# East African classics

Writers include Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Okot p'Bitek, Nuruddin Farah, Dambudzo Marechera and Tsitsi Dangarembga. Set in or written from Kenya, Somalia, Uganda and Zimbabwe. First published 1964 to 1988.

## 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
- [The House of Hunger](https://africantales.net/books/the-house-of-hunger), Dambudzo Marechera, Zimbabwe, 1978
- [Nervous Conditions](https://africantales.net/books/nervous-conditions), Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe, 1988

## See also

- [East African literature](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa)
- [African classics](https://africantales.net/genres/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/classic