Best books from here?Serious question for people who read. Refrain from meme answers and /pol/tard chimp out.
>>25366688Honestly the only book from Sub-Saharan Africa I’ve read is Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom
bump of interest
Necropolitics
>>25366688I like their music and grapefruits, which, if you define 'literature' broadly enough, is a text. A litre of grapefruit juice will tell you what no script can.
I'd love something historical taking place before colonial period (or even before europeans made contact) or taking place in the myths and folklore.
Teju Cole's "every day is for the thief" is good. I have not read enough from the region to claim it is the "best" though
>>25366688I read Things Fall Apart in high school and liked it. A heavily accented “Okonkwo ate da Kola Nut” because a vocal stim in my English class that year. This was done out of affection and not insult.
>>25366688The Epic of Sunjata is interesting
>>25366688I thought picrel was great. Adolescent girl in 60s Rhodesia tries to get an education so she can escape her parochial, stunted village, gets continually thwarted by her backwards family and racist whites, keeps trying anyway
>>25366688Literally nothing unless you’re an anthropologist studying archaic creation myths or some self-hating liberal faggot who still believes in noble savage nonsense
Rhodesian author Arthur Kemp’s March of the Titans
I havent read anything african, but i have found some interesting authors and books of african diaspora literature.Some interesting writers i have found have been the haitian Anteonor Firmin who elaborated an essay called "The equeality of the human races" in response to Arthur de Gobineau's book and Frantz Fanon, whose books havent read but i have found quotes of them in Fausto Reinaga's book "Revolucion India" like pic rel.
>>25367386I also remember reading some texts of Booker T. Washington that talked about the beahaviour and bio-spirit of the negroe but i lost the text and havent found it.
>>25366688A Bend in the River
>>25367386>>25367393non-fiction is not literature.
This was pretty interesting.
>>25366688>Congo Kitabu - talks about africans enslaving and eating pygmies>ON THE EDGE OF THE PRIMEVAL FOREST - Albert Schweitzer started a hospital and talks about the locals behaviorThere's another one about a black american minister who traveled to sub sahara to start a church. His wife died and the locals burned his church down. Can't remember the name of it, it is on hathitrust
>>25368942None of those are written by africans.
>>25368954OP's post says books from here. It does not say books written by native Africans.
>>25368976Yea bro by "books from Africa" he meant books written by some jew named Schweitzer.
>>25366688A History Of Central Banking And The Enslavement Of Mankind by Stephen Goodson
>two hours and still no good book at sight uh tranny sisters we are revindicating pol
>>25366688I enjoyed Paradise by Gurnah. Wasn't a masterpiece, but interesting and would recommend >>25366904I fucking hated that book, boring flat characters
>>25366688Holistic Management by Allan Savory was interesting
Any good history books on Subsahara Africa? It can be anything from general comprehensive history of the region, one on a specific nation/peoples/culture or during a specific time (e.g. cold war)
>>25369765It also covers North Africa but The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence by Martin Meredith is fantastic. Africa Addio in book form.
>>25366688the only novels I've read from there are Things Fall Apart, Ways of Dying and The House of Hunger but I enjoyed all three, especially the last
>>25369765The Golden Rhinoceros for some lesser known historyWitchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande for a classic of anthropologyDark Continent, My Black Arse for a pretty fun travel book
we had to read "a long way gone" in school back in the day and i recall it being pretty good. id like to revisit it one day
>>25367386>Frantz FanonBasically a black frog. He was from the Antilles and fought in ww2 against Germany and then studied psychoanalysis in France. Of course he complained about racism in France.>>25367393Booker T. Washington is often dismissed because he promoted a developmental approach of integrating blacks into society. That means blacks are at a lesser stage of development and therefore can't have full rights and that gap must be bridged by education
https://www.mybib.africa/im sure you can find something interesting
>>25366688Very fond of Amos Tutuola
>>25366688books are propaganda for white sisies colonialists we don't read in Africa we use the inner traditional knowledge transmitted to us via from our ancestors, your deconstructed almost extinct ass wouldn't understand
>>25366688Lord of the Rings if count Tolkien as african.
