Algeria | الدزاير

• An unfinished business / Sansal Boualem (2010)
• Algeria is beautiful like America / Olivia Burton (2018)
• L’étranger (The Stranger, or The Outsider) / Albert Camus (1942)

Angola

• A general theory of oblivion / José Eduardo Agualusa (2016)
• Angola Janga : kingdom of runaway slaves / Marcelo D’Salete (2019)
• Saudade / Suneeta Peres da Costa (2018)

Botswana

• Call and response : stories / Gothataone Moeng (2023)
• Maru / Bessie Head (1971)
• Tales of tenderness and power / Bessie Head (1989)
• Twenty chickens for a saddle / Robyn Scott (2008)

Burkina Faso

• So distant from my life / Monique Ilboudo (2022)

Burundi

• Petit pays / Gaël Faye (2016)

Cabo Verde

• The last will and testament of Señor da Silva / Germano Almeida (2004)

Cameroon | Cameroun

• The impatient / Djaïli Amadou Amal (2022)
• Behold the dreamers / Imbolo Mbue (2016)

Central African Republic | Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka

• A house without windows / Didier Kassaï (2020)

Comoros | Udzima wa Komori

• The African equation / Yasmina Khadra (2015)

Côte d’Ivoire

• Aya (Life in Yop City) / Marguerite Abouet (2008, 2012)
• Akissi (series) / Marguerite Abouet (2018 – 2020)
• Alpha : Abidjan to Gare du Nord / Bessora (2016)
• Allah is not obliged / Ahmadou Kourouma (2006)

Democratic Republic of the Congo | République démocratique du Congo

• City of saints and thieves / Natalie C. Anderson (2017)
• Refugee : a memoir / Emmanuel Mbolela (2021)

Egypt | مصر

• The republic of false truths / ‘Alā’ Aswānī (2021)
• What strange paradise / Omar El Akkad (2021)
• The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk) (The Palace of Desire) (Sugar Street) / Najīb Mahfūz (1990, 1991, 1992)
• The threshold : poems / Īmān Mirsāl (2022)
• Shubeik lubeik / Dīnā Muhammad (2022)

Eritrea | ኤርትራ

• Black foam / Hajjī Jābir (2023)
• The crossing / Manjeet Mann (2021)

Eswatini

• When the ground is hard / Malla Nunn (2019)

Ethiopia | ኢትዮጵያ | Itiyoophiyaa

• The shadow king / Maaza Mengiste (2019)
• All our names / Dinaw Mengestu (2014)
• The history of a difficult child / Mihret Sibhat (2023)

Ghana | Gaana

• Wolf light / Yaba Badoe (2020)
• Nightbloom / Peace Adzo Medie (2023)

Kenya

• Dust / Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (2013)
• The perfect nine : the epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi / Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo (2020)
• How to write about Africa / Binyavanga Wainaina (2022)

Liberia

• And still peace did not come : a memoir of reconciliation / Agnes Kamara-Umunna (2011)
• She would be king / Wayetu Moore (2018)

Libya | ليبيا

• In the country of men / Hisham Matar (2006)
• The Arab of the future / Riad Sattouf (2015)
• Translating Libya: in search of the Libyan short story / Various (2015)

Madagascar | Madagasikara

• Return to the enchanted island / Johary Ravaloson (2019)

Malawi | Malaŵi

• The boy who harnessed the wind / William Kamkwamba (2009)

Mali

• Red mother with child / Lax (2020)
• The treasure of Timbuktu / Umm Nura (2015)

Mauritania | الموريتانية

• Guantánamo diary / Mohamedou Ould Slahi (2015)

Mauritius | Maurice

• The prospector / J.-M G. Le Clézio (1993)

Morocco | المملكة المغربية

• Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 / Ibn Batuta (1355)
• This blinding absence of light / Tahar Ben Jelloun (2002)
• Horses of God / Mahi Binebine (2013)
• The Moor’s account / Laila Lalami (2014)

Mozambique | Moçambique

• Woman of the ashes / Mia Couto (2018)
• Neighbours : the story of a murder / Lilia Momple (2009)

Nigeria | Najeriya | Naìjíríyà

• Say you’re one of them / Uwem Akpan (2008)
• My life as a chameleon / Diana Anyakwo (2023)
• An orchestra of minorities / Chigozie Obioma (2019)
• Akata witch and Akata warrior / Nnedi Okorafor (2011, 2017)
• Oil on water / Habila Helon (2011)
• Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe (1992)

Republic of the Congo | République du Congo

• Black Moses / Alain Mabanckou (2017)

São Tomé and Príncipe

• Equator / Miguel Sousa Tavares (2008)

Sierra Leone

• A long way gone / Ishmael Beah (2007)
• Radiance of tomorrow / Ishmael Beah (2014)

Somalia | Soomaaliya

• Crossbones / Nuruddin Farah (2011)
• Black mamba boy / Nadifa Mohamed (2010)

South Africa | Suid-Afrika | iNingizimu Afrika

• The power of one / Bryce Courtenay (1989)
• African tales : a Barefoot collection / Gcina Mhlophe (2009)
• Journey to Jo’burg / Beverley Naidoo (2008)
• Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood / Trevor Noah (2019)
• The reactive / Masande Ntshanga (2016)
• Spud (The madness continues) (Learning to fly) (Exit, pursued by a bear) / John van de Ruit (2005, 2008, 2009, 2013)
• Nate plus one / Kevin van Whye (2022)

South Sudan

• Beneath the darkening sky / Majok Tulba (2012)
• Songs of a war boy / Deng Thiak Adut (2019)

Sudan | السودان

• Listen, Layla / Yassmin Abdel-Magied (2021)
• Lyrics alley / Leila Aboulela (2010)
• Home is not a country / Safia Elhillo (2021)

Tanzania

• Gravel heart / Abdulrazak Gurnah (2022)
• Golden boy / Tara Sullivan (2013)

Tunisia | تونس

• After the spring / Helene Aldeguer (2019)

Uganda

• The first woman / Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (2020)

Zambia

• The old drift / Namwali Serpell (2020)

Zimbabwe

• Hope is our only wing / Rutendo Tavengerwei (2018)
• Now is the time for running / Michael Williams (2011)
• Diamond boy / Michael Williams (2014)