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 on the Streets of Lusaka – An NPR Book of the Year and Gripping Narrative Nonfiction Masterpiece
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 FullerBlood on Their Hands by Bob Brink
Zambia
20 books — 7 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
265 books — 73 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 — 266 voters



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Kayambila Mpulamasaka

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

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