A panel of scholars and critics met at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair to name the top books of the 20th century form 1,500 nominations. The list is intended to publicize African writers and publishers and "heralds a new millennium for literacy throughout the entire African Continent," said Dr. Adotey Bing, one of the judges. Read story. Here's the list:
Things Fall Apartby Chinua Achebe (1958)
Sosu's Call
by Meshack Asare (1999)
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba (1979)
Terra Sonambula by Mia Couto (1992)
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988)
The African Origins of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop (1955)
Fantasiaby Assia Djebar (1985)
The Cairo Trilogyby Naguib Mahfouz(1945)
Chaka by Thomas Mofolo (1925)
Ake: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka (1981)
A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiongo (1967)
Oeuvre Poetiqueby Leopold Sedar Senghor (1961)
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