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
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Patchwork (Penguin African Writers)
The Mourning Bird
A Cowrie of Hope
Scribbling the Cat
The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
Leaving Before the Rains Come
Mrs. Pollifax on Safari (Mrs. Pollifax, #5)
Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival on the Streets of Lusaka
Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
Baking Cakes in Kigali
The Eye of the Leopard
Binti by Nnedi OkoraforWho Fears Death by Nnedi OkoraforThe City of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyAlif the Unseen by G. Willow WilsonA Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
SF & F Atlas - Africa
57 books — 17 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
266 books — 73 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 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)
1,903 books — 1,802 voters
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia SamatarThe Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose UtomiSon of the Storm by Suyi Davies OkungbowaEverfair by Nisi ShawlBlood Scion by Deborah Falaye
Africa-Influenced Epic Fantasy
41 books — 11 voters


Alexandra Fuller
“ There is a madman who lives on the road to Mkushi. Every full moon he comes out onto the tarmac and digs a deep trench across the road. Dad would like to find the madman and bring him back to the farm. 'Think what a strong bugger he is, eh?' 'Yes, but you could only get him to work when there was a full moon.' 'Which is twice as hard as any other Zambian. ...more ”
― Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

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