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I read Chinua Achebe's things fall apart over 10 years ago. Its still in my head😁

Absolutely spot on. Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka have to be in the top 3 while Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie must be in the top 10. Nigeria 🇳🇬 we hail thee

Chinua Achebe and ngugi wa thio'ngo are very influencial writers in the history

I like African Novels ..the culture my favorite Chinua achebe..things fall apart 👐🏾

Im doing English literature in university...just the other day i was telling a friend that the reason we fail so much is that we cannot relate culturally to Western novels and stories...i mean if i had to write an essay on Chinua Achebe's things fall apart i think ill do a perfect job but no im forced to do Great Expectations... #DecolonizeEducationNow ✊

Please do a top 10 African Novels by African authors for 2018.

Nigeria will always be the best when it comes to writing am glad about this I'm proudly a Nigerian...

African books are life😭😭can't live without them😍😍❤

I am an Indian girl and I really love chinua Achebe books as it is in our syllabus I used to see my teacher teaches it as a film it seems I really like that feeling And i really love Africans And I do have a African friends

Chimamanda and Chinua Achebe are my favourites 🙌🏾🇳🇬

Proudly African

Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa thiong'o are my best writers

As far as Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka are 1 and 2 this list is authentic.

Dr. Ayi Kwai Armah🇬🇭❤✊🏾

Achebe & Soyinka & Ngugi are the most known authors in Africa 🔥

Africans are still as sleep when chinu Achebe wrote things fall apart... I love Nigeria 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 African best author

"THINGS FALL APART" Chinua Achebe,,, it has been many years since I read 📚 it. I knew he would be famous from then. A great work! No doubt.

I can’t believe you forgot to mention the most well known African writers such as Nurradin Farah from Somalia and also Shiekh Anta Diop From Senegal.... these men have won so many awards and compliments around the world!

All things fall apart, the beautiful ones are not yet born.. My favorites back in middle school in South Africa

I have visited Africa several times for evangelism. Some of my congregation were beginning to form reading groups to discuss books by Chinua Achebe, etc, and that is really good for their English. I have read only one book: the Bible :-). I have subscribed.

Read three of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’ s books & she is by far one of the greatest writers I have come across. Achebe’s book “All Things Fall Apart” is so profound and timeless. It’s a subtle didactic approach to how Africans and those living in the diaspora communities, should know and understand history. For what we were introduced to was not original to our beliefs...

Proud to see Ghana's Dr. Ayi Kwei Armah, one of the tallest on the literary horizon🇬🇭✌😍

You should take that white lady off and add Jaramogi oginga Odinga for the book Not yet Uhuru(freedom)

Mr Achebe thing fall part

This is the sort of top ten list we should portray more about Afrika....writers are thinkers and revolutionaries who could shape our societies.

Great, great....Arthur's I have never heard about, I'm not of the African diaspora, this is great, it's imperative for us to have our Arthur's book out in the world, to tear those narrative apart and kill them with truth...(history)...

My best book by Chinua Achebe is Anthills Of Savannah.

Chinua achebe 😊😊😊🇺🇬 things fall apart

You should have added honourable mentions for authors who didn't make the top 10 list but are still good e.g. Zakes Mda from South Africa

Chinue Achube is an international influencer, he is hero for all African writers. We showed the whites that we can to do better then them. I like his creativity and imagination. I shall meet to him one time Insha Allah. May Allah give him good heath and good life.

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Good list learnt about some new writers

Couldn't agree with you more ... much love and respect to our authors.

U forget nuuradin farah from Somalia 🇸🇴

Great list

Keep doing the good work.

African philosophers I like it keep on going harder than that I wish all Africa be like this 🤔🤷🏽‍♂️

I can't help myself from thinking that this classification is bias. Cause you guys enlisted only one writer from francophone Africa. I read in French as well as in English. I adore Chimamanda's work of which I've read Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah and Purple Hibiscus. Achebe is a master when it comes to writing we all agree on that. Things fall Apart is my best of his works but I've also read There was a Country. I also like Woke Soyinka's The Lion and the jewel.

