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Nanjala Nyabola toggle caption Nanjala Nyabola Nanjala Nyabola is an academic, traveler, and collector of guidebooks, some of which are pictured here. Nanjala Nyabola Remember Lonely Planet? Rough Guides? The glossy photos? The breezy descriptions of faraway places? Long before the pandemic lockdown, those classic guidebooks were go-to reading for many people going on a big trip. Nanjala Nyabola is one of them. She s a writer and a consummate traveler from Kenya who collects these guides, but discovered early on that the information that lay between their covers was not written with travelers like her in mind. Touring Africa through the lens of these guidebooks almost discouraged her from traveling altogether. ....
In a year that has lent itself to living in the internal world of books, African authors offered up a host of worlds to escape to. Combining the keepers of the literary old guard and exciting new voices, the titles in our list featuring some of the best books by African writers published in 2020 excavate a forgotten history, reflect on life today and manoeuvre through an uncertain future. The selection below is a mix of fiction and non-fiction, essays and poetry, all representing an exciting year in African literature. Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth – Wole Soyinka Wole Soyinka [File: Themba Hadebe/AP Photo]For the first time in nearly half a century, Wole Soyinka published a book in a year that turned out to be exceptional for many reasons. ....