Jama is forced home to his native Somalia, the land of his nomadic ancestors. They battle cataracts, disease, and disaster to attack the German navy and, in the process, fall in love. An Agatha Christie type novel set at an African pace it’ll put a smile on your face especially if you are travelling through Botswana. In this vivid, timeless novel, Sembene Ousmane envinces the color, passion, and tragedy of those formative years in the history of West Africa. I recommend Nelson Mandela’s autobiography – Long Walk to Freedom, and Unbowed by Wangari Maathai. The Cloths of Heaven by Sue Eckstein, novel set in West Africa (the Gambia). When the Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith (1964) – No list of African adventures would be complete without Wilbur Smith, the contemporary master of the genre. It is the chronicle of a six months collecting trip to the West African colony of British Cameroon (now Cameroon) that Durrell made with the highly regarded aviculturist and ornithologist John Yealland. For Fauziya Kassindja, an idyllic childhood in Togo, West Africa, sheltered from the tribal practices of polygamy and genital mutilation, ended with her beloved father’s sudden death. Armed with nothing but an iron will, he became a man of substance in Ouidah and the founder of a remarkable dynasty. Required fields are marked *. Mark Mathabane is poor and schooled in South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids are often occurrences. In The Last Brother, 1944 is coming to a close and nine-year-old Raj is unaware of the war devastating the rest of the world. As the country goes through various political upheavals from colony to socialist republic to civil war to peace and capitalism, the world outside seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of someone peeing on a balcony, or a man fleeing his pursuers. Smous, the tragi-comic anti-hero in Middlepost is something of a Lithuanian-African Don Quixote, set in a time of cultural cholera. Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi It is something of a fictional masterpiece and a great companion if you are travelling in Botswana. Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. It was recently nominated for … June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. God’s Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène . From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation. It has been replaced by a more serious type of book. In 1956 this book exploded into the world. The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Click to read more about Only A Dream by H. Rider Haggard. Your email address will not be published. Across the Southern Sudan, over the next 5 years, thousands of other boys did likewise, joining this stream of child refugees that became known as the Lost Boys. If you’re looking for more books set in Africa, check out these posts: These are just a few things I love using for reading and travel, which have special deals that I want to pass on to you! Robert Louis Stevenson’s 18th c. avenger-type adventure Kidnapped (1886). This is not considered a complete list of all the great adventure novels, so please take advantage of the comments section to share what other adventure novels you recommend to your fellow men. Written in a time when Africa seemed infinite and largely unexplored, at least from a Western point of view, Haggard’s classic adventure novel created a template still followed today—the Indiana Jones films owe a huge debt to Haggard, for example. Almost as if we’re eavesdropping, the history of Angola unfolds through the stories of those she sees from her window. All three are denizens of Orokos, a city scoured by chaotic storms that rearrange streets and turn children into glass. Dear Strong Black Woman: Letters of Nourishment and Reflection from One Strong Black Woman to Another Jennifer Sterling. Thanks for this! Your ticket to Africa awaits. The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah She is noted for numerous series of popular books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups.It was so ins-trusting for all . The Constant Gardener by John le Carré (2001) – As I was compiling this list, it struck me that the grand African adventure has fallen out of fashion in recent decades. Benjamin, Alepho, and Benson were raised among the Dinka tribe of Sudan. It is 1905 and Luis Bernardo Valenca, a thirty-seven-year-old bachelor and owner of a small shipping company, is revelling in Lisbon’s luxurious high society. Five feet long, with luminescent eyes and limb like fins, this bizarre creature, presumed to be extinct, was discovered in 1938 by an amateur icthyologist who recognized it from fossils dating back 400 million years. After a - ERHR32 from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912) – Arguably the most famous of all African adventures, this novel went on to spawn twenty-five sequels, numerous films, and even an Oscar-winning song. One of my favorite authors, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie touches on this in her TED Talk The Danger of A Single Story (which I highly recommend!) When I first began reading contemporary adventure-romance novels set in the incomparable beauty of Southern Africa, I had no difficulty finding something new to read each week. This list of books set in Africa is a literary trip through the continent, bringing this part of the world to life and most certainly inspiring some wanderlust! He ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores. With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. This may reflect events on the continent itself or a new sensibility among writers. The gripping and empathetic story will draw pupils into engaging imaginatively with what life would have been like for families living during this time of racial segregation. The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons—the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Set