This week we welcome, Krystle Zara Appiah! Krystle is a British-Ghanaian novelist and children’s books editor. Her debut novel, “Rootless”, is an intimate story of love, grief, motherhood and the choices that shape a marriage, which won the 2024 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author. Her second novel, “Half Lives” came out this year and was recently shortlisted for the 2026 Morland African Writing Scholarships. Krystal stopped by The African Imaginary to share her 5 Favourites with us while she was in Cape Town for The Open Book Festival. Thanks once again to @openbookfest for making this collaboration possible! Here are her 5 Favourites: 1. What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah 2. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite 3. The Talk of the Party by Foluso Agbaje 4. Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad by Damilare Kuku 5. Stay with me by Ayọ̀bámi AdĂ©báyọ̀
