A level syllabus - good fictional books about the colonisation of Africa and its aftermath

[Sparrows12]

Hello

This is one of the three subject areas my daughter will be covering in A level history starting in September. We don't know much about this field of history. Can anyone recommend any readable fiction? I thought straightaway of the amazing Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. I also seem to remember Paul Theroux - Mosquito Coast? Is Heart of Darkness readable? Does anyone have any good ideas? She likes good quality descriptive writing that is readable, with a decent storyline.

[racingheart]

Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee both write brilliantly on South Africa. So does Doris Lessing.
Albert Camus in translation might be good on Algiers as he lived there, and is a fantastic writer.

[FraterculaArctica]

Elspeth Huxley - Red Strangers

[AgentProvocateur]

A good man in Africa, by william Boyd.

[stopcallingmefrank]

Things Fall Apart or Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

[beatricequimby]

Definitely anything by Chinua Achebe. She might also like Half of a Yellow Sun or Purple Hibiscus by Chinamanda Ngozi Adiche. Set in Nigeria, more modern setting than Achebe but they are beautifully written.

[Sparrows12]

These are really helpful - I had forgotten about William boyd, and never even heard of chinua achebe.

[complexnumber]

How about The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiongo. The missionaries come and attempt to stop FGM. It is written by a male author and I think it is quite interesting to question why women and women's bodies are the receptacles of tradition and whether a woman would have written the same book.