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
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
Brick by Brick by Karen   ShermanZanzibar Uhuru by Anne M. ChappelPlay Like a Girl by Ellie RoscherMon père, cette autre partie de moi qu on m a arrachée. Homma... by Jeanne HabyarimanaIslands in the Bush by Malcolm Coe
Books about East Africa
21 books — 14 voters

Djibouti by Elmore LeonardHis Dark Enchantress by Victoria ChathamLe Pays sans ombre by Abdourahman A. WaberiGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.The Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Djibouti
13 books — 6 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

Nightbloom by Peace Adzo MedieA spell of good things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀Hangman by Maya BinyamMaame by Jessica GeorgeRiver Spirit by Leila Aboulela
100 Notable African Books of 2023
101 books — 7 voters
Paradise by Abdulrazak GurnahZanzibar by Chris McIntyreLonely Planet Tanzania, Zanzibar & Pemba by Lonely PlanetEmpires of the monsoon by Richard Seymour HallPainted Devils and the Land of Ordinary Men by Tuan Marais
Zanzibar
44 books — 8 voters


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In 1498, Vasco da Gama the Portuguese navigator explored this eastern coast of Africa flanking the Indian Ocean. This led him to open a trade route to Asia and occupy Mozambique to the Portuguese colony. In 1840, it came under the control of the Sultan of Zanzibar and became a British protectorate in 1895, with Mombasa as its capital. Nairobi, lying 300 miles to the northwest of Mombasa is the largest city in Kenya. It became the capital in 1907 and is the fastest growing urban area in the Repu ...more
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