All meetings take place in the Progresso Coffee shop in Tomas Neal's Centre, Covent Garden (downstairs in the mall) and begin at 6.30 p.m.

July/August Title

We will be discussing the following books and film:

"Wretched of the Earth" by Franz Fanon

"Summer in Algiers" by Albert Camus

"Battle for Algiers" A film by Gillo Pontecorvo (1966).

Meeting date: Wednesday 24 May 2006.

Books and Short Stories We Have Read

June 2005

By the Sea
by Abdulrazak Gurnah (2001, Zanzibar)

May 2005

Disgrace
by J.M. Coetzee (2000, South Africa. Winner of the Booker Prize)

April 2005

The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales
by Bessie Head (Short Stories, 1977, Botswana)

March 2005

Purple Hibiscus
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2004, Nigeria)

February 2005

Waiting for an Angel
by Helon Habila (2002, Nigeria)

January 2005

Opening Spaces: Contemporary African Women's Writing
Edited by Yvonne Vera (short stories, 1999)

December 2004

Nervous Conditions
by Tsitsi Dangaremgba (1988, Zimbabwe)

November 2004

Dark Child
by Camara Laye (1953 Guinea) Translated from French

October 2004

Season of Migration to the North
by Tayeb Salih (1969, Sudan) Translated from Arabic

September 2004

A Squatter's Tale
by Ike Oguine (2000, Nigeria)

August 2004

Weight of Whispers
by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (2003 Kenya)