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It’s the end of the year, so @thecontinent's Africans of the Year edition for 2025 is here! 🎉

So many great Africans.

That also means.... I got to pick my top 5 African reads of the year 👏🏾

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The cover of The Continent’s Africans of the Year edition, with illustrations of African newsmakers. Illustrations by Nzilani Simu.

Text from screenshot reads:

The Continent 13 DECEMBER 2025 | ISSUE 224

THE YEAR IN BOOKS
As chosen by Jacqueline Nyathi, founder of Harare Review of Books and The Continent's book reviewer.

5.
Promises by Goretti Kyomuhendo
The dream of a settled middle-class life through the power of the almighty pound drives young people in former British colonies to the United Kingdom. The couple in this story may be fictitious, but their trajectory - from hope to despair, and then picking up the pieces again
- is all too real.
4.
Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, edited by Olivia Kidula and Somto Ihezue
This spectacular collection features speculative fiction from Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, South Africa, Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe. In it you'll find shifty markets, njuzu, tech, cosmic battles, alt-history, anti-capitalist rebellion and maybe even the reason why donkeys have 44 teeth.
3
Everything is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe
Another book about African lives, which are so often a dance between the rural and urban. This great novel shows both these aspects.
It's a heartwarming coming-of-age story of two Ugandan sisters, with themes exploring queerness and the tensions of family - whether that's one's family of origin, or chosen family.
2
The Second Emancipation by Howard W French
French's biography of Kwame Nkrumah evaluates the impact of Ghana's first post-independence leader on Africa and the world and his claim to pan-Africanism. It demonstrates links from Africa..

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