Anthem of the Decades – by Mazisi Kunene
Biko – by Donald Woods
Roots – by Alex Haley
Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – by Alexander McCall Smith
Long Walk to Freedom – by Nelson Mandela
Things Fall Apart – by Chinua Achebe
Woman at Point Zero – by Nawal el Sadaawi
Purple Hibiscus + Half of a Yellow Sun – by Chimimanda Adichi Ngozi
Our Sister Killjoy – by Ama Ata Aidoo
Head Above Water – by Buchi Emecheta
The Heart of Redness – by Zakes Mda
You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town/David’s Story/Playing in the Light – by Zoe Wicomb
Mother to Mother – by Sindiwe Magona
Unbowed – by Wangari Maathai
Decolonising the Mind – by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Anthills of the Savannah – by Chinua Achebe
Hero of the Nation – by Henry Masauko Chipembere
Kaffir Boy – by Mark Mathabane
Distant View of a Minaret – by Alifa Rifaat
So Long a Letter – by Mariama Ba
A long way gone – by Ishmael Beah
Song for Night/Becoming Abigail – by Chris Abani
Infidel – by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Desert Flower/Desert Dawn – by Waris Dirie
Born Under the Big Rain – by Fadumo Korn
When Rain Clouds Gather/Maru/A Question of Power – by Bessie Head
Women are Different – by Flora Nwapa
The Stone Virgins – by Yvonne Vera
Call me Woman – by Ellen Kuzwayo
And they didn’t Die – by Lauretta Ngcobo
Maru – by Bessie Head
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature – by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Petals of blood, Weep not child – by Ngungi wa Thiongo
Black Sunlight – by Dambudzo Merachera
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts – by Amos Tutola
Question of Power – by Bessie Head
Their Eyes Were Watching God – by Zora Neal Hurston
Ready For Revolution – by Kwame Ture
Autobiography of Malcolm X – by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
The Making of Black Revolutionaries – by James Forman
Destruction of Black Civilization – by Chancellor Williams
The African Origin of Civilization – by Cheikh Anta Diop
The Isis Papers – by Francess Cress Welsing
The Alchemist – by Paulo Coelho
Dreams From My Father – by Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope – by Barack Obama
Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream – by Barack Obama
The Souls of Black Folk – by W.E.B. Du Bois
O’ Mandingo!: The Only Black at a Dinner Party – by Eric Miyeni
Gerard Sekoto: I Am An African – by Chabani Manganyi
The Good Women of China – by Xinran
Capitalist Nigger – by Chika Onyeani
African love stories – by Ama Ata Aido
Black skin, White masks – by Franz Fanon
Scatter the Ashes and Go, Hyenas – by Mongane Wally Serote
Black God of the Sun – by Ekow Eshun
Mavericks – by Lauren Beukes
Heart of Darkness – by Joseph Conrad
Indaba, My Children, by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
Development as freedom – by Amartya Sen
The Spirit of Intimacy – by Sobonfu E. Some
God’s Bit of Wood, The Money Order with White Genesis – by Ousmane Sembene
Zenzele: A letter for my Daughter – by J. Nozipho Maraire
The Bible
The Land Is Ours: The Political Legacy of Mangaliso Sobukwe – by S.E.M. Pheko
Subukwe and Apartheid – by Benjamin Pogrund
I Write what I like – by Steve Biko
Blues People – by Amiri Baraka
Stolen Legacy – by George G. M. James
Democracy Matters – by Cornel West
Encyclopedia Africana
Speak so You Can Speak Again: The life of Zora Neale Hurston – by Lucy Hurston
SOURCE: Yolanda Sangweni from LIVE FROM THE COAST