Western Africa

Books in this genre are set in or about West Africa.

Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Half of a Yellow Sun
Homegoing
Americanah
Purple Hibiscus
My Sister, the Serial Killer
God's Bits of Wood
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
The Death of Vivek Oji
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Transcendent Kingdom
The Thing Around Your Neck
Under the Udala Trees
So Long a Letter
Aya (Aya, #1)
Silent Terror by Samuel CottonImmersed in West Africa by Terry ListerThe Desert and the Drum by Mbarek Ould BeyroukThe Last Brother by Nathacha AppanahThe Kingdom of Emptiness by Tom Gamble
Books set in Mauritania
11 books — 7 voters
Guanya Pau by Joseph J. WaltersGuanya Pau by Joseph Jeffrey WaltersA New Day Dawns by Terry ListerShe Would Be King by Wayétu  MooreThis Child Will Be Great by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Liberia
13 books — 5 voters

Writing IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorThis for That by Verna AardemaLe continent du Tout et du presque Rien by Sami TchakCola Cola Jazz by Kangni Alem
Togo
6 books — 5 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA Man of the People by Chinua AchebeRoots by Alex HaleyAncestor Stones by Aminatta Forna
History through Novels: West Africa
68 books — 42 voters

A spell of good things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀Nightbloom by Peace Adzo MedieHangman by Maya BinyamMaame by Jessica GeorgeRiver Spirit by Leila Aboulela
100 Notable African Books of 2023
100 books — 5 voters
Aya by Marguerite AbouetQueen Pokou by Véronique TadjoAMOUR by Véronique TadjoAbobo Marley by Yaya DiomandéA New Day Dawns by Terry Lister
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
25 books — 6 voters


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Hank Bracker
When we passed Camp Johnson, the military compound, I couldn’t believe that I was seeing two bodies suspended from the high security fence near the gate. On Broad Street, which is the main drag in Monrovia, there were streetlights but to my horror they were being used as gallows. Some still had bodies hanging from them, which appeared bloated and badly decomposed. Other bodies were decomposing in the gutters, with runoff water swirling around them. The decaying process doesn’t take long in this ...more
Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two"

Hank Bracker
Geographically, Liberia borders the Atlantic Ocean and is situated at the bottom of the “West African Bulge.” It has a wonderful diversified terrain and an abundance of natural resources. This little known country is located southeast of Sierra Leone, south of Guinea and west of Cote d’Ivoire. Liberia has a coastal plain extending 25 miles in from the ocean and is about 350 miles long extending the length of the country. Inland from the coastal plan are rolling hills and low mountains. In this m ...more
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