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Wim's TBR takedown 2021
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Great! I am looking forward to this challenge and to the exchange as there are already books familiar to me on your list and some that are on my list, too.
This is a very nice list, Wim. I adore The Map of Love. I am planning on reading I do not come to you by chance in 2021 as well.
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Completed my list... I might still change some titles before the start of 2021 :)
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I look at your choices and realise I need to really consider dusting off my French and try reading some of these interesting books.
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Wim wrote: "My April read, number 1, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin, another great novel by an African woman."What did you think of it? I still want to read it later this year.
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I really loved this novel, Carolien. It is funny, original and tragic at the same time.
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Looking forward to read more by Yvonne Vera, starting with Butterfly Burning, number 11 on my TBR list.
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So glad to see you enjoyed The Map of Love. It's up there as one of my all time favourite books, I love it.
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So I decided to read another book on Burkina Faso instead and that will be Manger le pouvoir au Burkina Faso: La noblesse mossi à l'épreuve de l'Histoire.
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Thanks for your review!!We are all positively spoiled by our group read of A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution that definitely raised the bar high for all other history books on West Africa to be read in future :)))
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It is also my number 36 of the 50 books by African women everyone should read. This TBR challenge has allowed me to progress steadily on that list!
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Still a couple of days left before starting the Jan reads, I offered myself a relaxing read: Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor.
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Books mentioned in this topic
Who Fears Death (other topics)Pour l'Afrique, j'accuse: Le journal d'un agronome au Sahel en voie de destruction (Terre humaine : civilisations et sociétés) (other topics)
Pour l'Afrique, j'accuse: Le journal d'un agronome au Sahel en voie de destruction (Terre humaine : civilisations et sociétés) (other topics)
Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria (other topics)
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Nnedi Okorafor (other topics)René Dumont (other topics)
Noo Saro-Wiwa (other topics)
Benoit Beucher (other topics)
Benoit Beucher (other topics)
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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin2. Efuru by Flora Nwapa
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The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif4.
Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa5.
I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani6. In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
7. African Love Stories: An Anthology by Ama Ata Aidoo
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Nehanda by Yvonne Vera9. Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat
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Pour L'afrique, J'accuse: Le Journal D'un Agronome Au Sahel En Voie De Destruction by René Dumont11.
Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera12. Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta
13. The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor by Martin Meredith
14. The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
15. La liberté contre le destin by Thomas Sankara
16. Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Somé - > replaced by Manger le pouvoir au Burkina Faso: La noblesse mossi à l'épreuve de l'Histoire by Benoit Beucher
17. A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara by Amber Murrey
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Aspects De La Civilisation Africain by Amadou Hampâté Bâ19. Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
20. The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga
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De purs hommes by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr22. Le génocide voilé: Enquête historique by Tidiane N'Diaye
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Mandela's Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage by Richard Stengel24.
Il n'y a pas de petite querelle : Nouveaux contes de la savane by Amadou Hampâté Bâ