A Good Man in Africa is William Boyd's first novel, published in 1981. It won both the Whitbread Book Award for a first novel and the Somerset Maugham...
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A Good Man in Africa is a 1994 comedy-drama film, based on William Boyd's 1981 novel A Good Man in Africa and directed by Bruce Beresford. The film starred...
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Good Doctor focuses on one doctor's struggle with his conscience in a rural hospital in post-apartheid South Africa. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker...
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Man on Fire is a 1980 thriller novel by the English novelist Philip Nicholson, writing as A. J. Quinnell. The plot features his popular character Creasy...
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Things Fall Apart (redirect from Things Fall Apart (novel))
is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and is widely studied in English-speaking countries around the world. The novel was first published in the...
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William Boyd (writer) (category British expatriates in Nigeria)
and it was while he was there that his first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), was published. He was also a television critic for the New Statesman between...
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The Empty Man is a 2020 supernatural horror film written and directed by David Prior in his feature directorial debut, based on Cullen Bunn and Vanesa...
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King Solomon's Mines (redirect from Captain john good)
English adventure novels set in Africa and is considered to be the genesis of the lost world literary genre. It is the first of fourteen novels and four short...
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Everything Good Will Come is a coming-of-age novel by Nigerian author Sefi Atta about a girl growing into a woman in postcolonial Nigeria and England...
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The Power of One is a novel by South African born, Australian author Bryce Courtenay, first published in 1989. Set in South Africa during the 1930s and...
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A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. The novel, telling the story of Salim, a merchant in post-colonial mid-20th century...
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Donald Goines (redirect from Swamp Man (novel))
1974) was an African-American writer of urban fiction. His novels were deeply influenced by the work of Iceberg Slim. Goines was born in Detroit, Michigan...
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Old Man and the Medal (Le vieux nègre et la médaille) is a 1956 postcolonial novel by Cameroonian diplomat and writer Ferdinand Oyono. The novel was translated...
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James McBride (writer) (category 20th-century African-American people)
for fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird. McBride's father, Rev. Andrew D. McBride (August 8, 1911 – April 5, 1957) was African-American; he died of...
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Published by Molly Keane in 1981, Good Behaviour tells a story of Irish society in the early twentieth century. Narrated by the daughter of the St. Charles...
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office. The novel continues from this point mainly as a dialogue between Ishmael and his new student. Ishmael's life began in the African wilderness,...
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Allan Quatermain (category Novels set in Africa)
father, a Christian missionary. In the earliest-written novels, native Africans refer to Quatermain as Macumazahn, meaning "Watcher-by-Night," a reference...
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The Courtney Novels are a series of seventeen novels published between 1964 and 2019 by Wilbur Smith. They chronicle the lives of the Courtney family...
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Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional...
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African literature is literature from Africa, either oral ("orature") or written in African and Afro-Asiatic languages. Examples of pre-colonial African...
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is a philosophical novel by Albert Camus. First published in 1956, it is his last complete work of fiction. Set in Amsterdam, The Fall consists of a series...
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William Winwood Reade (redirect from The Martyrdom of Man)
was a British historian, explorer, novelist and philosopher. His two best-known books, the universal history The Martyrdom of Man (1872) and the novel The...
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Small Great Things (redirect from Small Great Things (a novel))
Things is being adapted into a film starring Viola Davis and Julia Roberts. This is Picoult's first novel with an African American protagonist. The story...
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Robert Ruark (section African safari)
novel drew from the author's personal knowledge and experiences on safari in Africa, and was adapted into a 1957 film, Something of Value. Uhuru, a novel...
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Purple Hibiscus (redirect from Purple Hibiscus (novel))
Hibiscus is a novel written by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Her debut novel, it was first published by Algonquin Books in October of 2003...
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Shaft in Africa is a 1973 American blaxploitation film directed by John Guillermin, and the third film of the Shaft series, starring Richard Roundtree...
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Wilbur Smith (redirect from War Cry (novel))
was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across...
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Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made...
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Abuddin: A Middle East country in the series Tyrant Aburĩria, Free Republic of: African country ruled by a dictator known only as the "Ruler" in the novel Wizard...
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John Shaft (redirect from Shaft (novel series))
John Shaft is a fictional private investigator created by author/screenwriter Ernest Tidyman for the 1970 novel of the same name. He was portrayed by...
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