Zambia

Books in this genre are set in or about Zambia.

The Old Drift
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Patchwork (Penguin African Writers)
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
The Mourning Bird
The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
A Cowrie of Hope
Scribbling the Cat
Mrs. Pollifax on Safari (Mrs. Pollifax, #5)
Leaving Before the Rains Come
Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
Baking Cakes in Kigali
The Eye of the Leopard
Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
The Furrows
The Old Drift by Namwali SerpellScribbling the Cat by Alexandra FullerThe Riddle of Violence by Kenneth D. KaundaCocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra FullerPatchwork by Ellen Banda-Aaku
Zambia
19 books — 6 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherDark Star Safari by Paul TherouxSo Many Africas by Jill KandelKilimanjaro and Beyond by Barry FinlayJourney Without Maps by Graham Greene
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Africa
121 books — 115 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

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerA Dry White Season by André BrinkThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William KamkwambaWe Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
Southern Africa
264 books — 72 voters
The Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuWild Seed by Octavia E. ButlerTimeless by Gail CarrigerSerpent's Kiss by Thea HarrisonEternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost
Paranormal Romance Set in Africa
22 books — 11 voters


Bruce Gilley
Partnership is nonsense. Germany helping Zambia, that is not partnership. That is a superior economic system helping another country improve itself. And that is also what late colonialism was: An embrace of the opportunity to improve the lot of others. But not as equals, no
Bruce Gilley

Aspire to do anything, start something and stop at nothing.
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