Reviews by Author

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This lists alphabetically books reviewed on ImageNations beginning with the author's surname.

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Abrahams, Peter: Mine Boy
Acheampong, Sophia: Growing Yams in London
Acheamong, Sophia: Ipods in Accra

Achebe, Chinua: Anthills of the Savannah

Achebe, Chinua: A Man of the People
Achebe, Chinua: Arrow of God
Achebe, Chinua (Co-Editor): Contemporary African Short Stories
Achebe, Chinua: No Longer At Ease
Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
Achebe, Chinua: The Trouble with Nigeria
Adagha, Ovo: The Plantation
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: Half of a Yellow Sun

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: Purple Hibiscus
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: The Thing Around Your Neck 
Agambila, G.A.: Journey
Agualusa, Jose Eduardo: The Book of Chameleons

Agyei-Agyiri, Alex: Unexpected Joy at Dawn

Aidoo, Ama Ata: Changes
Aidoo, Ama Ata: Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories

Ajumeze, Henry: Dimples on the Sand

Akpan, Uwem: Say You're One of Them
Akpabli, Kofi: A Sense of Savannah: Tales of a Friendly Walk through Northern Ghana
Akpabli, Kofi: Tickling the Ghanaian: Encounters with Contemporary Culture 
Amlani, Alnoor: Soul Safari
Andreas, Neshani: The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
Annan, Kofi: Interventins - a Life in War and Peace
Anyidoho, Kofi: The Place We Call Home and Other Poems
Armah, Ayi Kwei: The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born

Armah, Ayi Kwei: Fragments
Armah, Ayi Kwei: The Healers
Armah, Ayi Kwei: Two Thousand Seasons
Asibon, Aba Amissah: The Lump in Her Throat
Asimov, Isaac: The Foundation Trilogy
Atwood, Margaret: Oryx and Crake

Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid's Tale

Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey

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Bâ, Mariama: So Long a Letter
Baezie, Camynta: African Agenda

Baingana, Doreen: Tropical Fish, Tales from Entebbe

Barris, Ken: The Life of Worm
Beare, Emma (Editor): Speeches that Changed the World
Bedwei, Farid N.: Definition of a Miracle
Biko, Steve: I Writer What I Like
Bolano, Roberto: Last Evenings on Earth
Boudjedra, Rashid: The Repudiation
Brew-Hammond, Nana Ekua: Powder Necklace

Brink, Andre: Praying Mantis

Brink, Andre: Before I Forget
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Bryant, Sarah: Sand Daughter
Busia, Abena P.A.: Traces of a Life: Collection of Elegies and Praise Poems
Byatt, A.S.: Possession

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Canetti, Elias: Auto da Fe
Carey, Peter: Oscar and Lucinda
Carter, Jimmy: Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
Cather, Willa: Death Comes for the Archbishop
Coetzee, J.M.: Duskland

Coetzee, J.M.: In the Heart of the Country
Couto, Mia: Every Man is a Race
Couto, Mia: Voices Made Night
Chikwava, Brian: The Wasp and the Fig Tree
Chikwava, Brian: Harare North
Chinodya, Shimmer: Harvest of Thorns
Chinodya, Shimmer: Dew in the Morning

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Darko, Amma: Faceless

Darko, Amma: Not Without Flowers
Darkoa-Sekyiaman, Nana (Editor): Women Leading Africa - Conversations with Inspirational African Women
Damoah, Nana Awere: Excursions in My Mind

Damoah, Nana Awere: Through the Gates of Thought
Dangarembga, Tsitsi: The Book of Not
Dangarembga, Tsitsi: Nervous Conditions
DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little
Desai, Kiran: The Inheritance of Loss
Dibia, Jude: A Life in Full
Dike, W. Virginia: Birds of Our Land
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment

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Egblewogbe, Martin: Mr. Happy and the Hammer of God

Egblewogbe, Martin (Co-Editor): Look Where You Have Gone to Sit
Ekwensi, Cyprian: Burning Grass
Emecheta, Buchi: The Joys of Motherhood

