Doctoral candidate in international history Simon Stevens was reading Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun when he realized it looked kind of familiar. He did some looking around on Good Reads and discovered something intriguing about books related to Africa…
An inordinate number get “the acacia tree sunset treatment”…
The site Africa Is a Country, whose ironic flair you can guess from their name, summarizes their analysis of this cover collection…
In short, the covers of most novels “about Africa” seem to have been designed by someone whose principal idea of the continent comes from The Lion King.
Read more at Quartz.