# 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.

## Books

- [Weep Not, Child](https://africantales.net/books/weep-not-child), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya, 1964
- [Song of Lawino](https://africantales.net/books/song-of-lawino), Okot p'Bitek, Uganda, 1966
- [A Grain of Wheat](https://africantales.net/books/a-grain-of-wheat), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya, 1967
- [From a Crooked Rib](https://africantales.net/books/from-a-crooked-rib), Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, 1970
- [Petals of Blood](https://africantales.net/books/petals-of-blood), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya, 1977
- [The House of Hunger](https://africantales.net/books/the-house-of-hunger), Dambudzo Marechera, Zimbabwe, 1978
- [Maps](https://africantales.net/books/maps), Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, 1986
- [Nervous Conditions](https://africantales.net/books/nervous-conditions), Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe, 1988
- [Sleepwalking Land](https://africantales.net/books/sleepwalking-land), Mia Couto, Mozambique, 1992
- [Paradise](https://africantales.net/books/paradise), Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 1994
- [Abyssinian Chronicles](https://africantales.net/books/abyssinian-chronicles), Moses Isegawa, Uganda, 1998
- [By the Sea](https://africantales.net/books/by-the-sea), Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 2001
- [The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears](https://africantales.net/books/the-beautiful-things-that-heaven-bears), Dinaw Mengestu, Ethiopia, 2007
- [The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind](https://africantales.net/books/the-boy-who-harnessed-the-wind), William Kamkwamba, Malawi, 2009
- [Beneath the Lion's Gaze](https://africantales.net/books/beneath-the-lion-s-gaze), Maaza Mengiste, Ethiopia, 2010
- [One Day I Will Write About This Place](https://africantales.net/books/one-day-i-will-write-about-this-place), Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenya, 2011
- [Our Lady of the Nile](https://africantales.net/books/our-lady-of-the-nile), Scholastique Mukasonga, Rwanda, 2012
- [We Need New Names](https://africantales.net/books/we-need-new-names), NoViolet Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 2013
- [Dust](https://africantales.net/books/dust), Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Kenya, 2014
- [Kintu](https://africantales.net/books/kintu), Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Uganda, 2014
- [Small Country](https://africantales.net/books/small-country), Gaël Faye, Burundi, 2016
- [The Shadow King](https://africantales.net/books/the-shadow-king), Maaza Mengiste, Ethiopia, 2019
- [The Old Drift](https://africantales.net/books/the-old-drift), Namwali Serpell, Zambia, 2019
- [Afterlives](https://africantales.net/books/afterlives), Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 2020

## See also

- [East African classics](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa/classic)
- [East African historical fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa/historical-fiction)
- [East African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa/literary-fiction)
- [East African war fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa/war-fiction)

Source: https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa