A Basket of Leaves — Recent African Fiction

Over at WWB, Geoff Wisner, author of the book A Basket of Leaves: 99 Books That Capture the Spirit of Africa, offers a list of new African fiction, by nation. As he notes:

I paid little or no attention to whether the books I chose had been translated, but when it was time for the final tallies I found that about half the books by Africans had been translated from French, Portuguese, or Arabic. (None was originally written in an indigenous language, a fact I’d like to consider in a later post.) Considering that so much of today’s African literature is written in English, and considering the various barriers that prevent us from seeing more of the rest, this seemed like a pretty good showing.

In forthcoming posts, Wisner will be discussing some of the books on his list. Looks good.

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