Tag: Africa
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The Informationist: A Thriller
By Taylor Stevens Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Crown Publishers, 2011 Genres: Thriller, adventure, suspense Series: Vanessa Michael Munroe; 1 ISBN: 9780307717092 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 307 Setting: Mainly set in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon, Africa. Also set in Houston, Texas and Frankfurt, Germany, with brief stints in Ankara, Turkey and Paris, France.…
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Who Fears Death
By Nnedi Okorafor Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Daw Books, Inc., 2010 Genres: Fantasy, dark fantasy, science fiction, magical realism ISBN: 9780756406172 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 387 Setting: Jwahir & Seven Rivers Kingdom, Africa Time period: An unspecified time in the future Plot summary: In a post-apocalyptic Africa, Onyesonwu is born to an…
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Things Fall Apart
By Chinua Achebe Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Anchor Books, c1959, 1994 Genre: General fiction, historical fiction ISBN: 9780385474542 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 209 Setting: Umuofia & Mbanta, Africa (now Nigeria) Time period: Not stated – the transitional period between traditional village life and colonization (1890’s) Plot summary: Okonkwo tries to live a…
Ra's Spiral Path 