does any1 know any famous authors like Hemingway that wrote about africa?

Answer 1

Try these:

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Paton - Cry the Beloved Country
Dinesen - Out of Africa
Kingsolver - Poisonwood Bible
Hulme - The Nun's Story
Huxley - Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
Woods - Biko
Rochman: Somehow Tenderness Survives: Stories of South Africa


Also try this website:
All books by African authors including Achebe:

http://library.jccc.net/guides/literature/africannovel.html

Answer 2

Doris Lessing - The Grass Is Singing and African Stories
Romain Gary - Les Racines du Ciel (I don't know if there is a version in English, if so it should be called something like The Roots of Heaven - great novel!)
The best novel I've ever read, actually, IS Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness!
Less demanding but a good read: John LeCarré's The Constant Gardener
Anything by Wole Soyinka or Breyten Breytenbach....

Answer 3

A Danish author named Isak Dinesen (the pen name of Karen Blixen) wrote a memoir called "Out of Africa" - that's where the movie came from. She lived in Kenya from 1914 - 1931.

Answer 4

The playwright Athol Fugard based a lot of his work in South Africa. (It was a novel he wrote that was the basis for last year's Best Foreign Film Oscar winner, Tsotsi).

John Coetzee...he won the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Answer 5

Nadine Gordimer (Southern Africa): a white woman, still writing.

She won the Nobel prize for Literature in l991. Has written 14 novels and 11 short-story collections. (Born in l923).

Answer 6

"The Stranger" by Albert Camus; Takes place in Algeria

"Something of Value" by Robert Ruark; Set in contemporary Kenya during the time of the Mau Mau rebellion which were the last years of British colonial rule.

Answer 7

Isak Dinesen-out of africa
erwan begfort-krops of africa

Answer 8

Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Answer 9

Alan Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country.

Heart of Darkness is a good one, too!

Answer 10

Isak Dinesen - "Out of Africa"