Books set in Africa?

Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trepido

Hi,
I 3rd I dreamed of Africa by Kiki guliman - if I remember rightly it's a trilogy. Amazing read.

My late addition:

George Alegiah - a passage to Africa, great non fiction book

Aminata Forna - the memory of love, fiction set in sierra leone in the aftermath of the civil war, a beautiful book that made me cry. She's written several other books set in Africa, I've not got round to them yet though.

Sorry no wildlife though...

Just finished 'tiny sunbirds far away' it was a really good read

Limelight - I loved Nervous Conditions. So disappointed by the sequel though

If you are interested in nature, The Soul of the White Ant is great.

Also, The Lost World of the Kalahari

Second Graham Green, and also Unity Dow

Cutting for stone, it's set In Ethiopia. I loved it, it's a great read about 2 twins, the circumstances they are born In they become doctors and it's their story.

The Kramer and Zondi series of police detective novels set in apartheird-era South Africa during the 1970s and 80s - The Steam Pig, the Gooseberry Fool, The Caterpollar Cop, The Sunday Hangman.
Also I second the William Boyd books mentioned above -A Good Man In Africa, An Ice-Cream War (shortlisted for the Booker prize) and Brazzaville Beach.

Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido - fiction but semi-autobiographical and contains a lot of interesting stuff about the history of south africa.

My DS has just finished a book based in Ethiopia called The Garbadge King by Elizabeth Laird. It has won numerous awards and he really enjoyed it. I think it is more than just a childs book

I really enjoyed Prester John by John Buchan (who wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps). It's boys-adventure stuff and set in the early 20th Century when there were lots of animals around - amazing and v. atmospheric.

If you are interested in wildlife also have you read Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fosse or any of Jane Goodall's books about the chimpanzees at Gombe? Not fiction but Fossey in particular is very readable and her story is interesting.

Has anyone said Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche yet? I've read Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun. I couldn't read anything else for a week after the latter - which is saying something for me! It was amazing!

An additional vote from me for The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, along with the sequel Tandia and also Whitethorn by the same author. All 3 books are a great read, although quite upsetting in parts.

Books by Deon Meyer:

Trackers.

Thirteen Hours

Blood Safari

Have a look at his other books here: www.deonmeyer.com/

Second Tsitsi Dangarembga.

More Zimbabwean writers:
Yvonne Vera
? Why Don't you Carve Other Animals (short stories)
? Under the Tongue (novel)
? Butterfly Burning (novel)
? Nehanda (novel)

Dambudzo Marechara, the baaad boy of Zim lit.
? Scrapiron Blues (short pieces)

Masaemura Zimunya, intense lyrical poetry, often political.

And a Mozambican:
Mia Couto
? The Last Flight of the Flamingo.
How can anyone not like a book which opens: "To put it crudely and rudely, here's what happened: a severed penis was found right there on the trunk road just outside Tizangara. A large organ on the loose. Folk turned up from all around."

Both made into really good films - The Constant Gardner by John Le Carre and The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden (who has written several good bbooks set in Africa - Zanzibar, Ladysmith and Mimi and Totou go Forth).

A couple of non-fiction books on the history/politics of Africa that I have liked are Africa: A Biography of a Continent by John Reader and Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles by Richard Dowden

A really light but enjoyable travel book is Swahili for the Brokenhearted by Peter Moore

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. Unquestionably one of the best books I've ever read and not very well known.

the power of one - bryce courtenay

Russell Banks "The Darling", quite terrifying though.

Also Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher.

Poor title, but a good book nonetheless (not fiction - travel / adventure)

Cameroon with Egbert - Dervla Murphy

A fantastic piece of travel writing with the indomitable and only slightly nutty Murphy and her young daughter Rachel...and a horse named Egbert

Casting with a Fragile Thread - Wendy Kann, really good read but can't find my copy!

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Only available second hand but still pretty cheap

Oh and Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad.

For non-fiction, Congo Journey by Redmond O'Hanlon is good

The English Patient? Michael Ondaatje
The Famished Road (and some of Ben Okri's other stuff too - the short stories are good iirc).
Nadime Gordimer's short stories too - I enjoyed Not for Publication
And I'd second Things Fall Apart and Half of a Yellow Sun.

None of which have a wildlife theme. Oh well.