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Heading off for an extended tour of Africa. Need Africa-themed reading materials, both fiction and non-.

>> No.3713924

Things Fall Apart

It's quite literally the only thing I got for ya.

>> No.3713942

What part of Africa? Don't Orientalize it. Egypt is a very different place than SA.

>> No.3713954

>>3713883

"Cecil Rhodes: Man and Empire-Maker" by Princess Catherine Radziwill

>> No.3713955

>>3713883

Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton

African lit is a weak point in my knowledge

>> No.3713962

>>3713942
South and East Africa.

>> No.3713964

>>3713954

Oh very much fucking THIS!

>> No.3713972

Heart of Darkness.

>> No.3714058

>>3713972

It's not really the right part of Africa, but it's so damn good it doesn't matter

>> No.3714095

Out of Africa by Karen Blixen

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This is the best you can do /lit/?

>> No.3715502

>>3713883
Les Animaux Dénaturés (You Shall Know Them)
by Vercors.

>> No.3715515

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achibe

>> No.3715551
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Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard

Copperplate related.

>> No.3715582

>everybody saying Things Fall Apart
Anthills of the Savannah, OP.

>> No.3715586

>>3713962
>South
J.M. Coetzee would obviously be a good go-to.

>> No.3716156

thanks all

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>> No.3716441

>>3713972
This

>> No.3716480

Found this a while back:
http://web.udl.es/usuaris/m0163949/literary.htm
Seems to be solid, if sometimes listing authors and books that aren't the easiest to get hold of.

>> No.3716838

Long Walk to Freedom isn't a bad read, if you can get past the fact it's pretty much outright propaganda
Woman at Point Zero is alright, given that most of you don't have a problem with feminism
I don't know of any others

>> No.3716849

>>3713962

Enjoy your AIDs.

All kidding aside, I honestly have nothing to recommend in the way of literature.

However you should watch Long Way Down. Ewan McGregor did a motorcycle tour of Africa and filmed it. Do it.

>> No.3716864

>>3713883
Moses Isegawa?

>> No.3716902

>>3713924
Seriously, this, it's damn good.

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>> No.3716936

Snows of Kilamanjaro
Heart of Darkness
lel

>> No.3716939

>>3716340
I've read King Leopold's Ghost, is this a retread?

>> No.3716949

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
and of course Things Fall Apart is a must

>> No.3716961

>>3716849
Yes, a millionaire with an entourage / support team who speeds past everything on a highway on a giant 30-thousand dollar motorcycle will be very applicable to me alone with a backpack delirious with malaria trying not to be bumraped. Will watch.

>> No.3716971

Seems like everything posted is from West Africa (mostly Nigeria).

>> No.3717064

L'Étranger

Je t'en prie

>> No.3717412

>blacks
>literacy

>> No.3717435

>>3717412
lol enjoy ur ban

>> No.3717543

>>3716971
>Seems like everything posted is from West Africa (mostly Nigeria).

>>3713954
Rhodesia

>>3713955
South Africa

>>3713972
Congo

>>3716864
Uganda

>>3716916
Sudan