Namibia

Books in this genre are set in or about Namibia.

The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
The Eternal Audience of One
The Sheltering Desert
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
Mama Namibia
Binti (Binti, #1)
The Old Way: A Story of the First People
I Am Not Your Slave: A Memoir
The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
Embassy Wife
Born of the Sun: A Namibian Novel
Soul of a Lion: One Woman's Quest to Rescue Africa's Wildlife Refugees
Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
The Lost World of the Kalahari
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
547 books — 266 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 No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerA Dry White Season by André BrinkThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William KamkwambaWe Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
Southern Africa
265 books — 73 voters


Paul Theroux
Many travelers are essentially fantasists. Tourists are timid fantasists, the others - risk takers - are bold fantasists. The tourists at Etosha conjure up a fantastic Africa after their nightly dinner by walking to the fence at the hotel-managed waterhole to stare at the rhinos and lions and eland coming to drink: a glimpse of wild nature with overhead floodlights. They have been bused to the hotel to see it, and it is very beautiful, but it is no effort....My only boast in travel is my effort. ...more
Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

Arianna Dagnino
Muscles relax, the mind expands. The vastness enters into the skin like a shot. ‘Our’ time dissolves.
Arianna Dagnino, The Afrikaner

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