during the African campaigns of World War I, much of the drama—and enjoyment—of the novel comes from the unlikely pairing of a female missionary with an alcoholic boat captain, owner of the eponymous vessel. If you’re short on time, these are some of my personal highlights for books set in Africa: Half of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, Ghana Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, Ethiopia I was lucky to visit South Africa a few years ago; exploring bustling Cape Town, the areas of rugged coast surrounding it, the farmland of the Overburg and the wilderness of safari in Kruger National Park. Vago is a golem of metal and flesh. The author demonstrates that a story relating the impact of psychological and social forces on Africans can also focus mainly on conflicts within African society. Born an orphan, he never married, he never splurged; one good suit was good enough for him; and he never wandered from the straight and narrow. The coelacanth (see-lo-canth) is no ordinary fish. In this ambitious tale of a clan and of a nation, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break from the burden of their shared past and reconcile the inheritance of tradition and the modern world that is their future. A true … Brothers of the Sea by D.R. Haggard had traveled widely in Africa and fought in the Anglo–Zulu War. These stories take the reader through Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa. The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan Top 5 Must-read Africa Travel and Adventure books The 100th issue of Leisure Wheels, which goes on sale this week, features an Adventure Guide in association with Yokohama. An expedition is sent to deepest Congo to find a source of diamonds needed for the telecoms industry. Dangerous Love: A True Story of Tragedy, Faith, and Forgiveness in the Muslim World by Ray Norman TRAVEL ADVENTURE BOOKS Blood River. Haoua worships her elder brother, Abdelkrim, a serving soldier who sends money home to support the family. The lions and pythons that prowled beyond the village fences were the greatest threat they knew. Superstition dominates: now the islanders must sacrifice their possessions to the enraged ocean god. Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork. Your email address will not be published. He also served 34 years in the Australian Army Reserve including six month in Afghanistan in 2002. You gotta love this premise: those with criminal backgrounds are suddenly, magically “gifted” with animal familiars that they immediately love and are completely bound to. A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa This book tells of her unquenchable passion to better the lives of women and children in the face of poverty, unhappy marriages, and endless backbreaking work. South Africa is a country on the southern-most tip of Africa, which has beautiful beaches, plush green lands, cliffs and beaches that make it a really pleasant country to visit. Love this list! Coetzee Over the course of thirteen novels, Smith follows the Courtneys from the seventeenth century to modern times as they are caught up in some of the most tumultuous events on the continent. Originally called The Thin White Line, it is a classic men-on-a-mission story, set around mineral rights in a thinly disguised Rhodesia. It is a remarkable journey that takes us deep into the heart of a family both fractured and bound together by their love for one man. It is a ritual no woman can refuse. Instead, five million Jews have been deported to Madagascar, a tropical ghetto ruled by the SS. Equator by Miguel Sousa Tavares What of their lives will they manage to save? Where will you be traveling on your upcoming trip? It is here that Stuart meets Adanna, a young orphan fighting for survival in a community ravaged by tragedy and disease. It’s the story of true life adventuress Beryl Markham and her life growing up in Kenya “before Kenya was Kenya”. Tony Park is the author of 18 novels set in Africa and six non fiction biographies. When a young Algerian named Meursault kills a man, his subsequent imprisonment and trial are puzzling and absurd. “The natives have an ear still. By Night The Mountain Burns recounts the narrator’s childhood on a remote island off the West African coast, living with his mysterious grandfather, several mothers and no fathers. There has been no Holocaust. If you have any recommendations for books that I’ve missed, please let me know your thoughts in the comments below! The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. With no hope of escape, all they can do is try their best to stay alive—until Khadija comes into their lives. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they come across a set of notebooks that tell of his life. The problem is Amadou doesn’t know how much he and Seydou owe, and the bosses won’t tell him. Elsewhere in the hospital lies a dying man who was young during the country’s turbulent postcolonial years and has stories to tell that are far from heroic. Successful entrepreneur, owner of the island’s first automobile, a most serious, upright, and self-made businessman, Señor da Silva is the local success story. In contemporary Sierra Leone, a devastating civil war has left an entire populace with secrets to keep. Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan The higher the number the closer they are to paying off their debt and returning home to Baba and Auntie. And when Pumpkin’s father – the wealthy businessman JS – discovers her mother’s alcoholism it sets in motion a chain of events that come to define the rest of her life. Tale Away is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. It was he who wanted to coerce Malangana’s king and his people, the AmaMpondomise, into joining his battle – a scheme Malangana’s conscience could not allow. Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah A great read. Instead they were tricked into forced labor on a plantation in the Ivory Coast; they spend day after day living on little food and harvesting beans in the hot sun—dangerous, backbreaking work. I've read all of Wilbur Smith's books and his African adventure stories are magical and captivating. The searchers take with them state-of-the-art equipment and Amy, a gorilla who can communicate via sign language. I agree with the previous post. The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness This number is very important. he thought. However, when Lurie seduces one of his students, he sets in motion a chain of events that will shatter his complacency and leave him utterly disgraced. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. Welcome to Our Hillbrow: A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa (Modern African Writing Series) Phaswane Mpe. When the past catches up to him—nearly destroying him—Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him. The first novel written in English that was based on the African continent, and the first “Lost World” adventure. A haunting image that indicts him as a passive witness to gross injustice. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle’s dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast’s booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. Have some great books set in Africa that I’ve missed? No one can enter the city, or leave. , Your email address will not be published. Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen (pseudonym of author Karen Blixen). Another novel, just out, set in colonial Africa is “Circling the Sun” by Paula McClain. Children’s books set in Africa. He walked his way across 22 countries in 5 continents. Why is he going into that strange building with the green shutters? One of the best books about Africa, A Bend in the River has received much literary acclaim. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, this story and their own develop in tandem. McGuire picks 10 of his favorite adventure books. . Then came his art and more accolades, then the novels. Half of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Burroughs tells more than a just good story. Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen’s memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. Plane tickets are expensive, but that's where the beauty of armchair adventuring comes in. The Modern Library, in 1998, ranked the novel #83 on its list of the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century. Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz If you only read one book on this list, I urge you to try Heart of Darkness. In the capital hospital, a gifted young surgeon is plagued by demons that are beginning to threaten his livelihood. In the US it was an immediate bestseller, and the basis of a spectacular movie. Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Some Read 2 036 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a witty novel about the adventures and escapades of young Tom Sawyer growing up on the banks of the Mississippi river. Amid the chaos, screams, conflagration, and gunfire, 5-year-old Benson and 7-year-old Benjamin fled into the dark night. Hi Magdalena, I’m so glad to hear you enjoyed Homegoing! The refugee camps they eventually filtered through offered little respite from the brutality they were fleeing. Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja On the eve of Angolan independence an agoraphobic woman named Ludo bricks herself into her apartment for 30 years, living off vegetables and the pigeons she lures in with diamonds, burning her furniture and books to stay alive and writing her story on the apartment’s walls. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899) – A decade after King Solomon’s Mines, more serious writers were using the genre to explore issues of colonialism and the nature of evil. Kidder breaks new ground in telling this unforgettable story as he travels with Deo back over a turbulent life in search of meaning and forgiveness. And then one day Suleiman sees his father across the square of a busy marketplace, his face wrapped in a pair of dark sunglasses. She Would Be King by Wayetu Moore Now a young artist, this girl, Malaïka, travels to the troubled land of her birth in hope of finding her mother—and perhaps something of her lost self. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. The teachers try hard, once again, not to fall in love with her. Fara and her father’s slave, Tsito, have been close since her father bought the boy after his forest village was destroyed. Her in-laws accuse her of being a wicked witch who sacrificed her husband and children to the dark forces. But in the face of overwhelming odds, Adanna finds hope in a special dream, where she is visited by an illuminated man and given a precious gift. Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of a rare friendship between a young Peace Corps volunteer and a midwife who became a legend. But as Tsito looks forward to the bright promise of freedom and Fara, backward to a dark, long-denied family history, a rift opens between them just as British Christian missionaries and French industrialists arrive and violence erupts across the country. And from there, aboard a ship transporting Jewish refugees just released from German concentration camps, across the seas to Britain and freedom. To find a children’s travel book about a specific African country, click on the country. Set in a fantasy, historical, futuristic, or modern land, action adventure novels lend a note of excitement and urgency to our lives. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard. Love and innocence fall away, and Tsito and Fara’s world becomes enveloped by tyranny, superstition, and fear. Their world was an insulated, close-knit community of grass-roofed cottages, cattle herders, and tribal councils. Ndani is expelled from the house and drifts towards home, where she becomes the wife of a village chief. