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Review – The Voice by Gabriel Okara: A Classic Example of Nigerian Literature

By: Brian Jungwiwattanaporn

African Women Tell Their Side of the Story: Moving Beyond Africa’s Oral Tradtion

By: Feature Writer Uni Blake

New Books on Africa – Notable Nonfiction in 2009: From South Africa to Sudan, a Range of Current African Issues

By: Cathy Sunshine

'Disgrace' by J.M. Coetzee: A Critical Review of the Booker Prize-Winning Novel (1999)

By: Alexandra Szydlowska

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe: An African Literary Classic

By: Farai Muchemwa

Book Review – Cry, the Beloved Country: Alan Paton’s Classic Tale of the Tragedy of Apartheid

By: Alana Tutwiler

Review of The Thing Around Your Neck: Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie's Book Explores Nigerians at Home & Abroad

By: Kimberly Ward

The Art of Satire– Herman Charles Bosman's Irony: Humour and Social Commentary in “Willem Prinsloo’s Peac

By: Sarah Wild

Book Review – The Thing Around Your Neck: A Collection of Short Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Book Review – The Lying Days by Nadine Gordimer: A Classic Coming-of-Age Novel From South African Writer Gordimer

By: Michelle Bailat-Jones

Review -- The Hunter's Wife by Katherine Scholes: Latest Novel From Popular African/Australian Women’s Fiction Author

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Analysis of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Rewriting Nigerian History Through Literature

By: Feature Writer Jenna Galley

Review: A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn: Australian Author’s Debut Crime Novel Set in 1950s South Africa

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Exploration of the Themes in Bitter Fruit: By African Author Achmat Dangor

By: Eftihia Maria Kougianos

Song of Lawino: Classic African Poetry by Okot p'Bitek

By: Whitney Moore

Changes: A Love Story: An Insightful Novel by Ama Ata Aidoo About African Feminist Issues

By: Linsay Philippe-Auguste

Devil on the Cross: Ngugi’s Damning Portrait of Post-Colonial Kenya

By: Kelley Wadson

Life and Work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o: King of Kenyan Literature

By: Kelley Wadson

The Joys of Motherhood: A Novel By Buchi Emecheta

By: Linsay Philippe-Auguste

Knots: A Novel by Nuruddin Farah: Insight into Grief and Civil War by Somalia's First Novelist

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Rwanda: Land of a Thousand Hills: An African memoir by Rosamond Halsey Carr and Ann Howard Halsey

By: Mary Hiers

Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe's Lament for a Vanishing World

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

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