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Books set in Uganda:



The Gravity of Sunlight by Rosa Shand
Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe by Doreen Baingana
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
Snakepit by Moses Isegawa
Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa by Mahmood Mamdani
Stolen Angels: The Kidnapped Girls of Uganda by Kathy Cook
White Teeth by Okot p'Bitek
Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji
The Price of Stones by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri
Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Ugandas Children
Aboke Girls: Children Abducted in Northern Uganda by Els De Temmerman
Elizabeth of Toro: The Odyssey of an African Princess by Elizabeth Nyabongo
First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda by Peter H. Eichstaedt
Bunyoro: An African Kingdom by John Beattie
First Comes Love Then Comes Malaria by Eve Brown-Waite
The Night of Knives by Jon Evans
The Forgotten Children by Vernon Brewer
Kisses from Katie by Katie J. Davis
Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol by Okot p'Bitek
The Lion's Eye: Seeing in the Wild by Joanna Greenfield

Waiting by Goretti Kyomuhendo

Nightmare Along The River Nile by Suzanna E. Nelson

I have started a Listopia list of books set in Uganda here: Books Set in Uganda. I compiled the list from this thread plus other suggestions and recommendations found elsewhere on Good Reads and the Internet. Feel free to vote for your favorites and/or add books that I missed!

The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget by Andrew Rice

Child Soldier by China Keitetsi

Thirty Girls by Susan Minot

The General Is Up by Peter Nazareth

Matika and the River Lion by Latrice N Simpkins

The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda by Thor Hanson

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Wondering, the Way is Made

For wonderers and wanderers. Although set principally in South America, the opening chapter of this book describes a formative moment in the protagonist's life - an experience which takes place in Uganda...

More books set in Uganda:


All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
The Ares Decision by Kyle Mills (Covert-One #8)
Ascend The Nile - A Kiwi-Brit Journey of Discovery, Adventure & Tragedy
The Boy Who Runs: The Odyssey of Julius Achon by Julius Achon
Cassandra by Violet Barungi
Child to Soldier: Stories from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army
The Coincidence Authority by John Ironmonger
Cranes Crest at Sunset by Dilman Dila
A Crazy Act in Uganda by John M.W. Smith
Crossroads: Women Coming of Age in Today's Uganda by Christopher Conte
The Deadly Ambition by Glaydah Namukasa
A Dissolving Dream: A New Zealander In Amin's Uganda by Heather Benson
A Distant Grief: The Real Story Behind the Martyrdom of Christians in Uganda
Ebola K: Book 1 by Bobby Adair (1st book in Ebola K series)
The Elephants by Robert Serumaga
The Experience by Eneriko Seruma
Fate of the Banished by Julius Ocwinyo
The First Daughter by Goretti Kyomuhendo
Fixions, & Other Stories by Taban Lo Liyong
Footprints of the Outsider by Julius Ocwinyo
Frenemy Matriarchs by MR Geoffrey Kiggundu
A Good African Story: How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee Brand
Hare And Hornbill by Okot p'Bitek
The Horn of My Love by Okot p'Bitek
The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda by Thor Hanson
In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
In Search Of Africa by Frank Coates
In the Light of Love by Deborah Fletcher Mello
The Invisible Weevil by Mary Karooro Okurut
The Kampala Peppermint Twist by Milou Koenings
A Killing in the Sun by Dilman Dila
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Let's Tell This Story Properly by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Making of the African Queen by Katharine Hepburn
Mama Jude: An Australian nurse's extraordinary other life in Afica
Memoirs of a Mother by Ayeta Anne Wangusa
The Mountain People by Colin M. Turnbull
My Cleaner by Maggie Gee
My Driver by Maggie Gee
The Night Wanderers by Wojciech Jagielski
The Official Wife by Mary Karooro Okurut
Oketcho and the Smugglers by Ebou Dibba
Origin East Africa: A Makerere Anthology by David Cook
The Outcasts by Bonnie Lubega
Pale Souls Abroad and Other Tales by Ulysses C. Kibuuka
The People's Bachelor by Austin Bukenya
The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
Return to the Shadows by Robert Serumaga
The Rift Walker by Clay Griffith (Vampire Empire #2)
The Seasons of Thomas Tebo by John Nagenda
A Sheltering Heart by Terri Reed
Shibli by Kehinde Dunsin Phd
Short East African Plays In English: Ten Plays In English by Miles Lee
The Sky High Road by Moses L. Howard
Song for the Sun in Us by Okello Oculi
Song Of A Prisoner by Okot p'Bitek
A State of Blood: The Inside Story of Idi Amin by Henry Kyemba
A Storm Blew in from Paradise by Johannes Anyuru
A Teacher in East Africa by Moses L. Howard
Tears of Hope. a Collection of Short Stories by Ugandan Rural Women
The Terminal Move by Dilman Dila
Twee chimpansees by Moses Isegawa
Two Songs: Song of Prisoner & Song of Malaya by Okot p'Bitek
Uganda: The Land and Its People by Godfrey Mwakikagile
Uganda's Katakiro in England by Ham Mukasa
The Unfulfilled Dream by Julius Ocwinyo
Upon This Mountain by Timothy Wangusa
Vain by Fisher Amelie (1st in The Seven Deadly series)
Voice of a Dream by Glaydah Namukasa
War Brothers by Sharon E. McKay
The Wizard Of The Nile by Matthew Green
A Woman's Voice by Mary Karooro Okurut
The Wrong Side of Eternity: A Present-Day Passion
Yoni's Last Battle: The Rescue at Entebbe, 1976 by Iddo Netanyahu

More books set in Uganda:


100 Days by Juliane Okot Bitek (mostly set in Rwanda)
Divine Collision by Jim Gash
The Ghosts of Eden by Andrew J.H. Sharp
A Midlife Crisis in Africa: My Misadventures in the Peace Corps
Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport by Saul David
A Pearl Beyond Price: Uganda Before Idi Amin by Rich Nemanich
The Shattered Pearl by Sara Armstrong
Sitwe Joseph Goes to School by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri (1st book in Sitwe Joseph Series)

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A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Kololo Hill by Neema Shah.

Everything Is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe.

Itinerant Townsmen: Friendship and Social Order in Urban Uganda by David Jacobson.

The Uganda Cult Tragedy: A Private Investigation by Bernard Atuhaire.

Ghosts of Kanungu: Fertility, Secrecy & Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa by Richard Vokes.

The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by V.S. Naipaul.

Orange for the Sunsets