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese How could they be? I come from Moreno Valley—brown valley—in an area of California known colloquially as the Inland Empire, located three hours from Vegas, and two from the border.In the 80s and 90s, when I was growing up there, the I.E. But what’s most notable is a new sensitivity to the plight of Africans themselves. Beau Geste by P.C. This reading list aspires to capture the diversity of the region from a multitude of perspectives. My travels have taken me north to Morocco and south to South Africa; but there’s so much more I’d love to discover in-between. It also emerges that their father plans to take a second wife. Uganda’s history reimagined through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan in an award-winning debut. The higher the number the safer they are because the bosses won’t beat them. Through a series of flashbacks, we watch Kamal’s early years in the ancient coastal town of Kilwa, where he grows up in a world of poverty but also of poetry, sustained by his friendship with the magical Saida. I wrote my dissertation on it at university and it was a big influence on my own book, The Afrika Reich. Check out these children’s books set in Africa. The trouble coming stems from a long conflict, instigated in colonial times by Whites who treated Tutsis as superior to Hutus. Known as one of the greatest adventure novels of all time, Rafael Sabatini’s Captain Blood is a tale of swashbuckling adventure. David is a refugee, one of a group of Jewish exiles whose harrowing journey took them from Nazi occupied Europe to Palestine, where they were refused entry and sent on to indefinite detainment in Mauritius. Ian McGuire's The North Water is a dark, brilliant, old-fashioned yarn set on a 19th-century Yorkshire whaler in the dead of winter. But she was unable to forget it, and ten years later she finally decided to track down her surviving Eritrean family and embarked upon a journey that would take her far from the comfort zone of her metropolitan lifestyle to confront the poverty and oppression of a life that could so easily have been her own. Conrad had made a similar journey himself. We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo This list of books set in Ireland appears in chronological order; starting with the modern period, spanning through…, This year marks the third year of our World Reading Challenge; where we read one book per week,…, I love that books can transport us; even without leaving home. McGuire picks 10 of his favorite adventure books. Novels set in the English Civil War. Out of Africa by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) The Wild Geese by Daniel Carney (1978) – Against a real backdrop of wars, coups, and political unrest, the 1970s saw a number of novels about mercenaries in Africa, the best known being Frederick Forsyth’s The Dogs of War. Harmattan (from an Arabic word meaning destructive wind ) tells the story of Haoua, a young girl growing up in a remote village in the Republic of Niger. it tells of a search of an unexplored region of africa by a group of adventurers led by allan quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. I hope you’ll read Half of a Yellow Sun next, it’s one my all-time favorite books and I think you’ll love it! The novel’s ending is different from the film’s and continues to have the power to shock. Destinations, Novel travel, Rest of the World. Scared: A Novel On the Edge of the World by Tom Davis I am, therefore, opting for King Solomon’s Mines, about a group of explorers searching for a lost city in southern Africa. Here you’ll find curated lists of books set around the world. It is 1903. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. If their animal dies, so do they. Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest on our latest issue which features a John Grisham interview, plus insider offers, blog posts by today's bestselling authors, and much more! I'm a book and travel lover with a passion for making lists! Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. I hope you enjoy these books set in Africa; and enjoy traveling across the continent through literature. Here’s my choice of ten favorite titles: King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard (1885) – Pinning down the first African adventure is a tricky business. In my ideal world, I’d read a different…, I’ve always dreamt of taking the great American road trip and reading books set in each state along…, Italy is the 5th most visited country by international tourists, has the most UNESCO World Heritage sites in…, I spent last year reading my way around the world, tackling my first world reading challenge and traveling…, “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.” My book for…, An essential read for coffee lovers! But instead of spending the afternoon enjoying the waves and the water, father and daughter found themselves hurtling back to the city, each with a bullet-hole pumping blood into the floorboards of their jeep. They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng and Benjamin Ajak Arguably the finest piece of magic realism ever written about South Africa. He is interested in how civilization deprives us of our relationship with nature, and, in doing so, obscures man’s true nature. When in an extraordinary underwater adventure the boy meets a dolphin, he discovers that the fortunes of his father, his girl friend and himself now all depend on his beloved “brother of the sea”. Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Congo by Michael Crichton (1980) – Crichton takes many of the tropes of the African adventure novel—lost cities, exotic fauna, erupting volcanoes—and gives them a techno-thriller twist. List, I urge you to try Heart of Darkness a documentary filmmaker Quebec. 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