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The Icarus Girl
Helen Oyeyemi
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano · 1789
A firsthand life narrative crosses the Atlantic, exposing the human machinery of enslavement and the struggle to reclaim authorship of one’s life.
The Interpreters
Wole Soyinka
The January Children
Safia Elhillo
The Joys of Motherhood
Buchi Emecheta
The King of Gollama
Mongo Beti
The Last Flight of the Flamingo
Mia Couto
The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo
Germano Almeida
The Library of the Dead
T. L. Huchu
The Lies of the Ajungo
Moses Ose Utomi
The Living Days
Ananda Devi
The MEN-D Ethical and Epistemological Framework for National Research
Kibavuidi Nsiangani · 2025
A research publication indexed by the Université Simon Kimbangu MEN-D department. Consult the original research page for its abstract, publication status and access.
The Machinery of Capture
Kibavuidi Nsiangani
Capture does not always begin with open violence. It can begin with a contract, a career path, a grant or a relationship that quietly raises the price of saying no. The Machinery of Capture asks how d
The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna
The Memory of the Ogisi
Moses Ose Utomi
The Merciless Ones
Namina Forna
The Meursault Investigation
Kamel Daoud
The Moor's Account
Laila Lalami
The Most Secret Memory of Men
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
The Murders of Molly Southbourne
Tade Thompson
The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle
T. L. Huchu
The Negro
W. E. B. Du Bois
An early history of African peoples and their world, in its original historical context.
The Obelisk Gate
N. K. Jemisin
The Old Drift
Namwali Serpell
The Old Man and the Medal
Ferdinand Oyono
The Oldest Orphan
Tierno Monénembo
The Orchard of Lost Souls
Nadifa Mohamed
The Other Americans
Laila Lalami
The Other Woman
Grace Ogot
The Perfect Nine
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o draws on Gĩkũyũ storytelling traditions to fashion a narrative that moves through family, imagination and the structures of oral epic. Repetition, rhythm and collective memory are ce
The Poor Christ of Bomba
Mongo Beti
The Promised Land
Grace Ogot
The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
Neshani Andreas
The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel
W. E. B. Du Bois · 1911
Bles and Zora meet at the edge of the swamps. Their story of education, intimacy and land exposes the hidden arithmetic of labor, ambition and power.
The Quiet Violence of Dreams
K. Sello Duiker
The Radiance of the King
Camara Laye
The Reactive
Masande Ntshanga
The Red Record
Ida B. Wells-Barnett · 1895
Who counts the lives a society chooses not to count? Wells-Barnett interrogates official explanations of racist violence through evidence, numbers and testimony.
The Return
Hisham Matar
The Return
Jen Thorpe
The Return of the Water Spirit
Pepetela
The Road to the Country
Chigozie Obioma
The Sacred Night
Tahar Ben Jelloun
The Sand Child
Tahar Ben Jelloun
The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez
Sony Lab'ou Tansi
The Shadow King
Maaza Mengiste
The Shadow of Imana
Véronique Tadjo
The Shining Girls
Lauren Beukes
The Silence of the Wilting Skin
Tlotlo Tsamaase
The Society of Reluctant Dreamers
José Eduardo Agualusa
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
A foundational account of African American life, the color line, and double consciousness.
The State Is Not the People
Kibavuidi Nsiangani
Governments speak in the name of nations. But what makes an institution genuinely answerable to the people whose authority it claims? The State Is Not the People begins with that distinction, investig
The Stone Sky
N. K. Jemisin
The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me
Calixthe Beyala
The Suns of Independence
Ahmadou Kourouma
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America
W. E. B. Du Bois · 1896
An archival investigation follows how laws, interests and institutions helped sustain a trade they publicly condemned.
The Things They Buried With the First Wife
Oyelude Jomiloju
The Translator
Leila Aboulela
The Trolling Machine
Kibavuidi Nsiangani
Online harassment seldom consists only of a single offensive message. The Trolling Machine follows the organization of abuse across accounts, platforms and audiences, asking how repetition, amplificat