What to Read After Sundiata
Readers who loved Sundiata by Djibril Tamsir Niane keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Sundiata is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Sundiata
Ségou
Ambiguous adventure
The river between
The beggar's strike, or, The dregs of society
Decolonising the Mind
Une si longue lettre
The palm-wine drinkard ; and, My life in the bush of ghosts
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
Reading the ceiling
Chaka
God Dies by the Nile
Two thousand seasons
Maps
The autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah.
Black Shack Alley
Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa
Smouldering Charcoal
Facing Mount Kenya
The old man and the medal
Kehinde
Broken Glass
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
A grain of wheat
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