The 2024 #SomethingBookishReadingChallenge - hosted by lipglossmaffia

A Book By An East African Author
East African countries- Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia and Somaliland, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
Authors in the diaspora are valid entries. 
All books added
No Edges: Swahili Stories by Lusajo Mwaikenda Israel, Mwas Mahugu, Clara Momanyi, Katama G.C. Mkangi, Euphrase Kezilahabi, Fatma Shafii, Lilian Mbaga, Fadhy Mtanga

No Edges: Swahili Stories

Lusajo Mwaikenda Israel, Mwas Mahugu, Clara Momanyi, Katama G.C. Mkangi, Euphrase Kezilahabi, Fatma Shafii, Lilian Mbaga, Fadhy Mtanga

141 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary short stories challenging reflective medium-paced
An Impossible Return by Caroline Laurent

An Impossible Return

Caroline Laurent

350 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
Confessions of Nairobi Men by Joan Thatiah

Confessions of Nairobi Men

Joan Thatiah

270 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

fiction short stories
Confessions of Nairobi Women Book Two by Joan Thatiah
Confessions of Nairobi Women Book Two
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Joan Thatiah

Confessions of Nairobi Women Book Two

confessions of nairobi women #2

Joan Thatiah

154 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction short stories
Kololo Hill by Neema Shah

Kololo Hill

Neema Shah

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical emotional reflective medium-paced
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Afterlives

Abdulrazak Gurnah

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa

Abyssinian Chronicles

Moses Isegawa

480 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

fiction emotional reflective slow-paced
The River and the Source by Margaret A. Ogola

The River and the Source

Margaret A. Ogola

292 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction emotional slow-paced
For What Are Butterflies Without Their Wings by Troy Onyango

For What Are Butterflies Without Their Wings

Troy Onyango

220 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction literary short stories dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Women of The Ashes by Mia Couto

Women of The Ashes

Sands of the Emperor #1

Mia Couto

342 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction historical challenging slow-paced