Back in 2001, the Zimbabwe International Book Fair launched the international compilation of " Africa's 100 Best Books . " (via In an African Minute Blog ) " Over the last hundred years African writers have written of their lives, experiences, culture, history and myth; they have written in diverse forms, styles and in many languages. They have been published widely on the African continent, in Europe, the Americas and Asia. They have written in English, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Swahili, and in many other indigenous languages. And they have written with extraordinary originality, flair and great integrity. Nonetheless their work as a corpus deriving from the African continent remains largely unknown and uncelebrated ." Africa 100 Best Books of the 20th Century--Final List Arranged in the tables below is a copy of the final list of 100 titles announced by the panel of judges in Accra, Ghana, 18 February 2002. The jury selected books in 3 main categories: