Malawi

Books in this genre are set in or about Malawi.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Lower River
soft magic.
The Heaven Shop
The Jive Talker: An Artist's Genesis
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Venture to the Interior
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
No Easy Task
And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night
Laugh with the Moon
Of Chameleons and Gods (African Writers Series)
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
226 books — 120 voters
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWhat the Earl Desires by Aliyah BurkeThe Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuHer Reluctant Viscount by Aliyah BurkeA Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory
Africans in Romance
39 books — 11 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeNo Longer at Ease by Chinua AchebeSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihA Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oThe River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
African Writers Series
241 books — 69 voters
Nevada Lowball by Antonio NicassioThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fictitious Africa
563 books — 319 voters



William Kamkwamba
It was common for my father to sit my sisters down and tell them things like, "I saw a girl working in the bank in town, and she was a girl just like you." My parents had never completed primary school. They couldn't speak English or even read that well. My parents only knew the language of numbers, buying and selling, but they wanted more for their kids. That's why my father had scraped the money together and kept Annie in school, despite the famine and other troubles. ...more
William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

William Kamkwamba
Your Excellency," [Chief Wimbe] said, turning to face the president. "I'd like to congratulate you not only for what you've done in Malawi, but all across the great continent of Africa. We're having about all the things you're doing in Congo and how you'd had success. We're very proud of our president. But please understand, we're also at war here in Malawi, and that war is against hunger." He then asked the president to stop funding wells and toilets and use the money to buy grain. (Because re ...more
William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

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