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Askar, an orphan raised by Misra, an Ethiopian woman in the Ogaden, grows up as war comes between Somalia and Ethiopia, and between him and the woman who raised him.
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Ambiguous Adventure
Samba Diallo, a boy of the Diallobé nobility raised in a strict Quranic school, is sent to the French school and then to Paris, and finds himself caught between two worlds.
Burger's Daughter
Rosa Burger, whose father, a white Afrikaner communist, has died in prison, tries to find out whether she can live a life of her own outside the struggle.
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
A nameless railway clerk resists corruption in post-independence Ghana.
Sankofa
Anna Bain, a mixed-race woman in London whose marriage has ended and whose mother has just died, finds her mother's old diary and learns that her father was a West African student who went on to rule his country.
Gravel Heart
Salim grows up in Zanzibar in the 1970s, puzzled that his father has moved out of the family home, and is sent to study in London, where he lives with his uncle.
Swing Time
Two mixed-race girls from a London housing estate who meet at a dance class take different paths, one a talented dancer, the other an assistant to a global pop star, in a novel about race, talent and envy.
The Shadow Lines
A boy growing up in Calcutta pieces together the lives of his family across Calcutta, Dhaka and London, and a death in a riot in 1964.
Petals of Blood
Four suspects in a murder reveal the story of a Kenyan village devoured by postcolonial capitalism.
The Acacia
Simon interweaves his father's death in the First World War, his widowed mother's search for the grave and his own experience as a cavalryman in 1940.
Onitsha
In 1948, twelve-year-old Fintan sails with his Italian mother from France to join the English father he has never met in Onitsha, a trading town on the Niger.
Sleepwalking Land
During Mozambique's civil war, an old man, Tuahir, and a boy, Muidinga, take shelter in a burnt-out bus, where the boy finds the notebooks of a dead man, Kindzu, and reads them aloud.
The Golden Notebook
Anna Wulf, a blocked novelist in 1950s London, keeps four notebooks for the parts of her life, black for Africa, red for politics, yellow for fiction and blue for daily life, and tries to bring them together in a fifth.