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WISHLIST WEDNESDAY (AWS EDITION)

  So it's that time of the month again and I'm back with a new edition of Wishlist Wednesday. If you haven't seen my previous one, you can check it out here. So this month's edition is the AWS edition. AWS basically means African Writers Series, which is a series of books by African writers that has been published by Heinemann since 1962. There are about 200+ books in this series that I know of. The first book in the series I read was The Concubine by Elechi Amadi, about two years ago and I loved every bit of it. I immediately began searching for other AWS books and my search is still ongoing because it's quite a bulky series. I currently own five books out of the lot and one of my major goals is to own or at least read all the books- crazy right? Lol I know. So below are a few of the books I want from the series (obviously I want all, but I've gotta break the list down)

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A Squatter's Tale (by Ike Oguine)                            

                           

The books above are The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah, The Girl Who Can and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo, Changes by Ama Ata Aidoo, The Outcasts by Bonnie Lubega, Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, So Long A Letter by Mariama Ba, Idu by Flora Nwapa, God's Bits Of Wood by Sembene Ousmane, A Squatter's Tale by Ike Oguine, Estrangement by Elechi Amadi, The Clothes of Nakedness by Benjamin Kwakye and The Housemaid by Amma Darko.

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  1. Demilade 4 July 2016 at 20:51

    Yess, the books in the AWS are amazing. I want to read The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born as well. I've read The Housemaid, very nice. Great post babes. xx

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