Reading List

Professor lfi Amadiume's favorites from Africa's top 100 books of the last century:

The African Origins of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop (1967). "Diop teaches that Africa is the mother of the world."

Unity and Struggle by Amilcar Cabral (1979). "A revolutionary leader on the importance of shared traditional African cultures in struggle and nation-building."

So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba (1981). "A novel about marriage in Senegal."

Ake: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka (1981). "A mother looms large in the life and imagination of an African child."