Eastern Africa

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

Unbowed
Afterlives
The Shadow King
Wizard of the Crow
Paradise
Season of Migration to the North
A Grain of Wheat
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Manchester Happened
Kintu
Petals of Blood
West with the Night
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
Cutting for Stone
Dust
His Dark Enchantress by Victoria ChathamThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorThe Unknown Island by Bessie MarchantThe Edge of Eden by Helen BenedictLeaving La-La Land by Robert K. Bosscha
Seychelles
6 books — 4 voters

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 — 434 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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“ 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

George Monbiot
“ Scientists at Germany's Max Planck Institute have found that as much as 40 percent of the rainfall in parts of East Africa appears to be caused by farmers watering their fields in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, between 4,000 and 6,000 kilometers away. ...more ”
― George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

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