The most popular French black experience books of 2021

These books tell the stories of Black people in Africa and across the diaspora. History, family, music, struggle and joy fill novels, memoirs, poetry and essays, written by some of the finest authors at work. There are classics, and the new voices shaping literature today. This list shows the ones first published in 2021. Only books in French are listed.

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The upper world
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The upper world

Femi Fadugba

2021 · 2023 edition

456 pages

Noires origines
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Noires origines

Howard W. French

2021 · 2024 edition

550 pages

Nina
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Nina

Traci N. Todd

Published 2021

64 pages

Je suis Malcolm X
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Je suis Malcolm X

Ilyasah Shabazz, Tiffany D. Jackson, Christine Bouard-Schwartz

2021 · 2024 edition

336 pages

We Are Family
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We Are Family

LeBron James, Andrea Williams

2021 · 2024 edition

222 pages

Michelle Obama
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Michelle Obama

Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Mia Saine

2021 · 2023 edition

32 pages

Humeur noire
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Humeur noire

Anne-Marie Garat

Published 2021

304 pages

Happy family
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Happy family

Kathleen Collins

2021 · 2023 edition

151 pages

Moi Clovis, roi
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Moi Clovis, roi

Jean-Jacques Charrière

Published 2021

269 pages

Afrocentrismes
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Afrocentrismes

François-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar, Jean-Pierre Chrétien, Claude Hélène Perrot

Published 2021

402 pages