Tanzania

Books in this genre are set in or about Tanzania.

Paradise
Afterlives
By the Sea
Desertion
Theft
Gravel Heart
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
The Tree Where Man Was Born
The Magic of Saida
We All Went on Safari: A Counting Journey Through Tanzania
The Book of Secrets
Aftershocks
مذكرات أميرة عربية
Green Hills of Africa
The Lioness
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
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 — 265 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,759 books — 1,638 voters
Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseSketches from the Periphery by M.P. SummersWhere Tomorrow Leads by DiAnn MillsKintu by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
East Africa
251 books — 98 voters


Enock Maregesi
Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do not read, but that they don’t read because there are no interesting writers.
Enock Maregesi

Enock Maregesi
Kumwelewa Nyerere lazima uielewe Tanzania.
Enock Maregesi

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