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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Fiction, Literature) {Also set in Alabama (U.S.A)}
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Fiction, Literature)
Murder in Kumasi by Cofie Quaye (Mystery) GHANA
Harry on the Run by Steve Turnbull Steampunk, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Bait by Nick Brownlee (Mystery)
The Constant Gardener by John le Carré (Mystery, Thriller) {Also set in Nairobi}
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Fiction, Literature)
Murder in Kumasi by Cofie Quaye (Mystery) GHANA
Harry on the Run by Steve Turnbull Steampunk, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Bait by Nick Brownlee (Mystery)
The Constant Gardener by John le Carré (Mystery, Thriller) {Also set in Nairobi}
Kenya: (This is from Carolien)
The Honey Guide by Richard Crompton Mystery - 1st in the series
Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor HF
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o including A Grain of Wheat
How Shall We Kill the Bishop? and Other Stories Short Stories
Grace Ogot including The Graduate, The Promised Land
Meja Mwangi including The Mzungu Boy
In Borrowed Light by Barbara Keating - Blood Sisters
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir by Binyavanga Wainaina
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Unbowed by Wangari Maathai NF, Feminism
Nairobi Heat by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
Nairobi Grit by Tom Jalio
Elspeth Huxley including The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick Science Fiction, Short stories - 1st in Series
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman
The Lions of Tsavo by James L. Haley
Ghosts of Tsavo is the first in a paranormal series by Vered Ehsani.
On The Right Track: Volume I: Early Travels of a Noted Anthropologist, Historian & Writer in Africa
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
The River and the Source by Margaret A. Ogola
Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye including The Present Moment and Coming to Birth
Whoever Fears The Sea (also set in Somalia)
Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani
The Honey Guide by Richard Crompton Mystery - 1st in the series
Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor HF
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o including A Grain of Wheat
How Shall We Kill the Bishop? and Other Stories Short Stories
Grace Ogot including The Graduate, The Promised Land
Meja Mwangi including The Mzungu Boy
In Borrowed Light by Barbara Keating - Blood Sisters
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir by Binyavanga Wainaina
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Unbowed by Wangari Maathai NF, Feminism
Nairobi Heat by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
Nairobi Grit by Tom Jalio
Elspeth Huxley including The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick Science Fiction, Short stories - 1st in Series
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman
The Lions of Tsavo by James L. Haley
Ghosts of Tsavo is the first in a paranormal series by Vered Ehsani.
On The Right Track: Volume I: Early Travels of a Noted Anthropologist, Historian & Writer in Africa
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
The River and the Source by Margaret A. Ogola
Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye including The Present Moment and Coming to Birth
Whoever Fears The Sea (also set in Somalia)
Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani
Ghana - Kwei Quartey Darko Dawson's mystery series seems to be set here
Kenya - Red Strangers by Elspeth Huxley
Kenya - Red Strangers by Elspeth Huxley
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Remote Control (other topics)
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Taiye Selasi (other topics)Peace Adzo Medie (other topics)
Nnedi Okorafor (other topics)
Kwei Quartey (other topics)
Elspeth Huxley (other topics)
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