I've been commanded by Lord McDermott to put together a list of great novels by African writers so he'd have some stuff to read. And that's exactly what I've done.
I've intentionally chucked out the books everyone has likely read, such as Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (I know for a fact that Mr. McDermott has read this one, so that's an easy task).
In no particular order, here are the novels (a very VERY short list):
