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60 Africa Books

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Around Africa in an Armchair

Join our journey to explore Africa while at home.  We are reading one book per month from an African country or territory or across the continent.  These hand-picked titles showcase local authors and female authors, as well as a mix of genres.  Read any or all of the books, or just follow the reviews and comments, either way we hope you travel Africa with us on our 60 Africa Books Reading Challenge journey!

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60 Africa Books Reading Challenge

60 Africa Books Reading Challenge
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This group is reading 60 books set in Africa, one from each country and filling in the rest with reads encompassing the ethos of Africa. Our main focus is to learn something about the place through a good story be it fiction or nonfiction and no matter who the author, but we aim to chose local and/or woman authors, and happy endings.

Books we’ve read

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An Arid Eden: A Personal Account of Conservation in the Kaokoveld
Abyssinian Nomad: An African woman's journey of love, loss, and adventure from Cape to Cairo
The Last Brother
Baking Cakes in Kigali
Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu
Unbowed
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest
American Spy
The Old Drift
Black Moses
Small Country
When the Ground Is Hard
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
The Map of Love
My Fathers' Daughter
Kintu
Homegoing
Behold the Dreamers
Stranded in the Seychelles: Teachers in Paradise


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