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
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
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

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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Hank Bracker
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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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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