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Faulkner, William: Absalom, Absalom!
Faulks, Sebastian: Devil May Care
Ferris, Joshua: The Pilot
Fitzgerald, Scott F.: The Great Gatsby
Foer, Jonathan Safran: Here We Aren't, So Quickly
Franzen, Jonathan: The Corrections

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Galchen, Rivka: The Entire Northern Side was Covered with Fire

George Orwell: 1984
Gogol, Nikolai V.: The Government Inspector

Golding, William: Lord of the Flies

Golightly, Walton: AmaZulu

Gordimer, Nadine: Burger's Daughter
Gordimer, Nadine: The Conservationist
Gordimer, Nadine: July's People

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Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Hall, Manly P.: The Secret Destiny of America
Hardy, Thomas: Jude the Obscure

Harruna Attah, Ayesha: Harmattan Rain

Hartmann, W. Ivor (Co-Editor): African Roar 2010 
Hartmann, W. Ivor (Co-Editor): African Roar 2011
Harvey, Joan C. with Cynthia Katz: If I'm So Successful, why do I feel like a Fake, the Impostor Phenomenon

Head, Bessie: A Question of Power
Head, Bessie: A Woman Alone
Head, Bessie: Maru
Heller, Joseph: Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
Henry, Veronica (Editor): Bloodlines 
Heward Mills, Marilyn: Cloth Girl
Hill, Carrick Laban (Co-Editor): Look Where You Have Gone to Sit 
Hosseini, Khaled: The Kite Runner
Hove, Chenjerai: Shadows
Huchu, Tendai: The Hairdresser of Harare
Hughes, Langston: The Best of Simple
Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World

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Innes, C.L. (Co-Editor): Contemporary African Short Stories 

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Kabu, Mamle: The End of Skill
Kabu, Mamle: Mr. Oliver

Kafka, Franz: The Castle
Kahora, Billy: Urban Zoning
Kantai, Parselelo: You Wreck Her

Kenani, Onjezani Stanley: Happy Ending
Kenani, Onjezani Stanley: Love on Trial
Kerouac, Jack: On the Road
Kubuitsile, Laure: In the Spirit of McPhineas Lata
Kwakye, Benjamin: The Clothes of Nakedness
Kwakye, Benjamin: The Other Crucifix

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Laing, Kojo: Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters
Laing, Kojo: Search Sweet Country

Lamwaka, Beatrice: Butterfly Dreams
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
Leonard, Fiona: The Chicken Thief
Levi, Primo: The Periodic Table

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Mahama, John Dramani: My First Coup D'etat - Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa
Maugham, W. Somerset: Theatre
Mabura, Lily: How Shall we Kill the Bishop
Mahama, John Dramani: My First Coup D'etat - Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa
Mahfouz, Naguib: Palace Walk

Mandela, Nelson: No Easy Walk to Freedom

Mapanje, Jack: Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison
Mapanje, Jack (Editor): Gathering Seaweed: Africa Prison Writing
Martel, Yann: Life of Pi
McEwan, Ian: Amsterdam

McEwan, Ian: Atonement
McEwan, Ian: On Chesil Beach
McEwan, Ian: Saturday
Medalie, David: The Mistress's Dog
Mengara, Daniel: Mema
Meyer, Philipp: What do You do Out There, When You're Alone
Mofolo, Thomas: Chaka

Momplé, Lília: Neighbours: The Story of a Murder
Moore, Carlos: Fela, This Bitch of a Life
Morgan, Alistair: Icebergs
Morgan, C.E.: Twins
Morojele, Morabo: How We Buried Puso
Moore, Lorrie (editor): The Best American Short Stories
Morrison, Toni: Beloved
Morrison, Toni: The Bluest Eye
Morrison, Toni: Home

Morrison, Toni: Song of Solomon
Morrison, Toni: Sula
Moyo, Dambisa: Dead Aid - Why Aid Makes Things Worse and How there is a Way for Africa

Munene, Samuel: The David Thuo Show
Myambo, Melissa Tandiwe: La Salle de Départ

Myburgh, Constance: Hunter Emmanuel
Myers, James Robert: Breaking Silence - a Poetic Lifeline from Slavery to Love
Myne Whitman (pseudonym): A Heart to Mend

