: Year-end reading: Five books from a significant twelve months for African writing #IndiaNEWS It has been a great year for African writing, with Tanzania’s Abdulrazak Gurnah winning the 2021 Nobel

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Year-end reading: Five books from a significant twelve months for African writing #IndiaNEWS
It has been a great year for African writing, with Tanzania’s Abdulrazak Gurnah winning the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. South Africa’s Damon Galgut lifted the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Promise and exciting prose continued to sprout. Peter Kimani, leading Kenyan author, journalist and academic, lists his top five picks.Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on EarthWole Soyinka, the great Nigerian poet, playwright, activist and intellectual, released his first novel in nearly 50 years. He chuckled at CNN’s precise figure of 48 years. The title of his latest novel is inspired by a 2011 Gallup poll that listed Nigerians at the top of its annual happiness index, setting Soyinka off in search of utopia in his land of birth.What he finds is a dystopian world inhabited by charlatans masquerading as Christians, young, skilled professionals lured home to perform nefarious acts, others reinventing themselves to survive the vicissitudes of politics. A sweeping satire of a land that Soyinka began to write about over 60 years ago, this is an important addition to his impressive oeuvre.AfterlivesIn this multigenerational historical fiction of Tanganyika in the shadow of German occupation at the turn of the 20th century, the new Nobel laureate for literature presents the stories of individuals caught on both sides of the racial divide.There are the...Read more

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