Lorna Squire, Osprey locals and raging drinkers; and their irrepressible son Squee. There are college boys to...
Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing
AuthorRob Spillman
ISBN0143114735
A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature

Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking...
The Prophet of Zongo Street: Stories
AuthorMohammed Naseehu Ali
ISBN0060887508
A dazzling collection of stories, The Prophet of Zongo Street takes readers to a world that seamlessly blends African folklore and myths with modernity. Set primarily on Zongo Street, a fictitious community in West Africa, the stories -- which are reminiscent of the works of Ben Okri and Amos Tutuola...
Acts of Faith
AuthorPhilip Caputo
ISBN0375725970
Philip Caputo’s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness. There’s the...
An Elegy for Easterly: Stories
AuthorPetina Gappah
ISBN0865479062
A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his new job making coffins at No Matter Funeral Parlor brings unexpected riches; a politician’s widow stands quietly by at her husband’s funeral, watching his colleagues...
GraceLand
AuthorChris Abani
ISBN0312425287
This novel is set in Maroko, a sprawling, swampy, crazy and colorful ghetto of Lagos, Nigeria, and unfolds against a backdrop of lush reggae and highlife music, American movies and a harsh urban existence. Elvis Oke, a teenage Elvis impersonator spurred on by the triumphs of heroes in the American movies...
Agaat
AuthorMarlene van Niekerk
ISBN0982503091
Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique relationship between Milla, a 67-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. Through flashbacks and diary entries, the reader learns about Milla's past. Life for white farmers in 1950s South Africa was full of...
Ancestor Stones
AuthorAminatta Forna
ISBN0871139448
A powerful, sensuously written novel that, through the lives of women, beautifully captures Africa’s past and present, and the legacy that her daughters take with them wherever they live.

From the author of The Devil That Danced on the Water - a timeless portrait of the lives of a family of...
Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
AuthorDavid Anderson
In "a gripping narrative that is all but impossible to put down" (Joseph C. Miller), Histories of the Hanged exposes the long-hidden colonial crimes of the British in Kenya. This groundbreaking work tells how the brutal war between the colonial government and the insurrectionist Mau Mau between 1952...
All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo
AuthorBryan Mealer
ISBN1596913452
In 1996, the fighting in Rwanda spilled over the Congolese border, sparking a conflict that would eventually claim more lives than any other since the Second World War. In the course of his three years as a reporter in Congo, Bryan Mealer was the witness often the only witness to almost unimaginable scenes:...
AMA
AuthorManu Herbstein
ISBN1585869325
This is the kind of book I wish they had six stars for. I picked this up in a book store on the way to visit Mandela's prison on Robben Island. My version, published by Picador Africa, would have never found its way to my hands if I hadn't been there. And I sincerely believe my life would have been a tad less rich...
The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones
AuthorJohn Rucyahana
ISBN0849900522
In 1994, as his country descended into the madness of genocide, Anglican Bishop John Rucyahana underwent the mind-numbing pain of having members of his church and family butchered. John refused to become a part of the systemic hatred. He founded the Sonrise orphanage and school for children orphaned...
First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army
AuthorPeter Eichstaedt
ISBN1556527993
“Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls.  He was ordered to do this by a unit commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group that...
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