Books set in africa?

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Looking for recommendations on books similar to 'a thousand splendid suns', 'half a yellow moon' etc.
Really enjoyed these and a few others buy the same authors and looking for some new ones.
Thanks

I came on to suggest Nervous Conditions - brilliant depiction of the conflict of growing up with western and African influences.

Anthills of the Savannah by Achebe is really very good too.

Dare I suggest Heart of Darkness as well??

Travels With My Aunt - Graham Greene

Second for Blood River - one mad english journalist travels the length of the Congo.

Also for Le Carre's The Constant Gardener.

The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series. Engaging at the time but not sure I'd read them twice.

A Sunday at the pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche. Awfully depressing account of the genocide in Rwanda but worthwhile reading.
The constant gardener is great in book and in film (though the book is superior).

There's a lot of good non-fiction about Africa:

Agree with Hartley's The Zanzibar Chest, mentioned above.

Towards Asmara, by Thomas Keneally (fiction). If you like that one, Justin Hill's Ciao, Asmara is interesting in terms of what happened after the war was won in Eritrea.

Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari - irritating but intriguing.

Might be hard to get hold of, but I really like a young Kenyan writer called Binyavanga Wainana. I love his short memoir, Discovering Home, but you might like this article by him about cliches in writing about Africa: see here

Also there's a young Ethiopian-American writer you might like, Dinaw Mengistu.

William Boyd has a couple set in Africa - A Good Man in Africa, and An Ice Cream War - both good reads.

I enjoyed the Wainana article. One of his books was serialised on the radio and it's on my huge wishlist of Kindle books, but I will find a copy at some point (may have to search library catalogues now as I have to curb my spending on books)

Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd. It is a fantastic, wonderful, wonderful book.

See here, too.

I'd second a lot of the ones already recommended - Last King of Africa (& others by Giles Foden), Poisonwood Bible, Memory of Love, Brazzaville Beach (& others by Boyd).

Has no one mentioned classics like Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart'? I think that was one of the first African novels by an African to be widely read in the UK.

Oops, just read more of thread and realised Achebe was mentioned already. Essential reading.

My DH really enjoyed 'Africa - Altered States, Ordinary Miracles' by Richard Dowden. Not a novel obviously but a good read.

One of the most interesting non-fiction books I've read is King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild. It is about the exploitation of the Congo in the late 19th century. A fascinating book about colonialism.

Another vote for Brazzaville Beach, and I don't think anyone has mentioned The Sheltering Sky yet (although that's more North Africa).

of the wild www.amazon.com/Rules-Wild-A-Novel-Africa/dp/0375703438/ref=sr_1_75?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339464285&sr=1-75 though it's many years since i read it.

Sorry!

Rules of the Wild

Also 'Looking for Transwonderland' by Noo Saro-Wiwa, where she travels around Nigeria having not been there since her father's murder nearly 20 years ago. Fascinating stuff, especially as she's Nigerian but an expat. Her take on Nigeria is both inspiring and depressing but very funny too.

And 'Beyond the Devils Teeth' by Tahir Shah - guy travels round India, then across Africa, then in South America, starting as a total knob but growing up in the process.

The Cry Of The Go Away Bird. Amazing book.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?s collection of short stories "The Thing around Your Neck" is wonderful

The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett. Irish man and Italian woman in the Congo. It was very good.

And 'Don't lets go to the dogs tonight,' by Alexander Fuller is meant to be very good (about English girl? growing up in Africa). Haven't read it yet but love the title.

Everything Good Will Come; Swallow; and News From Home by Sefi Atta

Mukiwa by Peter Godwin is a good read about his childhood & growing up in Southern Rhodesia. I enjoyed it. I also learned a lot from many of Wilbur Smith's books. Particularly the older ones. I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallman. I have to say I haven't read much about modern Africa. I do however love reading about the days of colonialism & the dying of it.