Reading lists
EGH464 Contemporary African Literature 2023
EGH464 Contemporary African Literature 2023
Reading List week by week
Reading List week by week
Week 1 Selected short stories & essays
(key text Binyavanga Wainaina, How to Write about Africa, 2022)
Week 2 Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood (1979)
Week 3 Chimamanda Adichie, Americanah (2013)
Week 4 Sulaiman Addonia, Silence is My Mother Tongue (2018)
Week 5 African Cinema (student choice)
Week 6 Damon Galgut, The Promise (2021)
Week 7 READING WEEK
Week 8 Alain Mabanckou, Memoirs of a Porcupine (2006)
Week 9 NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (2013)
Week 10 Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death (2010)