West Africa

When Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the fate of child soldiers that "everyone in the world should read" (The...

Sozaboy powerfully describes the fate of a young, naive soldier thrown into the frontline of a civil war, from his first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment and horrors that follow. Mene yearns for manhood. He dreams of gaining the glory...

A powerful, heartrending, and insightful novel of a trio of women in Cameroon who dare to rebel against oppressive, long-held cultural traditions—including polygamy and domestic abuse—that define and limit their lives.Three women, three stories, three...

Mariama Bâ’s pioneering debut, So Long a Letter, captures the private lives of women in 1970s Senegal. Recently widowed, Ramatoulaye is required to take sole responsibility for the long mourning process of her late husband. A husband she has not seen in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736395745Author Richard GarteeFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Lake & Emerald PublicationsPublisher Lake & Emerald PublicationsWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955194105Author Rosina AmpahFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Saint Julian Press, Inc.Publisher Saint Julian Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643752846Author Peace Adzo MedieFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643756301Author Peace Adzo MedieFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksWeight(grams) 295g

Part history, part legend, this is the story of Sundiata Keita: the heroic figure who founded the empire of Mali. A thirteenth-century oral epic, Sundiata sees the full-length tale captured in print for the first time. This is Sundiata, the epic tale...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646221585Author Chibundu OnuzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949641356Author Hemley BoumFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Two Lines PressPublisher Two Lines PressWeight(grams) 127g

In this debut novel, Kofi Awoonor brilliantly interweaves poetry and allegory into a profound tale of social corruption in post-colonial Ghana. Rooted in the African oral tradition, This Earth, My Brother paints a picture of post-independent Ghana...

In this debut novel, Kofi Awoonor brilliantly interweaves poetry and allegory into a profound tale of social corruption in post-colonial Ghana. Rooted in the African oral tradition, This Earth, My Brother paints a picture of post-independent Ghana...

Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region. The Clothes of Nakedness cleverly examines the complexities of human relationships, offering a gritty expose of the divide between rich and poor in modern Ghana. Evil...

In this historical novel, Yaw M. Boateng tells the harrowing story of the Atlantic slave trade and the devastating effects it had on the Ashanti Empire. 'This, then, is the story of Seku and Jakpa. But it is also the story of Malaam Fuseini, and of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635423273Author Mohamed Mbougar SarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 556g