Chinongwa
by Lucy Michot
In the village where Chinongwa lives, her family, displaced from their lands, are very poor. One desperate solution to hunger is to trade young daughters into marriage. A riveting and […]
Coconut
by Kopano Matlwa
A brutally honest literary representation of the black experience in the post apartheid South Africa. Coconut is about growing up black in white suburbs, where the cost of fitting in […]
Stay With Me
by Ayobami Adebayo
Stay With Me’ Blends The Personal And The Political Ayobami Adebayo’s debut novel follows a young Nigerian couple struggling to conceive and caught between modern medicine and the traditional remedies […]
Patchwork
by Ellen Banda-Aaku
Destined from birth to inhabit two very different worlds – that of her father, the wealthy Joseph Sakavungo, and that of her mother, his mistress – this emotive tale takes […]
The Polygamist
by Sue Nyathi
The Polygamist weaves a tale of four women whose lives become intertwined when they all fall for a wealthy banking magnate Jonasi Gomora. Set in modern-day Zimbabwe, the story is […]
A Family Affair
by Sue Nyathi
Nyathi tells the tale of an unravelling family torn apart by terrible secrets. The Mafus, a close-knit, traditional family with three daughters. As leaders of their church, The Kingdom of […]
Nervous Conditions
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Nervous Conditions tells the story of a Rhodesian girl’s journey in pursuit of education from impoverished homestead to missionary school and finally to private Catholic school.deals with the themes of […]
London, Cape Town, Joburg
by Zukiswa Wanner
Set in three cities at three very different moments in our recent history, “London, Cape Town, Joburg” is the story not just of Germaine, Michael and their son Zuko, but […]
Behold the Dreamer
by Imbolo Mbue
Behold the Dreamers is the 2016 debut novel by Imbolo Mbue. The novel details the experiences of two New York City families during the 2008 financial crisis: an immigrant family […]
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi, is a historical novel that traces the descendants of two half sisters Effia and Esi, born into different villages in Ghana. The sisters’ lives follow different […]
