Ethiopia

Books in this genre are set in or about Ethiopia.

Cutting for Stone
The Shadow King
Beneath the Lion's Gaze
The Emperor: Downfall of An Autocrat
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood
Sweetness in the Belly
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
The Wife's Tale: A Personal History
A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991
Yes, Chef
All Our Names
Say You're One of Them
Black Dove White Raven
How to Read the Air
Binti by Nnedi OkoraforWho Fears Death by Nnedi OkoraforThe City of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyAlif the Unseen by G. Willow WilsonA Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
SF & F Atlas - Africa
57 books — 17 voters
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza MengisteMaps by Nuruddin FarahThe Shadow King by Maaza MengisteNotes from the Hyena's Belly by Nega MezlekiaThe Conscript by Gebreyesus Hailu
Reading the Horn of Africa
38 books — 9 voters

Mr. Impossible by Loretta ChaseAs You Desire by Connie BrockwayThe Other Guy's Bride by Connie BrockwayA Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna RaybournMr. Impossible by Loretta Chase
Historical Romance Set in Africa
55 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)
1,915 books — 1,815 voters


“ Today, as a result of the increased activity that European nations are putting into expanding their relations with the most remote peoples of the East, and as a result of the repercussions of England's latest relations with Theodore, I thought that my work would not be without utility. I have just resumed it, and I offer it with the confidence that comes from a task faithfully fulfilled, and with the reserve that befits one who, like myself, undertakes to produce a collection of facts and charac ...more ”
― Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, Twelve Years in Upper Ethiopia (Translated): Twelve Years' Residence in Highland Ethiopia

“ After the rise and decline of Greek civilisation and the Roman destruction of the city of Carthage, they made one area of the conquered territories into a province which they called Africa, a word derived from "afri" and the name of a group of people about whom little is known. At first the word applied only to the Roman colonies of North Africa. There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called "Ethiopians," for the Greeks referred to Africa as "the Land of the Burnt-face People". ...more ”
― John Henrik Clarke

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