Central Africa

Books in this genre are set in or about Central Africa.

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Heart of Darkness
The Poisonwood Bible
A Bend in the River
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
Congo: een geschiedenis
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo
How Beautiful We Were
A General Theory of Oblivion
Dark Age: The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Batouala by René MaranDark Age by Brian TitleyCulture and Customs of the Central African Republic by Jacqueline C. WoodforkCo-Wives, Co-Widows by Adrienne YabouzaDaba's Travels from Ouadda to Bangui by Makombo Bamboté
Books Set in Central African Republic
24 books — 11 voters
Equador by Miguel Sousa TavaresChocolate Islands by Catherine HiggsA Fistful of Shells by Toby Green
São Tomé and Príncipe
3 books — 2 voters

Tropical Gangsters by Robert KlitgaardShadows of Your Black Memory by Donato Ndongo-BidyogoThe Wonga Coup by Adam   RobertsThe Informationist by Taylor StevensBy Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
Books Set in Equatorial Guinea
12 books — 6 voters
Mema by Daniel M. MengaraThe Fury and Cries of Women by Angèle RawiriLe chasseur de lucioles by Janis OtsiemiTropic Moon by Georges SimenonKing Mombo by Paul du Chaillu
Gabon
13 books — 7 voters



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