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
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSo Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
African Fiction
606 books — 435 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

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

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
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


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Enock Maregesi
Kiswahili ni lugha rasmi ya nchi za Tanzania, Kenya na Uganda. Ni lugha isiyo rasmi ya nchi za Rwanda, Burundi, Msumbiji na Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo. Lugha ya Kiswahili ni mali ya nchi za Afrika ya Mashariki, si mali ya nchi za Afrika Mashariki peke yake. Pia, Kiswahili ni lugha rasmi ya Umoja wa Afrika; pamoja na Kiarabu, Kiingereza, Kifaransa, Kireno na Kihispania. Kiswahili ni lugha inayozungumzwa zaidi nchini Tanzania kuliko nchi nyingine yoyote ile, duniani.
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Nigel Slater
There is a smell, rich and sickly sweet, so pungent I feel as if I am being choked. A smell that is both new and curiously familiar. Notes of the most intense jasmine with a back note of vanilla and overripe mango. The sea is too warm, and I cut short my night swim. As I pass through the garden, lanterns now glowing, the perfume has faded a little, it is less hypnotic, softer and more floral than before. Trumpets of deep-crimson hibiscus have closed for the night, chains of bougainvillea and a p ...more
Nigel Slater, A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts

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