probably something about the kongo kingdom of the 1400s, they had a legit civilization with ambassadors who went to europe, they had myths about a lizard creature called mokele mbembe, but you'll probably not find it in english since the kongo only had contact with the portuguese, i don't know why no one ever talks about this kingdom when it comes to african history
Many years ago I made an effort to read a book from every country in the world. Here are some African works (by Africans) that I felt were worth reading: The First Wife - Pauline ChizianeGuardian of the Word - Camara LayeTwo Thousand Seasons - Ayi Kwei Armah (perhaps my favorite on this list)The Parachute Drop - Norbert ZongoThe Epic of Askia MohammadThe Beggar’s Strike - Aminata Sow Fall (I still laugh at the absurdity of this novel’s plot)Allah is Not Obliged - Ahmadou KouroumaBound to Violence - Yambo OuologuemMurder in the Cassava Patch - Bai T Moore (I was told this is a required reading in Liberian high schools)I hesitate to add any more to the list because, to be quite honest, there were a lot of duds too. For example, I mentioned Camara Laye once on this list, but the other works I read by him were really… subpar at best. I hope you enjoy your African literature journey, there are some good works to be found!
>>25366688Ethiopian Bible is its own thing. It has a lot of material not present in other canons.
Heart of Darkness obviously
>>25366904>Things Fall ApartA second for this book.Also, not by an African, but a beautiful book nevertheless is Out of Africa. I also liked Coetzee's Disgrace and Damon Galgut's In a Strange Room.
>>25371133>Ethiopian BibleIs there any particular publication of this which you would recommend? I've looked around online before but a fair few seem dubious in nature, I'm unsure where to start.
>>25366688>>25366852there's a lot of actual old stories that have been preserved and recorded. try classiques africains for west africa and the oxford library of african literature for southern africa. to me that's the real literature of africa, not postcolonial western influenced novels. that's always going to be imitative at best.
>>25369955In that case, if you read The Dance of the Lizard's Tale you will not be disappointed.
>>25371133>>25372193Also that Ethiopian medieval chronicle Kebra nagast, IIRC it has son of king solomon and queen of sheba taking the arc of covenant into Ethiopia. It's apparently pretty good, although it's meme becouse of rastafarians and hoteps/black izraelites and adjacent black cultic milieu movements (but I doubt many of them have actually read it)
>>25366688The only modern literary tradition worth anything from that region is Afrikaaner.
>>25372720Ironically you have not listed any book written by an Afrikaneer, my dear poltard, as such there is no need to disprove your statement for you have done se yourself already.
>>25366688>muh pol, muh memewe've lived in an era for 10 years where nig writers have received worship-level treatment for shitting out anything remotely legible. if there was worthwhile literature out of there, you would never hear the end of it. not to mention that, if you insist on force-reading regions, you already have shit taste
>>25372720I bet you couldn't even name 1 you fucking retard
>>25372770>AfrikaneerIlliterate Zulu>>25372807André Brink
>>25371123Good post anon. Not that I know anything about this topic really, but I appreciate hearing from someone who has delved in.
Does this count? It's from a white dude but he was born in South Rhodesia.Read that as a kid I remember it being quite popular here in Germany for some reason.
>>25366688>>25373242Was gonna say that Mama Ramotswe is the only african book(s) I’ve heard of.Funniest thing is that it’s written by an old white dude
>>25371123Add to that:Ake: Years of Childhood by Basedinka Wole (Nigeria)Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Uganda)Chaka by Thomas Mofolo (Lesotho)A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (Kenya)Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe)
>>25373366And don't forget about I Pray to the Angry God
Eeben Barlow's autobiography, he's a mercenary from South Africa so it's an interesting read.His combat manuals for African countries are also an interesting read from a political viewpoint since it highlights what the problems are from a practical view in African countries.
>>25366688Author was American but this book is KINO, cyberpunk Zimbabwe
>>25366852You can search for African medieval epics. They passed them down orally but they were eventually written down by someone. I think the only written text dating back centuries is Kebra Nagast though which is Ethiopia’s national epic
>>25367016found the /pol/ chimp out
>>25366999>racist whitesfrom the fiction section I see
>>25375878Prove him wrong thenI had a super liberal education and read several books from there and remember absolutely nothing from themThe only African books I got anything from were written by Rhodesians
>>25366688I've only ever read about the wars that happened on this continent.
