Books Set In Africa

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Beier, Ulli and Gerald Moore (ed.)
- The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry

Okeowo, Alexis
- A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Allison, Peter
- Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide

Head, Bessie
- When Rain Clouds Gather

Faye, Gaël
- Small Country

Schiff, Stacy
- Cleopatra: A Life

Selasi, Taiye
- Ghana Must Go

Quartey, Kwei
- Wife of the Gods

Hirsi Ali, Ayaan
- Infidel

Cooper, Helene
- Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Matar, Hisham
- The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between

Kamkwamba, William and Bryan Mealer
- The Boy who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

Hammer, Joshua
- The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts

Okeowo, Alexis
- A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Appanah, Nathacha
- The Last Brother

Achebe, Chinua
- Arrow of God
- The Education of a British-Protected Child
- Things Fall Apart

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Americanah
- Half of a Yellow Sun
- Purple Hibiscus
- The Thing Around Your Neck

Emecheta, Buchi
- The Joys of Motherhood

Okeowo, Alexis
- A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Unigwe, Chika
- On Black Sisters Street

Laye, Camara
- The Dark Child

Dongala, Emmanuel
- Little Boys Come from the Stars

Uwiringiyimana, Sandra
- How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

Bâ, Mariama
- So Long a Letter

Beah, Ishmael
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Hirsi Ali, Ayaan
- Infidel

Lindhout, Amanda and Sara Corbett
- A House in the Sky

Okeowo, Alexis
- A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Galgut, Damon
- The Good Doctor

Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla
- A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid

Mda, Zakes
- Ways of Dying

Noah, Trevor
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Nunn, Malla
- A Beautiful Place to Die

Tursten, Helene
- An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed

Van der Leun, Justine
- We Are Not Such Things: The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation

Hari, Daoud
- The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur

Okeowo, Alexis
- A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Gappah, Petina
- The Book of Memory

Huchu, Tendai
- The Hairdresser of Harare

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