Reading Challenges for Maw Books

African Reading Challenge Participants commit to read - in the course of 2008 - six books that either were written by African writers, take place in Africa, or deal significantly with Africans and African issues. (Read more if you like!)

You can read whatever you want, but of the six books, recommended to have a mixture of genres. For example, fiction (novels, short stories, poetry, drama), memoir / autobiography, history and current events.

I thought I would join this challenge as I’ve already read a few books dealing with Africa this year and I already had a lot of African books on my TBR. Click on the links below to read my reviews.

What is the What by Dave Eggers
Left to Tell: Discovering God Admist the Rwandan Genocide by Immaculee Illibagiza
The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
Slave:  My True Story by Mende Nazer and Damien Lewis
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway
Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle
The Sudan Project:  Rebuilding With the People of Darfur by Melissa Leembruggen
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur by Brian Steidle
Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival by Jen Marlowe
The Leper Compound by Paula Nangle
Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
. . . and if I’m super ambitious Roots by Alex Haley