Great African Reads discussion

Are you up for a Bingo challenge?
The rules are simple: You can go for one row, two rows, three rows or a full Bingo card - you decide. You can use books you are reading for other challenges, but not the same book twice for the bingo. (Challenge runs from today to the end of 2019)
Set up a discussion with your book list in this folder - and declare how many rows you aim for.
This thread is for general discussion of the challenge, possible books etc. Have fun!

Here's a list, if you want to copy it to keep track of your own challenge. Or if you want the image - copy this code (img src="https://images.gr-assets.com/photos/1..." alt="bingo challenge"/) and change the parentheses to sharp < brackets.

French speaking Africa
Red cover
Published Before 1969
Female Protagonist
A book about Love
Published After 2000
Free Choice (you pick any African read)
Portuguese speaking Africa
A Book by a Caine Prize winner
A book about War
Animal In The Title
A Regional Group Read
A Group Read Short Story
A Debut
An Award Winner/A Shortlisted Book
Written in an African Language

PS: For the language categories you can off course read them in any translation you prefer :)

Dear all
I am putting together a new bingo for next year - so if you have any suggestions and ideas, please tell me here!

A book by a female African author

Great that you are putting together another bingo next year Anetq. Will definitely participate in it again.

I enjoyed all of this year's prompts so I wouldnt' mind some of them being repeated next year. But here are some suggestions for other prompts:
- A non-fiction by an African author
- Book published by a small/indie press
- A historical fiction by an African author
- Book pubished in the 1970s
- Book by author from country X (we could select a country through a random generator)
- Book about migration/displacement

It would be nice to see a book by a new author under 30s

*Book from the African Writers Series
*Award-winning book
*Book >500 pages
*Continue with Francophone and Lusophone Africa, but maybe add translations from Arabic, Spanish, and/or Afrikaans
*Mystery
*Book from 50 African Women List

All good ideas, thank you! - I'll put it together soon! Last minute suggestions are still welcome :)

Book that forms part of a series

Thank you all for the suggestions - I've managed to get quite a few of them in there in one form or another - please join the 2020 bingo here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

And if one of you categories is missing, feel free to include it as your Free Choice square! Wishing you a happy new year and lots of fun with the challenge :)