BYL Reading Challenge discussion

Any genre, so long as it is set in an African country

Possibilities:

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Ghana/America)
The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Sudan)
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (Nigeria)

I'm considering Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum by Kennedy Odede & Jessica Posner or Homegoing for this category.

I’m looking at Little Bee by Chris Cleave for this one.

I’m thinking Girl by Edna O’Brien for this one.

Just finished Monique and the Mango Rains, which takes place in Mali and is about a Peace Corp volunteer who befriends the village midwife.

I just finished Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani and I really liked it, but it was a serious, difficult subject matter (terrorism) even if it is a YA book. Highly recommend.

I read My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. It takes place in Nigeria. I gave it 3 stars, so not terrible, but not the best. A quick read though.

Nikki wrote: "I'm considering Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum by Kennedy Odede & Jessica Posner or Homegoing for this category."

Instead I read A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park. It is based on the story of a Lost Boy of Sudan and intertwines with a fictional, but realistic, story of a girl in Sudan in 2009. Highly recommend it!