Senegal

Books in this genre are set in or about Senegal.

So Long a Letter
At Night All Blood is Black
La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
God's Bits of Wood
Xala
Ambiguous Adventure
The Beggars' Strike
Three Strong Women
Scarlet Song
Le Ventre de l'Atlantique
Beyond the Door of No Return
Le Baobab Fou
Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks (African Humanities and the Arts)
Brotherhood
The Message
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
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

God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane SembèneSo Long a Letter by Mariama BâXala by Ousmane SembèneThe Abandoned Baobab by Ken BugulThe Beggars' Strike by Aminata Sow Fall
Senegalese Reading List
25 books — 4 voters



Marie NDiaye
The beam of light flashed across her own face and she thought, Yes, me, Khady Demba, still happy to utter her name silently and to sense its apt harmony with the precise, satisfying image she had of her own features and of the Khady heart that dwelled within her to which no one but she had access.
Marie NDiaye, Three Strong Women

Hank Bracker
Little heard of, Dakar with a population of over a million people is the capital and largest city of Senegal. Counting the surrounding area, the population would go well over 2,000,000. This would be our last landing for fuel, before our arrival in Liberia. Our DC-6 took a long turn over the Atlantic and made a slow decent to the runway of the “Aéroport international de Dakar” just north of Dakar. The Portuguese founded Dakar in 1444, as a base for the export of slaves. Dakar came under French r ...more
Captain Hank Bracker, "Salty & Saucy Maine"

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