The African imaginary celebrates culture born and raised on the continent. Our library lives here and in Cape Town where we have 300 books and counting.
Shivani Ranchod – other than being one of our favourite reviewers – is a system strategist. She draws on wide-ranging experiences as an actuary, an academic, an entrepreneur, a meditator and a breathworker to re-imagine ways of work.
Here are her 5 favourite books:
1. A Crowded Lonely Walk by Sipho Banda (poetry, South Africa)
2. Of Water and Spirit by Malidoma Patrice Some (memoir, Burkina Faso)
3. Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga (non-fiction, Zimbabwe)
4. Mirage by David Viviers (fiction, South Africa)
5. We Were Girls Once by Aiwanose Odafen (fiction, Nigeria)
