10 Classic Black Books That Should Be Made Into Films

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

Technically, this is already a movie. However it is extremely dated and bootlegged. No disrespect to our ancestors and our kinfolks on the continent who put together the original film, but we can do better with a bigger budget. Matter of fact, it is hard to reconcile why this classic and critically acclaimed book about a prideful family man in a colonized Nigeria hasn’t gotten the Hollywood treatment – not even by Black Hollywood. What makes a film version of this book compelling is that it not only addresses the difficulties of fighting to maintain one’s cultural autonomy with an aggressive evading culture on the horizon but the story also sharply critiques the ways in which apathy and even greed contributed to our collective oppression. Plus with the right director, we are looking at some very beautiful visuals of pre-colonized Africa.