Sub-Sahara and West Africa

ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Barakah Sākin (1963-, Sudan) – Samāhānī (‘Forgive me’, 2017). In the year of 1652 the Ottoman Kalief invades…

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Ashraf al-ʿAshmāwī (?, Egypt) – Tūyā (‘Toya’, 2012). Set in the 1970s, this novel tells the story of the young

Ḥāmid al-Nāẓir (1975-, Sudan) – Nubūʾah al-Saqqā (‘The prophecy of Saqqa’, 2015). This novel portrays the Aḥfād (grandchildren) slaves’ struggle

ʿAlī Badr (?, Iraq) – La Tarkuḍ Warāʾ al-Thiʾāb ya ʿAzīzatī (‘Don’t run after the wolves my darling’, 2007). The