Uganda

Books in this genre are set in or about Uganda.

Kintu
A Girl Is a Body of Water
Abyssinian Chronicles
We Are All Birds of Uganda
The Last King of Scotland (Vintage International)
Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe
All the Glimmering Stars
Manchester Happened
Kisses from Katie
Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol
War Brothers: The Graphic Novel
A History of Burning
Orange for the Sunsets
The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster
Waiting: A Novel of Uganda's Hidden War
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiTropical Fish by Doreen BainganaAbyssinian Chronicles by Moses IsegawaWaiting by Goretti Kyomuhendo
Authors Born in Uganda
4 books — 1 voter
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


Tasneem Jamal
It’s as though he is a spoiled girl planning a party and she wants to use invitations to exert her power,” Jaafar says. “Who to include, exclude? Each moment her mood shifts and so does the invitation list. It’s ludicrous.
Tasneem Jamal, Where The Air Is Sweet

Anne Applebaum
Earlier that day, Bobi Wine, a Ugandan musician and nearly successful presidential candidate—or maybe, if the votes had been counted correctly, a genuinely successful one—spoke to the group. He argued against the use of the word "opposition." No, he argued, we are not an opposition; we are an option, a better option. ...more
Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

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