Explore African literature to enhance your African knowledge

Celebrate Africa Month by reading these collective African literature books by African authors across the continent.

Africa Day is celebrated annually on May 25.

This is to commemorate the founding of the Organisation of African Unity, which was established in the year 1963.

Try one of these books:

• Things Fall Apart by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. A fiction based on the pre-colonial life in the south eastern part of Nigeria.
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The novel is about a young woman who struggles to assert her identity in a patriarchal culture.
• Disgrace by Maxwell Coetzee. This book won the Booker Prize and the author won the Nobel Prize in literature four years after its publication.
• Maru by Bessie Head. This book tackles racism, love and tribal prejudice.
• The Heart of Redness, by Zakes Mda, tells a story of a man who returns from America to his village in the Eastern Cape, the book has received great reviews.
• Welcome to our Hillbrow tackles issues of xenophobia, the Aids pandemic and other challenges faced by South Africans. The book is written by Phaswane Mpe.

These books are educational, offering great teachings about the African continent’s heritage.

Also read: Book review: Lina, the Duiker and the Dragonfly

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