The Cameroonian Mongo Befi belongs to this group. James Ngugi should be third. Much luv

Wole Sonyika's hair😩😍

I Favor , like and love this. All the way to the top my Great African Authors.

Things fall apart... By chinu Achebe... Covers the whole of Africa... Including Europe.... Proudly Nigerian 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

Love this list ❤️

..for all you who wish to read a n intriguing love &mystery story in pre-colonial African village setting,will absolutely love Elechi Amadi’s ‘The Concubine’ .

Thank you very much !

The only three you got right are..Chinua ,Ngugi wathiongo and Wole Soyinka.The rest are still in their literature diapers,your list has left real giants of African literature and that's a clear indicator you're new and still learning African literature.Keep trying the good work.

I wish, we could write more about our African culture especially moral values that are a foundation of our existence to date.

Excellent. thank you.

You slipped a Caucasian in. It was ok but and invaded who wrote on what their people has set up and doing to the people they invaded don't make them your people or the people of the land.

Thank you for this video🩷

Ayi Kwei Armah is my favorite, but seriously, what of Ousmane Sembene? Then there’s Mariama Ba and Buchi Emecheta. !!!

I am a Sierra Leonean but Achebe is the best. His book, things fall apart is an inspiration to modern African literature

I need to read a book by Wole Soyinka😭🇳🇬

Here we go again! Fighting over... nothing! Why don't we keep it positive, huh? Thank you 2nacheki for sharing! Alongside with the great Wole Soyinka (author and activist), Chinua Achebe with the unbelievable "Things Fall Apart":and so on, i suggest researching on some of the precursors of African litterature and those whose contributions shouldn't be forgotten, and must still be on shelves for our generations to read: Leopold Leopord, Sedar Senghor (activist and poet, in his college age, place Quartier Latin, France), Mongo Beti, Alexis Kagame in La Philosophie Bantu de l'Etre; least but not the last, perhaps the genius that Africa will not see often again, Check Anta Diop , researcher, scientist, and ethno-anhropologist who wrote the highly accalaimed L'Origine du Noir. Note that there more authors who didn not survive, because their short stories or books or poetry, etc were not distributed enough or translated into either local languages or other foreign languages. Besides, African books had to be published in France, Britain or elsewhere, in the West, thus being limited to a more foreign audience and the few Africans in the Diaspora but not Africans, on the continent. I hope this will enlighten some people, and, for God's sake, stop insults and fights on KZfaq. I even believe that it disrespectful to do so! Peace to y'all!

Can you do Top 10 African Historical songs

Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism.he should be on the list

Number 7 is not African but European!🤣 STOP!!!

One day i want to be like ngugi wathiog"o my low modal

Some please explain how the things fall apart story like?

You overlooked Ferdinand Oyono Cameroon , Camara Laye of Guinea and others.

Top 10 leaves out a lot of good writers. Tsitsi Dangarembga makes my list.

This is gold at It's pureist

Hi, could you try to publish top 10 African leaders who helped South Africa with their fight against apartheid? Best regards from Somalia.

China Achebe >things fall apart. And Bessie Head > Maru. Both read in my high school year. Stuck till today.

Who is here for Ngugi wationg'o

Chinua , my favorite and only. Who wrote the Great ponds?Elechi Amadi.The second position should have gone to him. Stop the jeolousy.

Stop lying , number 7 is not African but you put her there forgetting best africans eg Dambudzo marechera and many more . its like talking about novels and skip William shakespear

Good to know

I love Africa

Non fiction: Ayaan Hirsi Ali has done an outstanding work.

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I also inspected Altaye Saleh from Sudan , he wrote many novels but the famous one is his novel Season of migration to the North. He had been working for the BBC for decates and wrote his novel while he was in London. Really he deserve to be in this list.

