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Author: Samira Sawlani

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Samira Sawlani

Samira Sawlani is a writer and analyst, focused on East Africa. Follow her on twitter at @samirasawlani.

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    African fiction in 2023

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    The best African books of 2022

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    The best African books of 2021

    African writers have outdone themselves again, bringing us literary gems across genres. Here are our 20 top books of the year, in no particular order. The ...
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    The top 20 African books of 2020

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    Best of the 2010s: Novels by African writers

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    November 5, 2019
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    Khartoum’s locally-organised open air film screenings epitomise much about Sudan’s ongoing revolution. This article was made possible by the generous “supporter” subscribers of the Africa Insiders ...
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    The best books by African writers in 2019 so far…

    From evocative prose to moving memoirs and hilarious satire, we bring you some of Africa’s best reads from the first half of 2019: Manchester Happened – ...
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    June 10, 2019
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    Tanzania: The strange and worrying rise of oil-covered rapists in Kigoma

    Scores of women in western Tanzania have been attacked and raped in so-called Teleza attacks. The authorities are doing little to stop them. One night earlier ...
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    Africa’s must-read books of 2018

    This year was full of spectacular fiction, spine-tingling poetry and hard-hitting non-fiction from Africa. Here is some of the best. Fiction Freshwater – by Akwaeke Emezi There ...
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