How will these resources help you?

Africa is a glorious and diverse continent, but all too often it is reduced in our students’ minds to a homogenous place, a ‘country called Africa’. This perception is because of how places in Africa are portrayed in the media and broader society. The narrative concerning African countries is often reduced to what Adichie would refer to as a ‘single story’. This reading list will help you to appreciate the complex and varied continent through a series of novels and collections of short stories set in different countries. You will enrich your teaching with a deeper understanding of places and bring excerpts from these stories into your students’ learning to deepen their sense of different places.