African literature is the object of immense international interest across both academic and popular registers. Far from the field's earlier, post-colonial association with marginality, a handful of star "Afropolitan" names are at the forefront of global trade publishing.
Books like Chimamanda Adichie's "Americanah" and "Half of a Yellow Sun", Teju Cole's "Open City", Taiye Selasi's "Ghana Must Go" and Yaa Gyasi's "Homegoing" have confounded neat divisions between Western and African literary traditions. The Cameroonian novelist Imbolo Mbue captured a million-dollar contract for her first book, "Behold the Dreamers". That's even before it joined the Oprah's Book Club pantheon this year.
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