This literary map of Africa will be really useful. Thanks.

Yes, preferably by someone who has lived there (this is my self-imposed rule). It doesn't have to be a native, but the closer I can get to a local writer, the better. I'll count Peace Corps workers or scientists if they spent at least two years in a country, or an ethnography or qualitative study that provides a print voice for local people.

Here's a Comoran publishing house: KomEdit, http://rentf4holidays.net/

Unfortunately, French is a slog for me, though slog I shall if necessary. I'm playing around on Amazon.fr at the moment to see if I can get any of these books.

ETA: Une suite à Moroni Blues is available from France if I want to spend over 10 euro in shipping. I may wait on that. Here are 13 poems by a Comoran poet: http://www.adjmael-halidi.com/articles.p...

So you need to find something by a person from Comoros, not just something written by a person who visited there...like a piece of travel lit or journalism?

Possibly, but it's a pretty destitute country all around.

ETA: In other words, I'm not seeing a lot of publication even by the government.

Hm. I know nothing about comoros...are there individual islands you could use to find something?

It's sometimes "Comoro," but it used to be a French possession under the same name. I've found reference to some materials in French but nothing translated into English. I've identified A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth as a book whose author spent a fair amount of time in the Comoros islands.

I wonder ... Did Comoros ever have a different name or names?

I was happy to find it, though it does me no good for Comoros!

yeah, this is pretty awesome! i had not seen it before. thanks, shoshana!

Interesting. I had not seen this before. Looking at the Ghana list of authors, I can certainly think of some additions, including at least one member of this GoodReads group. But there is space to interact and update their lists, so I suspect some of us have some work to do

Thanks for posting the link!! that map is fantastic! Should help heaps with future book selections (and as a general book source!).

Wow, this is a great site. Thank you!

I thought I'd start a separate thread for this topic. Here's one resource:

Literary Map of Africa: http://library.osu.edu/sites/aflitmap/af...