First I wish to Thank you for remembering us (early pioneers) and for your very enlightening presentation. I am an Artist, Craftsman and Korean war veteran (1950/51) DURING THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION of the early 1960’s I became disillusioned with the social and political situation in America and decided to relocate to Africa, and in 1965 I left for Ghana with less than $300 in my pocket and a return ticket, which I later cashed in. On arrival in Ghana I was welcomed by Tom Feelings, one of President Kwame Nkrumah's advisors, and introduced to other expatriates living in Ghana at the time. During the 1960s prior to Nkrumah overthrower, the African American expatriates living there included Pan-Africanist, artists like; Tom Feelings, John W. Ray, Herman Bailey, Ted Pontifiet, Leroy Mitchell, & educators like Julian Mayfield, Maya Angelou, Nell I. Painter’s parents, both educators (mother /father), Alice Windom, Dr. Shirley Graham DuBois, and few entrepreneurs and others. Our selected spokesman was Dr. Robert Lee, a dentist. After being adopted by an Ashanti-Paramount Chief, Nana kwaku Duah (1966) and given the name “Kojo Acheampong.” I spent the next eleven (11) years living in Ghana, often traveling to Togo and the Ivory Coast to market my jewelry. I earned a living by learning and making jewelry using traditional designs which I carved from cow-horns and ivory and fully immersing myself in the culture. On my return to the United States in 1976, I was able to contribute to the growing interest in African art and culture. I have publishes several books.. www.amazon.com/Curtis-James-Morrow/e/B074TWSKKW… It was a BORN AGAIN EXPERIENCE. ENJOY & we must continue to SHARE. Again, Thank U much.

Best african writers in english language that should be the title

Nuruddin Farah is a Somali novelist. He has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Since leaving Somalia in the 1970s he has lived and taught in numerous countries, including the United States, England, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Sudan, India, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa.

Sierra Leone we go

Two lady's there are not from Africa.

Despite her location of birth, Nadine Gordimer is not an African. She shouldn't have been given rank in that list.

Good list. Everyone should also read "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi. It's such a great book.

U should have added Okot Bi’ Tek from Uganda, with ‘song of Lawino’ being one of the most read literatures world wide.

It's said how Literature in Portuguese is usually ignored. I highly recommend the Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane. I hope she's been translate at least to English.

What about Naguib Mafouz and Ben Okri?

Chinua Achebe!

Alain Mabanckou from the Republic of Congo( Brazza-ville )

Cheikh Ante Diop & Yosef Ben-Jochanan. Two genius Afrikan writers.

Dinaw Mengestu " All our Names" a great writer.

Where's Clarice LISPECT

I wish that I could -(somehow) = "support all the AfriCAN (And Asian)_writers/Authors: as much as possABLE!!" (Especially; on/for = "writing Wednesdays!!" And so 4th).

Hello, thank you for your video. Please make a video on African scientists or African Inventors. Thank you

Chinua Achebe is bigger than the bullshit Nobel price.

Nurrudini Farah should be among them. I don't know where you can fix him but that guy has blown me away with his writings.

Nobel Prize Committee no idea about African Languages and Asian Languages Writers

Ngugi should be at least #3...brilliant writer

Do you have any suggestions about African authors who write detective novels? I am in. search to read a detective novel from every country in the world in English or Spanish. Your suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Enrique

Thanks for sharing ! Alain Mabanckou is from Congo Brazzaville and not from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Writers and authors from the French speaking Africa: -William Sassine, from Guinea-conakry -Léopold Sedar Senghor, from Sénégal -Fatou Diome, from Sénégal -Bernard Dadié, from Côte d'Ivoire -Ahmadou kourouma, from Côte d'Ivoire - Sony Labou Tansi, from Congo- Brazzaville -Amadou Hampaté Ba, from Mali -Thierno Monembo, from Guinea-conakry - Camara Laye, from Guinea-conakry - Kangni Alem, from Togo And many others....

you forgot Mariama Ba from Senegal

Alot of Africans simply like authors who are popular: Art is subjective: your “best” writers may not be mine. I don’t follow too many African authors, but I like writers like Ben Hinson and Kwei Quartey, both from Ghana/Nigeria who write more action/thriller/suspense books.

How can I track the book .. Girl from abroad by Mwangi Ruheni

Hmmmmm....3 Nigerians on the list with the top 2 being Nigerians. Let the HATE begin! #Naijaornothing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