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
Zanzibar Uhuru by Anne M. ChappelBrick by Brick by Karen   ShermanLove, Life, and Elephants by Daphne SheldrickBloody Rwanda by Thomas HodgeThe Watermelon King by Daniel Royse
Books about East Africa
21 books — 14 voters
Zanzibar by Chris McIntyreLonely Planet Tanzania, Zanzibar & Pemba by Lonely PlanetParadise by Abdulrazak GurnahEmpires of the monsoon by Richard Seymour HallPainted Devils and the Land of Ordinary Men by Tuan Marais
Zanzibar
44 books — 7 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


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

Julius Nyerere
We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us. ...more
Julius Nyerere

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