Africa · A READING GUIDE

Gambia

Read Reading the Ceiling alongside The Second Round as distinct fictional routes through choice and return. Lenrie Peters also appears as a poet through Selected Poetry. Chaff on the Wind turns towards 1930s Gambia, while The Magic Calabash explores urban Banjul. Library records document the older editions; inclusion here does not imply continuous bookshop availability.

WHERE TO START

Reading the CeilingDayo Forster
The Second RoundLenrie Peters
Chaff on the WindEbou Dibba

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Books to begin with

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Dayo Forster

Reading the Ceiling

About the book

Three possible lives branch from a decision Ayodele makes on her eighteenth birthday.

EnglishOriginal

Reading the Ceiling

Simon & Schuster UK

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Lenrie Peters

The Second Round

About the book

A doctor returns from England to West Africa and confronts the distance between expectations and reality.

EnglishOriginal

The Second Round

Heinemann

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Lenrie Peters

Selected Poetry

About the book

Selected poetry introduces Peters’s cosmopolitan voice alongside his fiction.

EnglishOriginal

Selected Poetry

Heinemann

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Ebou Dibba

Chaff on the Wind

About the book

Set in 1930s Gambia, the novel traces young people’s ambitions and diverging paths.

EnglishOriginal

Chaff on the Wind

Macmillan

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Nana Grey-Johnson

The Magic Calabash

About the book

A satirical story explores everyday life and economic hardship in Banjul.

EnglishOriginal

The Magic Calabash

Vinasha Publishing Co.

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Ebou Dibba

Fafa

About the book

A novel for younger readers set in Gambian society.

EnglishOriginal

Fafa

Macmillan

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Ebou Dibba

Alhaji

About the book

A short novel by the Gambian author in the Junior Pacesetters series.

EnglishOriginal

Alhaji

Macmillan

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Context and sources

Sources on authors and their connections to this country. Specific edition details appear beside each book. Polish and English originals are not labelled as translations.