East African literature
Writers include Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Okot p'Bitek, Nuruddin Farah, Dambudzo Marechera, Tsitsi Dangarembga and others. Set in or written from Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda and others. First published 1964 to 2020.
- Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya, 1964
- Song of Lawino by Okot p'Bitek, Uganda, 1966
- A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya, 1967
- From a Crooked Rib by Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, 1970
- Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya, 1977
- The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera, Zimbabwe, 1978
- Maps by Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, 1986
- Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe, 1988
- Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto, Mozambique, 1992
- Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 1994
- Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa, Uganda, 1998
- By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 2001
- The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu, Ethiopia, 2007
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, Malawi, 2009
- Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste, Ethiopia, 2010
- One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenya, 2011
- Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga, Rwanda, 2012
- We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 2013
- Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Kenya, 2014
- Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Uganda, 2014
- Small Country by Gaël Faye, Burundi, 2016
- The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste, Ethiopia, 2019
- The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell, Zambia, 2019
- Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 2020