Books Set In Africa

1

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

by Nelson Mandela

4,624 members

60 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, TanjaNayak
Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

2

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,510 members

414 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Bretzky1, ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Nigeria

3

Cry of the Kalahari: Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness

by Mark Owens

545 members

15 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, TanjaNayak
Explanations: ahef1963: Botswana

4

Out of Africa

by Karen Blixen

4,985 members

98 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, TanjaNayak
Explanations: ahef1963: Kenya before its independence from Britain.

5

A Bend in the River

by V. S. Naipaul

3,089 members

57 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, TanjaNayak
Explanations: ahef1963: unnamed African country

6

A Grain of Wheat

by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

888 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, TanjaNayak
Explanations: ahef1963: Kenya

7

Disgrace

by J. M. Coetzee

10,461 members

261 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

8

Picture Perfect

by Jodi Picoult

2,860 members

46 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

9

A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

by Linda Sue Park

3,205 members

149 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, TanjaNayak
Explanations: ahef1963: South Sudan

10

Jock of the Bushveld

by Percy Fitzpatrick

335 members

7 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, TanjaNayak
Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

11

Gorillas in the Mist

by Dian Fossey

1,004 members

15 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, TanjaNayak
Explanations: ahef1963: Rwanda

12

Life & Times of Michael K

by J. M. Coetzee

2,720 members

67 reviews

3.8

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Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

13

Mine Boy

by Peter Abrahams

180 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Bretzky1

14

July's People

by Nadine Gordimer

1,716 members

37 reviews

½ 3.5

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Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

15

The Conservationist

by Nadine Gordimer

764 members

23 reviews

3.2

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Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

16

The Bafut Beagles

by Gerald Durrell

660 members

13 reviews

3.9

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Explanations: ahef1963: Cameroon

17

Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons: A Journey to the Flora and Fauna of a Unique Island

by Gerald Durrell

357 members

8 reviews

3.9

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Explanations: ahef1963: Mauritius

18

Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind

by Donald C. Johanson

1,027 members

8 reviews

4

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Explanations: ahef1963: Ethiopia

19

The White Lioness

by Henning Mankell

3,042 members

89 reviews

½ 3.7

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Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

20

The No. 1 Ladiesʼ Detective Agency

by Alexander McCall Smith

13,626 members

391 reviews

½ 3.7

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Explanations: ahef1963: Botswana

21

The Nun's Story

by Kathryn Hulme

480 members

9 reviews

3.9

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Explanations: ahef1963: In what was once called the Belgian Congo.

22

My Traitor's Heart

by Rian Malan

639 members

11 reviews

½ 4.3

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Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

23

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

33,681 members

481 reviews

3.9

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Explanations: ahef1963: Algeria when it was still part of France.

24

The Plague

by Albert Camus

17,538 members

230 reviews

4

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Explanations: ahef1963: Algeria when it was still part of France.

25

A House in the Sky: A Memoir

by Amanda Lindhout

999 members

58 reviews

4.1

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Explanations: ahef1963: Somalia

26

The Shadow of the Sun

by Ryszard Kapuściński

1,996 members

50 reviews

4.2

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Explanations: ahef1963: All over the continent.

27

Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton

8,940 members

174 reviews

4

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Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

28

Too Late the Phalarope

by Alan Paton

650 members

12 reviews

3.8

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Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

29

Palace Walk

by Naguib Mahfouz

2,670 members

56 reviews

4

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Explanations: ahef1963: Egypt

30

Sahara

by Michael Palin

792 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

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Explanations: ahef1963: In several North African countries.

31

Biko {1st ed.}

by Donald Woods

100 members

½ 4.7

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Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

32

The Unfortunate Marriage of Azeb Yitades

by Nega Mezlekia

13 members

½ 4.5

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Explanations: ahef1963: Ethiopia

33

Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood

by Nega Mezlekia

217 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

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Explanations: ahef1963: Ethiopia

34

We Need New Names

by NoViolet Bulawayo

1,292 members

84 reviews

½ 3.7

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Explanations: ahef1963: Zimbabwe

35

Long Way Down

by Ewan McGregor

627 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

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Explanations: ahef1963: Throughout Africa.

