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Poetry
Questions for Ada
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Love Handles
Puno Selesho
Intwasa Poetry
Various Authors
Beating The Graves
Tsitsi Jaji
Uprooted
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Questions for Ada
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Love Handles
Puno Selesho
Intwasa Poetry
Various Authors
Beating The Graves
Tsitsi Jaji
Uprooted
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Questions for Ada
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Love Handles
Puno Selesho
Intwasa Poetry
Various Authors
Beating The Graves
Tsitsi Jaji
Uprooted
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Questions for Ada
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Love Handles
Puno Selesho
Intwasa Poetry
Various Authors
Beating The Graves
Tsitsi Jaji
Uprooted
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Questions for Ada
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Love Handles
Puno Selesho
Intwasa Poetry
Various Authors
Beating The Graves
Tsitsi Jaji
Uprooted
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Questions for Ada
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Love Handles
Puno Selesho
Intwasa Poetry
Various Authors
Beating The Graves
Tsitsi Jaji
Uprooted
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
2021 Reading List
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
The Lion and The Jewel
Wole Soyinka
When Rain Clouds Gather
Bessie Head
The First Woman
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi
Daring Greatly
Brené Brown
Happiness
Aminatta Forna
Chigozie Obioma
An Orchestra of Minorities
My Sister, The Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Perfect Nine
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Turquoise Dreams - Anthology of short stories
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Intruders
Mohale Mashigo
Love in Colour
Bolu Babalola
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernadine Evaristo
Necessary Endings
Henry Cloud
If You Keep Digging
Keletso Mopai
Collective Amnesia
Koleka Putuma
All About Love
Bell Hooks
Twenty Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing
Various Authors
Brass Neck
Victoria Naa Takia Nunoo
Selected Poems
Gwendolyn Brooks
Nikki Giovanni’s Collected Poetry (1968 -1998)
Nikki Giovanni
Uprooted
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
No Roses From My Mouth
Dr. Stella Nyanzi
Earthling Poems
Alice Walker
Short Stories
Come Write Along (Volume 1)
Bhala Writers
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
Ama Ata Aidoo
The Sex Lives of African Women- Self-Discovery, Freedom and Healing
Nana Darkoa Sekyiama
Bringing Us Back
Mercy Dhliwayo
Happiness, Like Water
Chinelo Okparanta
Come Write Along (Volume 1)
Bhala Writers
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
Ama Ata Aidoo
The Sex Lives of African Women- Self-Discovery, Freedom and Healing
Nana Darkoa Sekyiama
Bringing Us Back
Mercy Dhliwayo
Happiness, Like Water
Chinelo Okparanta
Come Write Along (Volume 1)
Bhala Writers
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
Ama Ata Aidoo
The Sex Lives of African Women- Self-Discovery, Freedom and Healing
Nana Darkoa Sekyiama
Bringing Us Back
Mercy Dhliwayo
Happiness, Like Water
Chinelo Okparanta
Come Write Along (Volume 1)
Bhala Writers
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
Ama Ata Aidoo
The Sex Lives of African Women- Self-Discovery, Freedom and Healing
Nana Darkoa Sekyiama
Bringing Us Back
Mercy Dhliwayo
Happiness, Like Water
Chinelo Okparanta
Come Write Along (Volume 1)
Bhala Writers
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
Ama Ata Aidoo
The Sex Lives of African Women- Self-Discovery, Freedom and Healing
Nana Darkoa Sekyiama
Bringing Us Back
Mercy Dhliwayo
Happiness, Like Water
Chinelo Okparanta
Come Write Along (Volume 1)
Bhala Writers
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
Ama Ata Aidoo
The Sex Lives of African Women- Self-Discovery, Freedom and Healing
Nana Darkoa Sekyiama
Bringing Us Back
Mercy Dhliwayo
Happiness, Like Water
Chinelo Okparanta
Zimbabwean Authors
Broken Roots
Paul Chidyausiku
House of Stone
Novuyo Tshuma
Butterfly Burning
Yvonne Vera
Harvest of Thorns
Shimmer Chinodya
These Bones Will Rise Again
Panashe Chigumadzi
Rainbows in the Dust -
Chenjerai Hove
Red Hills of Home
Chenjerai Hove
The Polygamist
Sue Nyathi
Ask Me Again
Hope Masike
Strife
Shimmer Chinodya
Wounds
Jameson Gadzirai
Jikinya
Geoffrey Ndhlala
Bonds of Love
Hope Dube
She No Longer Weeps
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Waiting for The Rain
Charles Mungoshi
Nehanda
Yvonne Vera
Running With Mother
Christopher Mlalazi
Zenzele A Letter For My Daughter
Nozipo Maraire
Black Sunlight
Dambudzo Marechera
Masimba - Nyaya pfupi dzakanyorwa
Chiedza Musengezi
Ndakakutadzirei
Sharai Mukonoweshuro
Walking Still
Charles Mungoshi
Rurimi Inyoka
Giles Kuimba
Imbwa Nyoro
Renny. M. Mumvuma
The Polygamist
Ndabaningi Sithole
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