Somalia

Books in this genre are set in or about Somalia.

Infidel
Desert Flower
The Orchard of Lost Souls
A House in the Sky
Black Mamba Boy
When Stars Are Scattered
Maps
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Call Me American: A Memoir
Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed
The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World
North of Dawn
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
Binti by Nnedi OkoraforThe City of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyWho Fears Death by Nnedi OkoraforEverfair by Nisi ShawlLagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
SF & F Atlas - Africa
57 books — 16 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherChasing the Devil by Tim ButcherSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMy Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Great Modern African Reads
88 books — 56 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



Diriye Osman
Who do I write for? I thought about this again and again over the next few days until the answer crystalized in my consciousness. I write for all readers. But my primary interest is in representing the complex but universal experience of Somalis. I do this because the media representation of the global Somali community is one that is carved out of derivative clichés crammed with pirates, warlords, terrorists, passive women and girls whose entire existence seems to be nothing more than a footnote ...more
Diriye Osman

Nadifa Mohamed
Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of the ocean - you are missed, her dreams seem to say.
Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls

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