2025 READING LIST 

4 January  -  Vanessa Walters, The Lagos Wife

1 February  -  Scholastique Mukasonga, Our Lady of the Nile 

1 March  -  Yomi Adegoke, The List

5 April - Maryse Condé, The Gospel According to the New World

3 May - Ayobami Adebayo, Stay with Me

7 June - Denis Hirson, The House Next Door to Africa

5 July - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

2 August - Maryse Condé, What is Africa to Me?

6 September - Camara Laye, The Radiance of the King

4 October  - Bill Hearn & David Gleave, Football’s Black Pioneers

1 November - Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

6 December - Maryse Condé, The Journey of a Caribbean Writer

WE READ BOOKS CHOSEN FROM SUGGESTIONS BY GROUP MEMBERS.

Our members have connections (e.g. by ancestry, birth or having lived there) with Barbados, France, Ghana, Guyana, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Spain, South Africa, Sudan, the UK and Zimbabwe