Fiction
Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister Killjoy, Changes: A Love Story, and No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americannah
Syl Cheney-Coker, The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar and The Sacred River
Teju Cole, Open City
Kwame Dawes, She’s Gone, Bivouac, and A Place to Hide and Other Stories
Omar El Akaad, American War
Athol Fugard, Tsotsi
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
Laila Lalami, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor’s Account, and “How I Became My Mother’s Daughter”
Dinaw Mengestu, All Our Names, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, How to Read the Air
Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, The Book of Phoenix, Lagoon, Binti, Home, the Night Masquerade, and Kabu Kabu
E.C. Osondu, Voice of America and This House is Not for Sale
Taiye Selasi, Ghana Must Go
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Weep Not, Child, The River Between, A Grain of Wheat, Petals of Blood, Devil on the Cross, Matigari, Wizard of the Crow, A meeting in the Dark, and Secret Lives and Other Stories
Poetry
Ama Ata Aidoo, Someone Talking to Sometime, Birds and Other Poems, and An Angry Letter in January
Gabeba Baderoon, A Hundred Silences, The Dream in the Next Body, and The Museum of Ordinary Life
Syl Cheney-Coker, The Road to Jamaica, Concerto for an Exile: Poems, The Graveyard Also Has Teeth, The Blood in the Desert’s Eyes: Poems
Kwame Dawes, Progeny of Air, Resisting the Anomie, Prophets, Jacko Jacobus, Requiem, Shook Foil, Map-Maker, Midland, His New and Selected Poems, 1994–2002, Bruised Totems, I Saw Your Face, Wisteria: Twilight Songs from the Swamp Country, Impossible Flying, Gomer’s Song, Hope’s Hospice, Back of Mount Peace, Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems, Speak from Here to There, and City of Bones: A Testament
Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Beating the Graves
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa, Becoming Ebony, and The River is Rising
Drama
Ama Ata Aidoo, The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa
Danai Gurira, Eclipsed, Familiar, and The Convert
Athol Fugard, Master Harold…and the Boys, The Cell, Blood Knot and Other Plays, Boesman and Lena, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, The Island, The Road to Mecca, The Train Driver, and The Shadow of the Hummingbird
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, The Black Hermit, This Time Tomorrow, The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, and I Will Marry When I Want
Nonfiction/Memoir
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,We Should All Be Feminists
Kwame Dawes, A Far Cry from Plymouth Rock: A Personal Narrative
Danai Gurira, Power of Women: Lupita Nyong’o
Trevor Noah, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary, Dreams in a Time of War: a Childhood Memoir, In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir, Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Memoir of a Writer’s Awakening, Education for a National Culture, Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya, Mother, Sing For Me, Writing against Neo-Colonialism, and Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance
Philippe Wamba, Kinship: A Family’s Journey in Africa and America
Children’s Literature
Ama Ata Aidoo, The Eagle and the Chickens and Other Stories and The Girl Who Can and Other Stories
Baba Wague Diakite, The Hunterman and the Crocodile
Penda Diakite, I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Sylviane A. Diouf, Bintu’s Braids
Nnedi Okorafor, Chicken in the Kitchen and Long Juju Man
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, 8th Grade Super Zero and Two Naomis
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus, Njamba Nene and the Cruel Chief, and Njamba Nene’s Pistol
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, In Monrovia, the River Visits The Sea
Karen Lynn Williams, Khadra Mohammed, and Catherine Stock, My Name is Sangoel
Young Adult Literature
Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch, Akata Warrior, The Shadow Speaker, and Zahrah the Windseeker
Sandra Uwiringiyimana, How Dare the Sun Rise