Guinea Bissau

Books in this genre are set in or about Guinea-Bissau.

The Ultimate Tragedy
Anos Ku Ta Manda
Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral (Monthly Review Press Classic Titles, 3)
No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky: The Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, 1963-74 (African History Archive)
Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Amílcar Cabral
Our people are our mountains: Amilcar Cabral on the Guinean revolution
Fighting Two Colonialisms
Invasion from 2500
The Yellow Overcoat
Death at the Medical Board (David Wintringham #7)
Songs from the Baobab: African Lullabies & Nursery Rhymes
Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories
Under the Neem Tree
Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist
Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiAya by Marguerite AbouetNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Tour d'Afrique
71 books — 21 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Fictitious Africa
547 books — 266 voters

The Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuWild Seed by Octavia E. ButlerTimeless by Gail CarrigerEternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene FrostSerpent's Kiss by Thea Harrison
Paranormal Romance Set in Africa
22 books — 11 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,768 books — 1,647 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherDark Star Safari by Paul TherouxSo Many Africas by Jill KandelKilimanjaro and Beyond by Barry FinlayJourney Without Maps by Graham Greene
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Africa
121 books — 115 voters
Chasing the Devil by Tim ButcherThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeA Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
West Africa
201 books — 87 voters


Amílcar Cabral
We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
Amílcar Cabral, Revolution in Guinea: Selected Texts

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