Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

By
Dipo Faloyin
Dipo Faloyin
2022 • 400 pages

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38 books

Libya

Daren
Daren
Bagpipes in Babylon: A Lifetime in the Arab World and Beyond
Children of Allah: Between the Sea and Sahara
The Search for the Niger
Middle East Journey
Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East
The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara
The quest for Timbuctoo

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9 books

South Sudan

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Daren
Walking the Nile
Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
The White Nile
Old Serpent Nile : A Journey to the Source
No Room in the Ark
The Scarification: The Facial Scarification in South Sudan
A Talent For Trouble

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19 books

Ghana

Daren
Daren
Forest of Memories
A View of the World: Selected Journalism
Travels in the White Man's Grave
Ulendo
Four Guineas
Travels Through the Third World
Anywhere But Here

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23 books

Zambia

Daren
Daren
A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales
Africa on a Tightrope
Off the Rails
Zambezi: Journey of a River
King Solomon's Mines
Black elephant hunter
The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe

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14 books

Rwanda

Daren
Daren
The Seven Mountain-Travel Books
Walking the Nile
Ascend The Nile - A Kiwi-Brit Journey of Discovery, Adventure & Tragedy
Beyond the Devil's Teeth : Journeys in Gondwanaland
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
My Heroes: Extraordinary Courage, Exceptional People
Pecked To Death By Ducks

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19 books

Botswana

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Daren
The Lost World of the Kalahari
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Tears of the Giraffe
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Zambezi: Journey of a River
Travel & Adventure in South East Africa
The Thirsty Land

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3 books

Equatorial Guinea

Daren
Daren
Anywhere But Here
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa

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50 books

2024

KekeNoel
Jacky
The Priory of the Orange Tree
A Court of Frost and Starlight
People We Meet on Vacation
Happy Place
Book Lovers
A ​Court of Silver Flames
A Court of Wings and Ruin

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161 books

Authors Of Color

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Susan Scribner
Transcendent Kingdom
Caste
Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Here to Stay
The Vanishing Half
Picture Us in the Light
I'd Give Anything

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77 books

History Biography

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Susan Scribner
American Heiress
The Wright Brothers
The Devil in the White City
When Books Went to War
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Bitter Brew
Unbroken

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78 books

Non Fiction

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Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Moneyball
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
I Wear the Black Hat

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65 books

2023

Elizajworley
Elizabeth
Before You Knew My Name
People Person
The American Roommate Experiment
Lessons in Chemistry
The Art of Mindful Living
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

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241 books

Africana

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Geir
Discourse on Colonialism
The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
Critique of Black Reason
On the postcolony
The Wretched of the Earth
Decolonising the Mind
State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic

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126 books

Socio Hist

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A People's History of the United States
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
A Problem from Hell
The Day Michael Collins was Shot
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
The End of Policing

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434 books

Faction

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Geir
A Pilgrimage to Eternity
We Should All Be Feminists
Hersketeknikker: Nyttige og nådeløse
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
God, Human, Animal, Machine

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237 books

Leseliste

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Geir
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Year of the Monkey
The Ongoing Moment
The Communist Manifesto
A Long Way Gone: The True Story Of A Child Soldier
Off The Map

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168 books

Atbr

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M
13 Little Blue Envelopes
A Clash of Kings
A Game of Thrones
A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
From Blood and Ash
The ​Crown of Gilded Bones
The War of Two Queens

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187 books

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Nonficnov 2022

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