Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald on 21 December, 2022, political correspondent David Crowe describes how he read 52 books from 52 countries in 52 days, including these five African books which remind us of the wealth of African literature were:
Dream in a Time of War by Ngugi wa Tihiong about Kenya under British Rule
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah about ‘an ugly period of colonial Tanzania’
The Return by Hishman Matar about Libya
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Brathwaite about a sociopath in Lagos
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz, set in Cairo in World War I