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
Houseboy (African Writers)
Nedjma
House of Hunger
Palm-Wine Drinkard
The beggar's strike, or, The dregs of society
Devil on the cross
Butterfly burning
Fantasia, an Algerian cavalcade
Ways of dying
The forest of a thousand daemons
Baobab fou
Miss Muriel and other stories
Mission to Kala
The girl who can
The interpreters
Head above water
Migritude
Forest of a Thousand Daemons
Forest of a Thousand Daemons
The marriage of Anansewa
A grain of wheat