East Africa

1.
Cutting for Stone
Cutting for Stone 4.33 avg rating — 417,406 ratings
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Where Tomorrow Leads (Hope of Sudan #2)
Where Tomorrow Leads (Hope of Sudan #2) 4.52 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Kintu
Kintu 4.11 avg rating — 4,365 ratings
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Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North 3.72 avg rating — 32,268 ratings
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Unbowed: A Memoir
Unbowed: A Memoir 4.07 avg rating — 6,929 ratings
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children 4.26 avg rating — 3,402 ratings
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Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Beneath the Lion's Gaze 3.96 avg rating — 3,749 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
The Hospital by the River 4.10 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
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The Challenge for Africa
The Challenge for Africa 4.05 avg rating — 967 ratings
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A House in the Sky
A House in the Sky 4.28 avg rating — 70,671 ratings
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Yohannes Ishi
Yohannes Ishi 3.73 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Wait for God to Notice
Wait for God to Notice 4.27 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Nobody´s Children
Nobody´s Children 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The First Woman
The First Woman 4.15 avg rating — 8,335 ratings
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In Ethiopia with a Mule
In Ethiopia with a Mule 3.95 avg rating — 462 ratings
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The Emperor
The Emperor 4.08 avg rating — 8,970 ratings
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Snows of Kilimanjaro 3.79 avg rating — 46,671 ratings
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Sweetness in the Belly
Sweetness in the Belly 3.91 avg rating — 9,460 ratings
19.
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book 4.02 avg rating — 909 ratings
20.
Karibu Keňa
Karibu Keňa 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
21.
Dobrovolnice
Dobrovolnice 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
22.
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale 4.20 avg rating — 2,653 ratings
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya 4.05 avg rating — 1,492 ratings
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Očarovaná
Očarovaná really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Circling the Sun
Circling the Sun 3.94 avg rating — 81,020 ratings
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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood 4.10 avg rating — 6,047 ratings
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Smrtící byznys
Smrtící byznys 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival 3.89 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed
Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed
by: Hawa Abdi
4.20 avg rating — 854 ratings
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The Mayor of Mogadishu: A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia
The Mayor of Mogadishu: A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia 4.01 avg rating — 436 ratings
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War Child: A Child Soldier's Story
War Child: A Child Soldier's Story 4.09 avg rating — 2,148 ratings
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I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation 4.13 avg rating — 1,374 ratings
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They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan 4.21 avg rating — 10,210 ratings
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The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur 3.93 avg rating — 5,209 ratings
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Slave: My True Story
Slave: My True Story 4.28 avg rating — 10,238 ratings
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Desert Flower
Desert Flower 4.24 avg rating — 39,501 ratings
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Saba: Under the Hyena's Foot
Saba: Under the Hyena's Foot 3.67 avg rating — 622 ratings
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Heart of Darfur
Heart of Darfur 3.77 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Bill Bryson's African Diary
Bill Bryson's African Diary 3.49 avg rating — 10,348 ratings
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Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth
Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth 3.94 avg rating — 9,947 ratings
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My Fathers' Daughter
My Fathers' Daughter 3.89 avg rating — 551 ratings
42.
Out of Africa
Out of Africa 3.91 avg rating — 46,908 ratings
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Breath of Africa
Breath of Africa
by: J.L. Bwye
3.71 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Elephant Dropping
The Elephant Dropping 3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Liquidator
The Liquidator 3.88 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Watermelon King
The Watermelon King 3.80 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Long Walk Home (Hope of Sudan #1)
Long Walk Home (Hope of Sudan #1) 4.28 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Crossing Paths
Crossing Paths 4.46 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere
Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere 4.24 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Speak Swahili, Dammit !
Speak Swahili, Dammit ! 3.98 avg rating — 498 ratings
50.
The Orchard of Lost Souls
The Orchard of Lost Souls 3.85 avg rating — 1,815 ratings
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Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai 4.23 avg rating — 789 ratings
52.
Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book
Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book 4.01 avg rating — 524 ratings
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Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival
Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival 4.04 avg rating — 2,136 ratings
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Petals of Blood
Petals of Blood 3.89 avg rating — 2,566 ratings
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Devil on the Cross
Devil on the Cross 3.93 avg rating — 2,032 ratings
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Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley
Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley 3.83 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass 4.21 avg rating — 11,729 ratings
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God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir
God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir 4.15 avg rating — 3,041 ratings
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Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur 4.23 avg rating — 4,270 ratings
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The Red Pencil
The Red Pencil 3.91 avg rating — 7,285 ratings
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Crossroads: Women Coming of Age in Today's Uganda
Crossroads: Women Coming of Age in Today's Uganda 4.26 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Danakil Diary: Journeys Through Abyssinia, 1930-1934
The Danakil Diary: Journeys Through Abyssinia, 1930-1934 3.91 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Storyteller's Beads
The Storyteller's Beads 3.69 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America 4.11 avg rating — 691 ratings
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Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror
Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror 4.05 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia
Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia 3.57 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Weep Not, Child
Weep Not, Child 3.90 avg rating — 4,099 ratings
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Famine Crimes: Politics & the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa
Famine Crimes: Politics & the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa 4.18 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Where The Air Is Sweet
Where The Air Is Sweet 3.93 avg rating — 495 ratings
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Shadow of the Hyena
Shadow of the Hyena 4.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood
Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood 3.88 avg rating — 868 ratings
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Leopard at the Door
Leopard at the Door 4.03 avg rating — 6,394 ratings
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What Is the What
What Is the What 4.15 avg rating — 86,454 ratings
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Black Mamba Boy
Black Mamba Boy 3.74 avg rating — 2,310 ratings
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The Shadow King
The Shadow King 3.66 avg rating — 14,622 ratings
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The Chains of Heaven: A Walk in the Ethiopian Highlands
The Chains of Heaven: A Walk in the Ethiopian Highlands 3.79 avg rating — 111 ratings
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I Dare to Say: African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and Survival
I Dare to Say: African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and Survival 4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Last King of Scotland
The Last King of Scotland 3.79 avg rating — 4,309 ratings
80.
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man 4.20 avg rating — 910 ratings
81.
Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe
Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe 3.71 avg rating — 606 ratings
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Who Fears Death
Who Fears Death 3.93 avg rating — 27,811 ratings
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Links
Links 3.37 avg rating — 582 ratings
84.
Dust
Dust 3.75 avg rating — 1,667 ratings
85.
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller 4.07 avg rating — 1,272 ratings
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Dreams in a Time of War
Dreams in a Time of War 3.92 avg rating — 1,716 ratings
87.
Say You're One of Them
Say You're One of Them 3.55 avg rating — 16,254 ratings
88.
Desert Dawn
Desert Dawn 3.85 avg rating — 4,312 ratings
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My Maasai Life: From Suburbia to Savannah
My Maasai Life: From Suburbia to Savannah 3.91 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan
Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan 4.01 avg rating — 840 ratings
91.
From a Crooked Rib
From a Crooked Rib 3.30 avg rating — 624 ratings
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The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster
The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster 3.77 avg rating — 3,115 ratings
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First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life 3.75 avg rating — 1,990 ratings
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Reunion in Barsaloi
Reunion in Barsaloi 3.50 avg rating — 1,706 ratings
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Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children
Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children 3.65 avg rating — 469 ratings
96.
The White Masai
The White Masai 3.55 avg rating — 10,389 ratings
97.
The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps
The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps 4.11 avg rating — 2,867 ratings
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Being a Bird
Being a Bird it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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L'abbandono
L'abbandono really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Games End
The Games End really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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