Sierra Leone

Books in this genre are set in or about Sierra Leone.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
The Memory of Love
Radiance of Tomorrow
The Bite of the Mango
Ancestor Stones
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1)
The Book of Negroes
The Heart of the Matter
Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
Little Family
Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar
The Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuWild Seed by Octavia E. ButlerTimeless by Gail CarrigerSerpent's Kiss by Thea HarrisonEternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost
Paranormal Romance Set in Africa
23 books — 11 voters
Simply Effective by Ron AshkenasHarvard Business Review Leader's Handbook by Ron AshkenasBelieve In Yourself And Your Dreams by Emmanuel DeanFrom Broken to Loved Again by Emmanuel DeanWrapped Up in You by Carole Matthews
African Romances
89 books — 6 voters

Binti by Nnedi OkoraforWho Fears Death by Nnedi OkoraforThe City of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyAlif the Unseen by G. Willow WilsonA Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
SF & F Atlas - Africa
57 books — 17 voters
Song of the Butterflies by R.M. LeslieNot Just Yet. Egypt 2011 by Mohamed Abdel-MaksoudLife and Death in Nyamata by Omar NdizeyeMinna, Saturday by Chizzy Ndukwe N.Life in Woke America by Joel Rakow
Best Debut Short Stories From Africa!
12 books — 16 voters



Hank Bracker
In 1821 the United States government sent Dr. Eli Ayres to the Pepper or Grain Coast of West Africa, to buy the land discovered by Samuel Bacon prior to his death the preceding year. Dr. Ayres sailed aboard the U.S. naval schooner the USS Alligator, commanded by Lieutenant Robert Stockton, to the proposed new colony near the Mesurado River. After several days of negotiations in November of 1821, this valuable land was purchased at gunpoint from the tribal chief King Peter. Soon after this purcha ...more
Captain Hank Bracker, The History of Liberia & West Africa

Ishmael Beah
I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have gotten back together, I thought.
Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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