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What African literature would you recommend?

>> No.16184717

>>16184700
Ten Little Niggers

>> No.16184743
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>Crime Statistics and Punishment
>Ayoo, Where the Little Women At?
>Pride and Prejudice (prejudice against NIGGERS that is)
>Muh Dick, or The Whale
>The Crime Rate Also Rises
>Da Bruthas Karamazov

>> No.16185515

Disgrace by JM Coetzee

>> No.16185519

Shaka

>> No.16185570
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>>16184700
pic rel is something I saved from a knowledgeable anon in a previous thread

>> No.16185590

>>16184700
heart of darkness

>> No.16185707

Africa's World War by Gerard Prunier
or Dancing in the Glory of Monsters

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>>16184743
Don’t worry king, I’ve got the rest.
>>16184700
how could we have forgotten such african literary classics as
>"Ooga Booga, a Snake Bit My Dick!"
>"Where Da White Women At?"
>"The Life and Opinions of Jamal"
>"Chucking Spears: A Step by Step Guide"
>"Black Panther: The Novelization"
>"Nuffin’ and Punishment"
>"Kang Lear"
>"One Hundred Years of Fried Chicken"
>"The Grape Soda of Wrath"
>"A Tale of Two Mudhuts"
>Blood Muhdickian
>A Finna to Arms
>Skin of Darkness
>Da Bruthas Kangazmaov
>Pride and Predjudice (the predjudice part being against NIGGERS that is)
>Annaynay Kareninquanda
>In Search of Lost Crime
>The Scarlet Durag
>Jane AYYO
>Finnegan is Woke
>As I lay Jivin’
>The Great Gatt
>Lolieesha
>Where da Little Wimmin at?
>The Count of MLK Boulevard
>The Incarceration Rate Also Rises
>To the Traphouse
>The Call of my Dealer
>The Wind in The Ghettos
>The Trial (but this time it’s anciry district court and the defendant is BLACK)
>20000 leagues across the Atlantic
>the unbearable aightness of being
>”muhbig dick” or “the jail”
>The Kang in YOLO
>infinite theft
>The Hood trilogy : Negromancer, Caliph Zero, Monaleesha Overdrive
>Ulickdeez
>Steal the tiger
>catch-25-to-life
>To Fry a Chicken-Bird

>> No.16185743

>>16184700
The 1001 Nights of Scheherazade has some African folk stories in it.

>> No.16185814

>>16184700
niggers can write?

>> No.16186130

one of the best novels of the 20th century was written in guinea, "the radiance of the king" by camara laye

truly god-tier, comparable only to the best of kafka, beckett, platonov...

also highly recommend:

salih - season of migration to the north
cesaire - notebook of a return to my native land
ouologuem - bound to violence
eberhardt - oblivion seekers
tutuola - my life in the bush of ghosts
vladislavic - the folly

>> No.16186134

>>16185570
That must be 70 years old or something

>> No.16186139

>>16185722
Based broski to the rescue. Thanks champ.

>> No.16186146

>>16184700
The Epic of Sundiata written by the Mali Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Sundiata

>> No.16186154

>>16186130
>tutuola - my life in the bush of ghosts
Do you know his Palm-Wine Drinkard? I got it but haven't read it yet I can't be bothered with fiction that has no strong philosophical dimension to it so my interests have been strongly narrowed

>> No.16186165

>>16184700
The Akata Witch

>> No.16186187

>>16186154
familiar with it but haven't read

and I think basically all (good) novels have a "philosophical dimension"

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>> No.16186242

>>16185814
This but unironically.

>> No.16186277

>>16184700
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanah

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not even a smidge of irony in saying this book is based

>> No.16186426

>>16186209
>Woman

Yikes

>> No.16186531

>>16185707
>Africa's World War
Is the title self-contradictory on purpose?

>> No.16186647

>>16186154
tutuola's books are legitimately unlike anything i've ever read. such a strange mix of fairy tale craziness but in deadpan plain speech with english as a received language. amazing books, 11/10

>> No.16186738

Wole Söyinka

>> No.16186772

>>16186738
>Sθy

>> No.16186802

>>16186647
i read some of it a while ago and was pretty unimpressed. thought the prose was ugly like a google translation. is it worth powering through? explain why youre so impressed with broken english

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16187787

not literature but theory

>> No.16187857

>>16186647
I don’t like his writing but agree with the rest, Bush of Ghosts is absolutely bizarre in a really cool way. Super wacky while some parts made me uncomfortable in a way that few books have.

>> No.16187882

>>16185722
>Julius Ebola - Steal the Tiger

>> No.16187899

>>16187787
Literally recommending hundreds of pages of nothing. He used "Phenomenology" to mean "assertions without reasons."

>> No.16188010

Season of Migration to the North

>> No.16188041

>>16185570
Interesting how none of them write their books in African languages.

>> No.16188900

>>16184700
H Rider Haggard

>> No.16188936

I'm watching Of Mice and Men and all the racism in this thread would make Steinbeck turn in his grave. Lordy.

>> No.16188969

>>16187787
>theory
stop

>> No.16190153

>>16187787
Fanon isn't theory. He's just pro violence because violence worked for him at the time.