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We Need More Names — African Authors We Should All Be Reading

Based on Taiye Selasi's 2015 article for The Guardian in which she argues authors from Africa shouldn't be pigeonholed into only writing about what Western audiences expect them to (poverty, globalization, African-ness, etc.) In the article, Selasi discusses the importance of not limiting what African writers should be writing about or who is and isn't authentically "African" enough to be read. As she put it: "We need more stories about more subjects, more readers in more countries ... We need more names."
Here are just a few of the names she mentions.
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Ghana Must Go
Ghana Must Go
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The Hired Man
The Hired Man
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Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
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Open City
Open City
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Miracle (Tope Folarin)
Miracle (Tope Folarin)
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Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
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Happiness, Like Water (Chinelo Okparanta)
Happiness, Like Water (Chinelo Okparanta)
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We Need New Names
We Need New Names
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Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
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I Do Not Come to You by Chance (Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani)
I Do Not Come to You by Chance (Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani)
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Foreign Gods, Inc.
Foreign Gods, Inc.
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Dust (Yvonne Owuor)
Dust (Yvonne Owuor)
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Oil on Water (Helon Habila)
Oil on Water (Helon Habila)
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Graceland (Chris Abani)
Graceland (Chris Abani)
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One Day I Will Write About This Place (Binyavanga Wainaina)
One Day I Will Write About This Place (Binyavanga Wainaina)
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Hurling Words at Consciousness (Mūkoma Wa Ngũgĩ)
Hurling Words at Consciousness (Mūkoma Wa Ngũgĩ)
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The Book of Memory (Petina Gappah)
The Book of Memory (Petina Gappah)
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Stickfighting Days (Olufemi Terry)
Stickfighting Days (Olufemi Terry)
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The Memory of Love
The Memory of Love
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All Our Names (Dinaw Mengestu)
All Our Names (Dinaw Mengestu)
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