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
The Lioness
Aftershocks
مذكرات أميرة عربية
The Last Gift
Nightbloom by Peace Adzo MedieA spell of good things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀Hangman by Maya BinyamMaame by Jessica GeorgeRiver Spirit by Leila Aboulela
100 Notable African Books of 2023
99 books — 5 voters
Song of the Butterflies by Robert M. LeslieThe End of Terror by Bruce HowittNot Just Yet. Egypt 2011 by Mohamed Abdel-MaksoudLife and Death in Nyamata by Omar NdizeyeMinna, Saturday by Chizzy Ndukwe N.
Best Debut Short Stories From Africa!
13 books — 20 voters

The Rutland Mule Matter by Richard Lee CroninNobody's Children by WD OliveWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreMy Whirlwind Lives by Dee KnightApi's Berlin Diaries by Gabrielle Robinson
War History Non Fiction
26 books — 16 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)
1,902 books — 1,801 voters

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
72 books — 22 voters
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
241 books — 69 voters


Enock Maregesi
“ Kiswahili ni lugha ya Kibantu na lugha kuu ya kimataifa ya biashara ya Afrika ya Mashariki ambayo; maneno yake mengi yamepokewa kutoka katika lugha za Kiarabu, Kireno, Kiingereza, Kihindi, Kijerumani na Kifaransa, kutoka kwa wakoloni waliyoitawala pwani ya Afrika ya Mashariki katika kipindi cha karne tano zilizopita. Lugha ya Kiswahili ilitokana na lugha za Kisabaki za Afrika Mashariki; ambazo nazo zilitokana na Lugha za Kibantu za Pwani ya Kaskazini Mashariki za Tanzania na Kenya, zilizotokana ...more ”
― Enock Maregesi

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

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