Botswana

Books in this genre are set in or about Botswana.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Botswana"

The House of Unexpected Sisters (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #18)
Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles, #11)
Larger Than Life
Precious and Grace (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #17)
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #16)
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #14)
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #15)
Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion (Precious Ramotswe's Very First Cases, #3)
White Dog Fell from the Sky
Deadly Harvest (Detective Kubu, #4)
Detective Kubu Investigates
Torn Trousers: A True Story of Courage and Adventure: How A Couple Sacrificed Everything To Escape to Paradise
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #3)
The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #6)
Blue Shoes and Happiness (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #7)
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #10)
The Double Comfort Safari Club (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #11)
The Full Cupboard of Life (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #5)
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #8)
The Miracle at Speedy Motors (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #9)
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #13)
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #12)
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #14)
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #15)
The Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuWild Seed by Octavia E. ButlerTimeless by Gail CarrigerSerpent's Kiss by Thea HarrisonEternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost
Paranormal Romance Set in Africa
22 books — 11 voters
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiAya by Marguerite AbouetNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Tour d'Afrique
71 books — 21 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,788 books — 1,669 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Fictitious Africa
551 books — 270 voters



Because of the heat and the lack of water and materials for shelter, much of the Central Kalahari has remained unexplored and unsettled. From our camp there was no village around the corner or down the road. There was no road. We had to haul our water a hundred miles through the bushveld, and without a cabin, electricity, a radio, a television, a hospital, a grocery store, or any sign of other humans and their artifacts for months at a time, we were totally cut off from the outside world.
Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari

Thabo Katlholo
At one level the story of the second fall of Zimbabwe can be read as tragic yet a courageous one: a simple but soaring binary about unfounded courage in the face of immeasurable oppression. But at another level, it is a window into a much more complex, perhaps even darker and sadder, narrative about contemporary slaveship and the terrible collision of aspiration and frustration and the need to survive that has been unleashed upon the people of Zimbabwe. Exploitation and oppression are not matter ...more
Thabo Katlholo, The Mud Hut I Grew Upon

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