Africa



Library Suggestions (these are guidelines only- you can choose other books)

Alexander McCall Smith - No 1 Ladies Detective Agency

Robyn Scott - Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

Tim Butcher - Blood River

Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible

Ahdaf Soueif - The Map of Love

Nicholas Drayson - Guide to the Birds of East Africa

Hisham Matar - In the Country of Men

Chimamanda Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Ben Okri - The Famished Road

Gil Courtemanche - A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

Gaile Parkin - Baking Cakes in Kigali

J. M. Coetzee - The Life and Times of Michael K

Leila Aboulela - Lyrics Alley

Giles Foden - The Last King of Scotland


Non fiction

Karen Blixen - Out of Africa

Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier

Nelson Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom

Alexandra Fuller - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight


Teen Reads

Jason Wallace - Out of the Shadows

Elizabeth Laird - The Prince Who Walked With Lions

Benjamin Zephaniah - Refugee Boy

Deborah White - Wickedness

Anna Perera - The Glass Collector

Gillian Cross - Where I Belong

Sophie McKenzie - The Rescue