African Literature Book Reading Clubhouse Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

African Literature Book Reading Clubhouse

“Perhaps he was not a true writer after all. He had read somewhere that, for true writers, nothing was more important than their art, not even love.” - Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

African Literature Book Reading Clubhouse

In fact, even if I do sound arrogant, so what? Who will beat me? - Vagabonds! (Eloghosa Osunde)

African Literature Book Reading Clubhouse

“Perhaps we will talk more with time, or perhaps we never will be able to say it all, to clothe things in words, things that have long been naked.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Purple Hibiscus)

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“a little black child fighting in her sleep against an opponent she couldn’t name come morning because in the light that opponent just looked like the world around her. Intangible evil. Unspeakable unfairness.” - Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)

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“Strength cannot always roar, she said that day. Valor does not always shine.” - Children of Blood and Bone (Tomi Adeyemi)

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“It does not matter whether I want to be changed, because I am changed.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Notes on Grief)

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“But I think I did believe that love had immense power to unearth all that was good in us, refine us and reveal to us the better version ourselves” - Stay With Me (Ayobami Adebayo)

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“If you wish to be truly free, you must love no one. But of course if you take that path you may also find that in the end you're unloved.” - Boy, Snow, Bird (Helen Oyeyemi)

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“And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.” - Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

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“I will advise you to wait until you are at least in the university, wait until you own yourself a little more. Do you understand?" "Yes," Ifemelu said. She did not know what "own yourself a little more" meant.” - Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)