2020 Top Twenty

2020 was a great year for African-published books, with new and existing publishers all contributing to one of the collective's best! Here are our top twenty sellers for the year.

Swahili Made Easy
by J.F. Safari
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania
Sosu's Call
by Meshack Asare
Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana
Award

Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol
by Okot p'Bitek
East African Educational Publishers, Kenya
Award

Mwana Mdogo wa Mfalme/Le Petit Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania
Award

Once Upon a Time in Ghana
by Anna Cottrell, Agbotadua Togbi Kumassah
Afram Publications, Ghana
Not My Time to Die
by Yolande Mukagasana
Huza Press, Rwanda
Development as Rebellion (HB Box Set)
by Issa G. Shivji, Saida Yahya-Othman, Ng’wanza Kamata
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania
Kenda Mũiyũru
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
East African Educational Publishers, Kenya
A New History of Tanzania
by Isaria N. Kimambo, Gregory H. Maddox, Salvatory S. Nyanto
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania
Mobile Africa
edited by Mirjam van Reisen, Munyaradzi Mawere, Kinfe Abraha Gebre-Egziabher
Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon
A Brutal State of Affairs
by Henrik Ellert, Dennis Malcolm Anderson
Weaver Press, Zimbabwe
Waiting for the Rain
by Charles Mungoshi
Zimbabwe Publishing House, Zimbabwe
A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana
by Akosua Adoma Perbi
Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana
My Life, My Purpose
by Benjamin W. Mkapa
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania
Trapped
by Valerie Tagwira
Weaver Press, Zimbabwe
Award

Harvest of Thorns
by Shimmer Chinodya
Weaver Press, Zimbabwe
My Life, My Purpose
by Benjamin W. Mkapa
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania
History of the Church in Africa
by Hildebrandt Jonathan
Africa Christian Press, Ghana