What to Read After Xala
Readers who loved Xala by Ousmane Sembène keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Xala 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 Xala
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Efuru
Death and the King's Horseman
The Beggar's Strike, or, The Dregs of Society
Nedjma
House of Hunger
Fantasia, an Algerian cavalcade
Butterfly Burning
Palm-Wine Drinkard
Devil on the Cross
Ways of Dying
Miss Muriel and other stories
Your Name Shall Be Tanga
Head Above Water
Migritude
Mission to Kala
The Forest of a Thousand Daemons
The Interpreters
The Girl Who Can
The marriage of Anansewa
A Grain of Wheat
No Name in the Street
The Joys of Motherhood
Autobiography of My Mother