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African
Fiction & Poetry
Featured books of the month Note: The descriptions of each book were provided
by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and comments from customers.
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Music
by T. Coraghessan Boyle I started reading this book without knowing anything about
it. "An adventure novel", I thought, not very enthusiastic. But, it turned
out to be the best piece of literature ever to come across my hands. It
is incredibly funny, sarcastic and sad. And, the descriptions are so brilliant,
the metaphors so good, that I could almost hear, smell and feel Africa.
Amazon.com Price: $11.16
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Boys : An African Childhood
by Tanure Ojaide This is a coming-of-age self account by Nigerian poet
and literary scholar, Tanure Ojaide in which he recalls his humble but
happy childhood days during the 1950s and 60s in his homeland in the Niger
Delta area of Nigeria. The childhood memoirs portrays the traditional African
setting of pre-colonial times and ponders over the social transformations,
mostly negative, which have since taken place in the country as a result
of "modernization."
bn.com Price: $22.95
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Long a Letter
by Mariama Ba This novel is a perceptive testimony to the plight of
articulate women who live in social milieux dominated by attitudes and
values that deny them their proper place. It is a sequence of reminiscences,
some wistful, some bitter, recounted by a recently widowed Senegalese school
teacher...
bn.com Price: $8.95
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