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Best books to read after Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
If Achebe's tragedy of Ezeulu and colonial Igboland moved you, these picks span African literature, the tradition of the novel of decolonization, and the broader literary world of which Achebe is the central figure.
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Buy on AmazonThings Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
The essential predecessor — Okonkwo's tragedy in the same Igboland, a generation before Ezeulu's.
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Buy on AmazonNo Longer at Ease
by Chinua Achebe
Okonkwo's grandson in the Lagos civil service — the third generation, the colonial system's product.
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Buy on AmazonA Man of the People
by Chinua Achebe
Achebe's political satire of post-independence Nigeria — the corruption the independence generation produced.
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Weep Not, Child
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
The East African parallel — a Kikuyu boy's childhood and the Mau Mau uprising, the same colonial moment in Kenya.
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A Grain of Wheat
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ's masterpiece — independence day in a Kenyan village, guilt and the legacy of the Emergency.
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Season of Migration to the North
by Tayeb Salih
The Sudanese response to Conrad and European colonialism — Mustafa Sa'eed in London and after.
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Buy on AmazonSo Long a Letter
by Mariama Bâ
The Senegalese feminist classic — an epistolary novel of women's experience in post-independence West Africa.
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Petals of Blood
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ's most ambitious novel — neo-colonial Kenya in the 1970s, a political epic and murder mystery.
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