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Njoroge, a boy in colonial Kenya, is the first in his family to go to school, and dreams of education as the Mau Mau rising tears his family apart.
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Nervous Conditions
A Shona girl pursues education in 1960s Rhodesia, confronting colonial and patriarchal barriers.
Paradise
Yusuf, a twelve-year-old boy in East Africa early in the twentieth century, is handed over by his father to the merchant Aziz to pay a debt, and travels with his caravans into the interior.
A Grain of Wheat
In a Kenyan village in the days before independence in 1963, the villagers want to honour Mugo, a quiet man they believe was a hero of the Mau Mau struggle.
Martha Quest
Martha Quest, a restless, bookish girl on a farm in British Central Africa in the 1930s, leaves for the colonial town to find a life of her own.
In the Castle of My Skin
G., a boy growing up in a village in colonial Barbados in the 1930s and 40s, watches the old order of the landlord in the big house start to break.
God's Bits of Wood
In 1947 and 1948 the African workers on the Dakar to Niger railway go on strike against their French employers, and the women of their towns hold the strike together.
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.
Afterlives
In a small town on the East African coast early in the twentieth century, Ilyas, taken from his parents as a boy by the German colonial troops, comes home, and Hamza, a young man who enlisted in the same army, goes off to the First World War.
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.
The Grass Is Singing
In Southern Rhodesia, Mary Turner, a town woman married to a failing farmer, is found murdered on the farm, and the novel goes back to show how she came there.
No Longer at Ease
Obi Okonkwo, grandson of the Okonkwo of Things Fall Apart, comes home to Lagos from England full of ideals, takes a government job and ends up on trial for taking a bribe.
Petals of Blood
Four suspects in a murder reveal the story of a Kenyan village devoured by postcolonial capitalism.