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Tail of the Blue Bird – an accomplished debut novel by Nii Ayikwei Parkes

"Parkes interweaves passages describing the lush landscapes of northern Ghana into the whodunit style narrative as indication that this is no ordinary tale of crime and detection."

African Library: Little Mother

“Cristina Ali Farah’s fine, moving and exhortatory text exhibits a large talent.”

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives tackles contemporary African culture

With a plot as complex as the one deployed here, one needs to keep one’s wits about one as the secrets alluded to in the title gradually unfold or are suddenly exposed to the reader and to one or other of the characters.

My Mercedes is Bigger than Yours: An exploration of postcolonial society

Published in the Heinemann African Writers Series in 1975, Nkem Nwankwo’s novel succeeded his highly popular first (comic) novel, Dando (1964).

Offspring of Paradise – a text strongly coloured by a young girl's fierce Afro-feminism and proudly Muslim convictions

This powerful novel by a Somali woman presently living in Dubai might be described as a combination of historical novel, sociological study and thriller

African Library: Caught in the storm

Seydou Badian wrote the text under discussion in this issue of The African Library in 1954 – when his country, Mali, was still known as French Sudan – and composed it in French, the language of his colonial education.