• The Best African Contemporary Writing - Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
  • The Best African Contemporary Writing - The Land Is Ours: Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
  • The Best African Contemporary Writing - Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa
  • The Best African Contemporary Writing - A Library to Flee by Etienne van Heerden
  • The Best African Contemporary Writing - A General Theory of Oblivion by Daniel Hahn (translator) & José Eduardo Agualusa

The Best African Contemporary Writing, recommended by Mphuthumi Ntabeni

The emphasis in new African writing is away from politics towards how the individual responds to events, says South African novelist Mphuthumi Ntabeni, author of The Broken River Tent and The Wanderers. He picks out five outstanding books of African writing, including novels that paved the way for new genres, a book of short stories from across Africa, and a work of nonfiction that he recommends to “anybody who wants to know what is happening in South Africa.”

  • The Best African Novels - The Famished Road by Ben Okri
  • The Best African Novels - The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
  • The Best African Novels - Burma Boy by Biyi Bandele
  • The Best African Novels - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • The Best African Novels - Opening Spaces: An Anthology of Contemporary African Women's Writing by Yvonne Vera (editor)

The Best African Novels, recommended by Blessing Musariri

“We are connected to the spirit and it’s an active connection. It’s not somewhere that’s only in the afterlife, it’s here in the present as well. That, I think, is endemic across all African cultures and traditions,” says Zimbabwean novelist and poet Blessing Musariri. Here she recommends some of the best African novels, books that had a big personal impact and have stayed with her.

  • The best books on Digital Africa - Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana by Jenna Burrell
  • The best books on Digital Africa - Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent Is Escaping Silicon Valley's Long Shadow by Mark Graham, Michel Wahome & Nicholas Friederici
  • The best books on Digital Africa - China Africa and the Future of the Internet by Iginio Gagliardone
  • The best books on Digital Africa - Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya by Nanjala Nyabola
  • The best books on Digital Africa - Africa's Information Revolution by James Murphy & Padraig Carmody

The best books on Digital Africa, recommended by Mohammad Amir Anwar

The internet and digital technology are transforming not only the way African countries trade and conduct business but also how they cohere socially and politically. Mohammad Amir Anwar, Lecturer in African Studies and International Development at the University of Edinburgh, recommends books that investigate the opportunities for Africa from the growth of technology—but focus on specifics and avoid the hype.