The 2024 #SomethingBookishReadingChallenge - hosted by lipglossmaffia

A Book By A West African Author
 The countries include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte D'Ivoire(Ivory Coast), Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
 Authors in the diaspora are valid entries. 
All books added
The Teller of Secrets: A Novel by Bisi Adjapon

The Teller of Secrets: A Novel

Bisi Adjapon

11 hours, 14 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

fiction historical emotional reflective medium-paced
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

13 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction dystopian lgbtqia+ literary challenging dark tense medium-paced
Allow Me to Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli

Allow Me to Introduce Myself

Onyi Nwabineli

336 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

433 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Debout-payé by Gauz
Debout-payé
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Gauz

Debout-payé

Gauz

203 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction literary funny reflective fast-paced
We Were Girls Once by Aiwanose Odafen

We Were Girls Once

Aiwanose Odafen

13 hours, 23 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

fiction literary
Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja

Do They Hear You When You Cry

Fauziya Kassindja

544 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging emotional inspiring slow-paced
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

The African Trilogy #1

Chinua Achebe

209 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

fiction classics historical challenging dark reflective medium-paced
Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

Blessings

Chukwuebuka Ibeh

240 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary challenging emotional sad medium-paced
The Sun Sets in Singapore by Kehinde Fadipe

The Sun Sets in Singapore

Kehinde Fadipe

12 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional funny reflective medium-paced