Liberia

Books in this genre are set in or about Liberia.

She Would Be King
The House at Sugar Beach
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Journey Without Maps
Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit
The Darling
Dream Country
A Marker to Measure Drift
Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It
Allah Is Not Obliged
And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation
The Mask of Anarchy Updated Edition: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War
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
Roastmaster by Janice LierzWhere There Was Fire by John Manuel AriasSophie Washington by Tonya Duncan EllisGirl Off the Grid by Jillian DoddYellow Buses From Costa Rica by William Gregg
Pura Vida! Fiction set in Costa Rica
103 books — 11 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
40 books — 10 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

The Lazarus Effect by H.J. GolakaiLaughter of a Crazy Man by Michel DioubateMurder in the Cassava Patch by Bai T. MoorePalm Wine Love by Lionel BernardThe marriage of wisdom, and other tales by Wilton Sankawulo
Liberian Literature
39 books — 2 voters
Chasing the Devil by Tim ButcherThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahPurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
West Africa
201 books — 88 voters


Hank Bracker
Present day interactions between the races are directly related to what happened many generations ago. Although we as a people are not directly to blame for what happened those many years ago, many of us do carry with us a collective guilt or shame that can only be attributed to these events. However, we are responsible for how we interact with people of all races now. I am of the opinion that how we feel and act towards others, to a great extent came to us from our elders and the society that w ...more
Captain Hank Bracker, The History of Liberia & West Africa

Hank Bracker
Liberia is a country on the “Pepper Coast,” which in many ways mirrors the United States. While it has not been easy, the willingness of its dedicated, hardworking people has never subsided. Hopefully their endeavor to obtain a more perfect country will continue and perhaps the day will come when they can once again take the lead in Africa to find a brighter future. During the mid-1950’s I witnessed the effects of the sudden affluence that came with the mining of gold and blood diamonds in the i ...more
Captain Hank Bracker, "Salty & Saucy Maine",

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