East African historical fiction
Writers include Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Maaza Mengiste, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Namwali Serpell. Set in or written from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. First published 1964 to 2020.
- Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya, 1964
- Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 1994
- Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste, Ethiopia, 2010
- Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Uganda, 2014
- The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste, Ethiopia, 2019
- The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell, Zambia, 2019
- Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 2020