Tour of Africa

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One book per African country
1
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
8,078 members
318 reviews
4
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American Spy
by Lauren Wilkinson
989 members
53 reviews
½ 3.6
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Sahara
by Michael Palin
892 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
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A Treacherous Paradise
by Henning Mankell
599 members
23 reviews
½ 3.5
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What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
by Dave Eggers
7,259 members
173 reviews
4.1
7
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild
5,599 members
144 reviews
½ 4.3
8
Strength in What Remains
by Tracy Kidder
1,572 members
91 reviews
4
9
The Moor's Account
by Laila Lalami
1,122 members
55 reviews
4
10
The Informationist
by Taylor Stevens
980 members
90 reviews
½ 3.6
11
The Shadow King
by Maaza Mengiste
900 members
38 reviews
3.8
12
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
by Hisham Matar
879 members
38 reviews
4
13
The Old Drift
by Namwali Serpell
847 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6
14
How Beautiful We Were
by Imbolo Mbue
832 members
33 reviews
3.9
15
The Dark Child
by Camara Laye
796 members
23 reviews
½ 3.4
16
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
by Clemantine Wamariya
757 members
43 reviews
4.1
17
Aya
by Marguerite Abouet
701 members
41 reviews
½ 3.7
18
Djibouti
by Elmore Leonard
692 members
49 reviews
2.9
19
She Would Be King: A Novel
by Wayétu Moore
639 members
16 reviews
½ 3.6
20
A Foreign Country
by Charles Cumming
628 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
21
The Shadow Speaker
by Nnedi Okorafor
502 members
25 reviews
3.8
22
A Girl Is a Body of Water
by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
498 members
21 reviews
4.1
23
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
by Paul Theroux
493 members
30 reviews
3.8
24
A Carrion Death
by Michael Stanley
419 members
30 reviews
½ 3.7
25
The Lower River
by Paul Theroux
390 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
26
The Last Brother
by Nathacha Appanah
379 members
42 reviews
4
27
I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
by Michela Wrong
324 members
5 reviews
4.1
29
Vagabonds!
by Eloghosa Osunde
273 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
30
Instruments of Darkness
by Robert Wilson
257 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
31
Leopard at the Door
by Jennifer McVeigh
254 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
32
Black Moses
by Alain Mabanckou
246 members
11 reviews
½ 3.3
33
Red Island House: A Novel
by Andrea Lee
244 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
34
Chaka
by Thomas Mofolo
241 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
35
The Story of Egypt
by Joann Fletcher
195 members
3 reviews
3.8
36
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World
by Jay Bahadur
168 members
8 reviews
½ 3.3
37
The Last Tourist
by Olen Steinhauer
163 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
38
The Village of Waiting
by George Packer
154 members
1 review
3.8
39
The Arc of the Swallow
by S.J. Gazan
129 members
7 reviews
3.8
40
The African Equation
by Yasmina Khadra
125 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
41
When the Ground Is Hard
by Malla Nunn
124 members
5 reviews
4.2
42
The Gloaming
by Melanie Finn
122 members
9 reviews
4.1
43
I Am a Girl from Africa
by Elizabeth Nyamayaro
117 members
8 reviews
4
44
Dr. Knox: A novel
by Peter Spiegelman
112 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
45
The Eternal Audience of One
by Rémy Ngamije
108 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
46
Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen
by Linda M. Heywood
89 members
4.1
47
The Teller of Secrets
by Bisi Adjapon
77 members
3 reviews
3.8
48
Algeria Is Beautiful Like America
by Olivia Burton
57 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
49
Edge of Eden
by Helen Benedict
46 members
1 review
3.9
50
Told by Starlight in Chad
by Joseph Brahim Seid
39 members
5 reviews
½ 2.6
51
Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea
by Anna Badkhen
33 members
1 review
½ 3.5
52
Toufah
by Toufah Jallow
30 members
1 review
4.2
53
Selected Poems of Corsino Fortes
by Corsino Fortes
17 members
3
54
Airlift to Biafra: Breaching the Blockade
by Tony Byrne
6 members
1 review
½ 4.5