Eritrea

Books in this genre are set in or about Eritrea.

I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
Silence Is My Mother Tongue
The Consequences of Love
رغوة سوداء
My Fathers' Daughter
Black Mamba Boy
تيتانيكات أفريقية
Gratitude in Low Voices
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Cutting for Stone
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families
To Asmara
Heart of Fire: One Girl's Extraordinary Journey from Child Soldier to Soul Singer
The Conscript
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)
1,746 books — 1,617 voters
Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersWhere Tomorrow Leads by DiAnn MillsKintu by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
East Africa
251 books — 97 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
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWhat the Earl Desires by Aliyah BurkeThe Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuHer Reluctant Viscount by Aliyah BurkeA Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory
Africans in Romance
39 books — 11 voters

A Thorned Rose in the Sand by Lea BronsenWhere Tomorrow Leads by DiAnn MillsBest Laid Plans by Stylo FantomeKaribu Keňa by Hana HindrákováDobrovolnice by Hana Hindráková
Romance Novels Set in Africa
112 books — 38 voters
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia SamatarThe Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose UtomiSon of the Storm by Suyi Davies OkungbowaEverfair by Nisi ShawlBlood Scion by Deborah Falaye
Africa-Influenced Epic Fantasy
21 books — 8 voters


Patrick Kingsley
For a start, people who traveled for so many miles through such horrific conditions in order to find work cannot accurately be portrayed as lazy benefit-scroungers
Patrick Kingsley

I love you so much, Sahra. You will do wonderful things. Have courage and believe in yourself.
Abeba Habtu, Become Courageous Abeba: A Story of Love, Loss, War and Hope

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