This study entitled The Practice and Significance of Magical Realism in Selected African Novelsrnattempts to read different African novels through the lens of magical realism. Magical realism,rnintroduced to the realm of literature mostly with Latin American novels and gaining worldwidernrecognition with postcolonial literary works, has been a focal point of different scholarly studies. rnIn Africa, Ben Okriâ€˜s Famished Road has been studied by many for its skilful employment of therntechnique. The motivation behind taking up this topic is to fill the research gap in readingrndifferent novels from different regions of Africa in one volume and to be able to observe therntrend in the practice and significance of using magical realism. In doing so, the paper aims torncompare and contrast how different novelists from different contexts in Africa have applied therndifferent features that magical realism is known for. After establishing the practices of the usagernin different regions, the study attempts to identify the drive that motivates novelists to usernmagical realism and it also tries to highlight the issues raised through the magical realistrnapproach. Five novels have been chosen for this study namely; The Heart of Redness, ThernBleeding of the Stone, Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez, Woman of the Aeroplanes and Wizard ofrnthe Crow. To read these novels, a theoretical framework is formed using magical realismâ€˜srndifferent features theorized by different critics. The practices and significances of the use ofrnmagical realism in these novels are studied comparatively in order to show how and why thernapproach is used in different contexts. In addition, the paper attempts to identify if there are anyrndifferences or similarities among different traditional contexts in Africa in the employment ofrnmagical realism and if the issues raised through it have commonalities. The fact that the novelsrnare chosen from South, North, East, West and Central Africa and that they are studiedrncomparatively in one thesis could be taken as a new contribution in showing expressions ofrnmagical realism in different backgrounds. The study concludes that different novelists inrndifferent parts of Africa have used magical realism associating it with their own contexts,rnconnecting it with their respective cultural backgrounds, shared historical accounts, commentingrnon existing economic, social and political situations.