Madagascar

Books in this genre are set in or about Madagascar.

Beyond the Rice Fields
Red Island House
Return to the Enchanted Island
The Aye-Aye and I
Hot Ice
The Eighth Continent: Life, Death and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar
Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar
Flashman's Lady (The Flashman Papers, #6)
Voices from Madagascar Voix de Madagascar: An Anthology of Contemporary Francophone Literature/Anthologie de littérature francophone contemporaine (Volume 75) (Ohio RIS Africa Series)
Ghost of Chance
Muddling through in Madagascar
Lords and Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings with Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar
A History of Madagascar
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
Ibonia
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia SamatarThe Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose UtomiSon of the Storm by Suyi Davies OkungbowaBlood Scion by Deborah FalayeEverfair by Nisi Shawl
Africa-Influenced Epic Fantasy
21 books — 8 voters
Wrapped Up in You by Carole MatthewsTinderbox by Rachel  GrantThe Rival in South Africa by Liz AldenThe Sweetest Remedy by Jane IgharoJana Goes Wild by Farah Heron
African Romances
34 books — 1 voter

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeNo Longer at Ease by Chinua AchebeSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihA Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oThe River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
African Writers Series
239 books — 63 voters


Misitia Ravaloson
Public transport at 5am is nobody's idea of a good time, but buses in Madagascar are a whole other level of miserable. They are Spartan, to say the least. Getting a seat on these buses should be an Olympic sport ...more
Misitia Ravaloson, The Eucalyptus Tree

David Graeber
The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only tall tales and confusion in his wake, is, perhaps, just as much a figure of the Enlightenment as Voltaire or Adam Smith, but he also represents a profoundly proletarian vision of liberation, necessarily violent and ephemeral. Modern factory discipline was born on ships and on plantations. It was only l ...more
David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

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