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
Mr. Impossible by Loretta ChaseAs You Desire by Connie BrockwayThe Other Guy's Bride by Connie BrockwayA Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna RaybournMr. Impossible by Loretta Chase
Historical Romance Set in Africa
54 books — 21 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
239 books — 63 voters

A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia SamatarThe Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose UtomiSon of the Storm by Suyi Davies OkungbowaEverfair by Nisi ShawlBlood Scion by Deborah Falaye
Africa-Influenced Epic Fantasy
40 books — 10 voters
MANTRA-6 by Russel  HutchingsNITRATE by Russel  HutchingsMANTRA-6 by Russel  HutchingsNITRATE by Russel  HutchingsMantra 6 by Russel  Hutchings
SAS - Special Air Service
184 books — 66 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


Ishmael Beah
We took a bowl each and started eating. He went back into the little room, and by the time he returned to the table with his own bowl of food to eat with us, we had already finished. He was shocked and looked around to see if we had done something else with the food.
Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

I have dealt with killahs before." I study her face. She is not speaking figuratively. Her dark eyes hold mine. "I told you where I came from." I do some quick math. In the 90's, around the time my world was shattered by my father's death, Sierra Leone was brutalized by civil war. Mariama would have been a young adult, watching everything around her being blown to pieces. I learned it as a fact in a college classroom. Mariama lived it. How little thought I've given to the life of this woman I've ...more
Virginia Hartman, The Marsh Queen

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