Four writers on their favourite African books

What makes a great book? And which African books deserve a wider audience? BBC Africa’s Audrey Brown has been discussing these and other questions with writers at the Africa Writes literature festival, run by the Royal African Society in London.

She asked novelist Yewande Omotoso – who was born in Barbados, grew up in Nigeria, and lives in South Africa – British poet and rapper Akala, Kenyan poet and academic Abdilatif Abdalla, and British Nigerian writer Sarah Ladipo Manyika which books mean a lot to them.

(Photo: Clockwise from top left - Akala, Yewande Omotoso, Abdilatif Abdalla and Sarah Ladipo Manyika. All images courtesy of the Royal African Society)