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Nafisi, Azar: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Naipaul, V.S.: A Bend in the River

Naipaul, V.S.: A House for Mr. Biswas 
wa Ngugi, Mukoma: How Kamau wa Mwangi Escaped into Exile

Nkosi, Lewis: Underground People
Nkrumah, Kwame: Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
NoViolet Bulawayo: Hitting Budapest
Nsengiyunva Nambozo Beverley: Unjumping
Nwokolo, Chuma Jnr.: Diaries of a Dead African
Nwokolo, Chuma Jnr.: The Ghost of Sani Abacha

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Obama, Barack: Dreams from my Father
Okri, Ben: The Famished Road
Okri, Ben: Incidents at the Shrine
Okri, Ben: Infinite Riches

Olofintuade, Ayodele: Eno's Story
Oluoch, Chianga Clifford: Set me Free
Ondaatje, Michael: The English Patient
Osondu, E.C.: Waiting
Oyono, Ferdinand: Houseboy

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Packer, ZZ: Dayward
Pepetela: The Return of the Water Spirit

Parkes, Nii Ayikwei: Tail of the Blue Bird
Pearl, Matthew: The Dante Club
Puzo, Mario: The Godfather

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Quayson, Ato (Editor): Fathers & Daughters - an Anthology of Exploration

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Rifaat, Alifa: Distant View of a Minaret

Ridley, Matt: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Rotimi, Babatunde: Bombay's Republic
Rotimi, Ola: Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again

Rotimi, Ola: The Gods are not to Blame
Rooney, David: Kwame Nkrumah: Vision and Tragedy
Roy, Arundhati: The God of Small Things
Rushdie, Salman: Fury
Rushdie, Salman: Midnight's Children

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El Saadawi, Nawal: Searching

Salih, Tayeb: Season of Migration to the North
Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye

Saramago, Jose: Blindness
Saro-Wiwa, Ken: A Month and a Day & Letters

Schierhout, Gill: Invocations to the Dead
Scibona, Salvatore: The Kid

Shteyngart, Gary: Lenny Hearts Eunice
Sekyi, Kobina: The Blinkards

Serpell, Namwali: Muzungu
Seripe, Vuyo: Almost Cured of Sadness
Sigauke, Emmanuel (Co-Editor): African Roar 2010 

Sigauke, Emmanuel (Co-Editor): African Roar 2011 
Sitawa Namwalie: Cut off My Tongue
Smith, Alex: Soulmates
Smith, Alexander McCall: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Smith, Zadie: White Teeth

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
Soyinka, Wole: Death and the King's Horseman

Soyinka, Wole: The Lion and the Jewel
Soyinka, Wole: Madmen and Specialists
Soyinka, Wole: You Must Set Forth at Dawn
Staunton, Irene (Editor): Writing Free
Sterling, Dorothy: Freedom Train: the Story of Harried Tubman
Sumprim, Alba Kunadu: The Imported Ghanaian
Sun Tzu: The Art of War

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Tadjo, Veronique: The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda

Tadjo, Veronique: As the Crow Flies
Tagwira, Valerie: The Journey
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas: Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
wa Thiong'o, Ngugi: A Grain of Wheat

wa Thiong'o, Ngugi: Matigari
wa Thiong'o, Ngugi: The River Between
wa Thiong'o, Ngugi: Weep Not, Child
wa Thiong'o, Ngugi: Wizard of the Crow
Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace (Volume I, II, III & IV)
Tshumba, Novuyo Rosa: The King and I
Tutuola, Amos: The Palm-Wine Drinkard

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Ulzen, Papa Kobina: Accra! Accra! More Poems About Modern Afrika

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Vonnegut, Kurt: Cat's Cradle

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Watson, Winifred: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Wood, Molara: Indigo
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs Dalloway

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Yvonne Vera: Opening Spaces: an Anthology of Contemporary African Women's Writing

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Zeleza, Tiyambe: Smouldering Charcoal
Zusak, Markus: The Book Thief