Eastern Africa

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

Unbowed
Wizard of the Crow
Afterlives
The Shadow King
Paradise
A Grain of Wheat
Season of Migration to the North
Petals of Blood
West with the Night
Kintu
Manchester Happened
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Cutting for Stone
Petit pays
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
His Dark Enchantress by Victoria ChathamTropic of Violence by Nathacha AppanahLe Pays sans ombre by Abdourahman A. WaberiMon étincelle by Ali Zamir
Comoros
4 books — 3 voters
Out of Africa by Isak DinesenWest with the Night by Beryl MarkhamThe Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth HuxleyThe Constant Gardener by John le CarréBorn Free by Joy Adamson
Books Set in Kenya
195 books — 108 voters

The First Wife by Paulina ChizianeSleepwalking Land by Mia CoutoThe Tuner of Silences by Mia CoutoGungunhana by Ungulani Ba Ka KhosaChoriro by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
Literature of Mozambique
31 books — 6 voters
Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseBeneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza MengisteThe Emperor by Ryszard KapuścińskiThe Hospital by the River by Catherine HamlinThe Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
Books Set in Ethiopia
128 books — 85 voters

Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza MengisteMaps by Nuruddin FarahThe Shadow King by Maaza MengisteThe Conscript by Gebreyesus HailuNotes from the Hyena's Belly by Nega Mezlekia
Reading the Horn of Africa
37 books — 8 voters
The Edge of Eden by Helen BenedictHis Dark Enchantress by Victoria ChathamThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorThe Unknown Island by Bessie MarchantLeaving La-La Land by Robert K. Bosscha
Seychelles
6 books — 4 voters


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