My favorite books set on the continent of Africa that I have read in the past year or two:
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
No Longer At Ease (African Trilogy, Book 2) by Chinua Achebe
The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill (set in Mali and U.S. early slavery history)
The Last Rhino also by Lawrence Anthony
Thousand Hills to Heaven by Josh Ruxen
Americanah by Chimamanda Adichie
When A Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller
In the Kingdom of the Gorillas by Bill Weber and Amy Vedder
Broken Memory: A Novel of Rwanda by Elisabeth Combres
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Books I have read since leaving the U.S. on January 26, 2015 that I can recommend:
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Patchett
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
American Rust by Philip Meyer
On Writing by Stephen King (A must for my writer friends!)