10 Contemporary African Authors

Lauren Beukes Lauren Beukes is a South African author who is popularly known for her 2010 award winning novel ‘Zoo City’ which was described by the New York Times as ‘an energetic phantasmagorical noir’. She also won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle and was long-listed for the IMPAC Award. ‘Zoo […]

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3 Books by African Authors to Have on Your Reading List

The Curious Case of Dasso by Fouad LarouiPublisher: Paperback (June 28, 2016) The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers humorously explores the realism of life in a world where everything is foreign, in a reflecting of unique short stories told by a group of men sitting at a café in Morocco. The author uses comical absurdity to make […]

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Quiet Time: Authors To Add To Your African Reading List

African literature has existed in the realms of African storytellers for several centuries. With the kind distortion brought by globalisation, there also came with it an opportunity to have an accessibility of other cultures and their ways of life, and African literature has immersed itself in this spirit. The Fishermen by Chigozie ObiomaPublisher: Little, Brown […]

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