36

419

by Will Ferguson

578 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

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Explanations: ahef1963: Nigeria

37

The Book of Secrets

by M. G. Vassanji

347 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

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Explanations: ahef1963: Tanzania

38

Journey Without Maps

by Graham Greene

724 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

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Explanations: ahef1963: Liberia

39

The Kalahari Killings: The True Story of a Wartime Double Murder in Botswana, 1943

by Jonathan Laverick

1 member

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Botswana

40

The Lost World of the Kalahari

by Laurens van der Post

489 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Botswana (at the time part of South Africa)

41

A Beautiful Place to Die

by Malla Nunn

540 members

39 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

42

Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi

4,964 members

260 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Ghana

43

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

6,489 members

291 reviews

4.2

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Explanations: ahef1963: Nigeria

44

Chronicler of the Winds

by Henning Mankell

661 members

21 reviews

3.9

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Explanations: ahef1963: Mozambique

45

Catch Me a Colobus

by Gerald Durrell

437 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

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Explanations: ahef1963: Sierra Leone

46

The Aye-Aye and I: A Rescue Journey to Save One of the World's Most Intriguing Creatures from Extinction

by Gerald Durrell

261 members

11 reviews

3.8

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Explanations: ahef1963: Madagascar

47

Born Free

by Joy Adamson

1,186 members

23 reviews

3.9

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Explanations: ahef1963: Kenya

48

The Spotted Sphinx

by Joy Adamson

132 members

1 review

3.9

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Explanations: ahef1963: Kenya

49

The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver

25,352 members

494 reviews

4.2

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Explanations: ahef1963: Democratic Republic of the Congo

50

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,361 members

367 reviews

½ 3.6

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Explanations: ahef1963: The Congo River

51

The Grass Is Singing

by Doris Lessing

2,116 members

74 reviews

3.9

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Explanations: ahef1963: Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)

52

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

5,387 members

126 reviews

½ 3.6

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Explanations: ahef1963: A fictional landscape within South Africa

53

God's Bits of Wood

by Ousmane Sembene

645 members

9 reviews

4

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Explanations: ahef1963: Senegal

54

What Is the What

by Dave Eggers

6,617 members

161 reviews

4.1

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Explanations: ahef1963: Sudan

55

The Story of an African Farm

by Olive Schreiner

1,031 members

27 reviews

½ 3.3

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Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

56

So Long a Letter

by Mariama Bâ

1,251 members

40 reviews

3.8

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Explanations: ahef1963: Senegal

57

Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

4,674 members

116 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: unspecified Western coastal region

58

Say You're One of Them

by Uwem Akpan

2,089 members

67 reviews

½ 3.6

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Explanations: ahef1963: Nigeria

59

I Dreamed of Africa

by Kuki Gallmann

599 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

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Explanations: ahef1963: Kenya

60

West with the Night

by Beryl Markham

3,437 members

127 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Kenya

61

Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa

by Antjie Krog

488 members

7 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

62

Purple Hibiscus

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4,221 members

178 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Nigeria

63

A Good Man in Africa

by William Boyd

1,086 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: fictional West African country of Kinjanja

64

In the Country of Men

by Hisham Matar

1,239 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

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Explanations: ahef1963: Libya

65

The Bride Price

by Buchi Emecheta

250 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Nigeria

66

A Dry White Season

by André Brink

757 members

23 reviews

4

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Explanations: ahef1963: South Africa

67

My Father's Wives

by Jose Eduardo Agualusa

109 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

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Explanations: ahef1963: Angola

68

Chaff on the Wind (Macmillan modern writers)

by Ebou Dibba

6 members

3.8

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Explanations: ahef1963: The Gambia

69

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

6,850 members

305 reviews

4

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Explanations: ahef1963: Sierra Leone

70

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda

by Philip Gourevitch

3,319 members

66 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Rwanda

71

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

by Roméo Dallaire

1,617 members

31 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Rwanda

72

The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

4,863 members

84 reviews

3.9

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Explanations: ahef1963: Sierra Leone

73

A Burnt-Out Case

by Graham Greene

1,804 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Somewhere on the upper reaches of the Congo River

74

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

by Alexandra Fuller

3,405 members

109 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Malawi, Zambia

75

The Famished Road

by Ben Okri

2,261 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: not entirely clear, but probably Nigeria

76

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

by Ernest Hemingway

3,672 members

55 reviews

½ 3.7

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Explanations: ahef1963: Tanzania

77

A Far-Off Place

by Laurens van der Post

274 members

5 reviews

4.2

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Explanations: ahef1963: Namibia (while still a protectorate of South Africa)

78

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

by Peter Godwin

852 members

36 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Zimbabwe

79

In the Shadow of Man

by Jane Goodall

1,264 members

13 reviews

4.2

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Explanations: ahef1963: Tanzania

80

Hideous Kinky

by Esther Freud

946 members

28 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963
Explanations: ahef1963: Morocco

81

Abyssinian Chronicles

by Moses Isegawa

492 members

10 reviews

½ 3.3

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