Eastern Africa

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

Unbowed
Afterlives
The Shadow King
Wizard of the Crow
Paradise
A Grain of Wheat
Season of Migration to the North
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Petals of Blood
Manchester Happened
Kintu
Dust
West with the Night
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
Out of Africa
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 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 HamlinNotes from the Hyena's Belly by Nega Mezlekia
Books Set in Ethiopia
125 books — 80 voters


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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

AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police.
David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever

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