Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

By
Dipo Faloyin
Dipo Faloyin
2022 • 400 pages

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19 books

Namibia

Daren
Daren
The Lost World of the Kalahari
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales
The Land God Made In Anger
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
The Great Trek
Tropic of Capricorn

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15 books

Benin

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Daren
Forest of Memories
The Forgotten Path
Ox Travels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers
Flash for Freedom!
Anywhere But Here
The Dark Kingdoms
African Switchback

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13 books

Eritrea

Daren
Daren
High-Ho to London: Incidents and interviews on a leisurely journey by air from Australia to Britain
Sailing with Mohammed
Desert, Marsh and Mountain: The World of a Nomad
Arabian Sands
Inside Africa
Into the Hidden Land
Lone Dhow

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41 books

Uganda

Daren
Daren
The Long Walks: Journeys to the Sources of the White Nile
The Seven Mountain-Travel Books
Off the Rails
Dirtroads
The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River
Beyond the Devil's Teeth : Journeys in Gondwanaland
The White Nile

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41 books

Congo Dr

Daren
Daren
Who Wanders Alone
Alone to Everest
Travels in West Africa
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
A Giant Among Rivers
The Seven Mountain-Travel Books
Dirtroads

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768 books

4 Star

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Sea of Poppies
City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
The Return of the King
Slumdog Millionaire
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Across the Nightingale Floor

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488 books

In The Pile

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Arguably
168 Hours
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
Annihilation

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Own Tbr

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Anastasia
At the End of the Matinee
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes--But Some Do
A Gentleman in Moscow
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
The Broken Circle
Trick Mirror

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11 books

Politics

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Who Gets Believed?
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
The World Turned Upside Down
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
Glory
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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Books For Me

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Fahrenheit 451
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Actor and the Housewife
Midnight in Austenland
Austenland
Princess Academy

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12 books

Nonfiction

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Sarah Humiston
The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging
The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Strange Fruit, Volume I
Recognize!: An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Africa Amazing Africa: Country by Country
Strange Fruit, Volume II

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243 books

2023

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When We Were Sisters
Calling for a Blanket Dance
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The War of the Jewels
The Peoples of Middle-earth

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Owned

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Two Under the Indian Sun
Sailing with Mohammed
Beowulf
Slowly Down the Ganges
One Lonely Night
Killer Mine
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Non Fiction

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Days and Nights in Calcutta
The Real "Bravo Two Zero"
Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Paddy O'Brien: Whistle While You Work

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44 books

Algeria

Daren
Daren
Sahara Man: Travelling with the Tuareg
Beyond the Last Oasis: A Solo Walk in the Western Sahara
Who Wanders Alone
To Camels from Cows: Algeria Overland
A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales
A Wayfarer in North Africa
People of the Mirage

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41 books

Ethiopia

Daren
Daren
High-Ho to London: Incidents and interviews on a leisurely journey by air from Australia to Britain
The Coronation of Haile Selassie
Cult of the Sacred Spear: The Story of the Nuer Tribe in Ethiopia
Walking the Nile
From The Roof Of Africa
In Ethiopia with a Mule
The Mountains Of Rasselas

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47 books

Sudan

Daren
Daren
Bagpipes in Babylon: A Lifetime in the Arab World and Beyond
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
The Last of the Bedu: In Search of the Myth
High-Ho to London: Incidents and interviews on a leisurely journey by air from Australia to Britain
Off the Rails
Walking the Nile

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3 books

Nigerian Author

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Daren
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Famished Road
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

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34 books

Nigeria

Daren
Daren
Who Wanders Alone
Forest of Memories
Story of the Niger
Travels in the White Man's Grave
A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales
Lost Kingdoms Of Africa
The Search for the Niger

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35 books

Zimbabwe

Daren
Daren
Journey to the Vanished City : Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel
Rhodesia and Nyasaland Journey
Africa on a Tightrope
Off the Rails
A Story Like the Wind
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
Wild Lives of Africa

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13 books

Somalia

Daren
Daren
Ox Travels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers
Hostage: A Year at Gunpoint with Somali Gangsters
Pirates of the 21st Century: How Modern-Day Buccaneers are Terrorising the World's Oceans
Off The Map
The Horn of Africa: Travels in British Somaliland
Inside Africa
The Silent Service

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49 books

Tanzania

Daren
Daren
Who Wanders Alone
Journey to the Vanished City : Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel
The Long Walks: Journeys to the Sources of the White Nile
Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Africa on a Tightrope
The Seven Mountain-Travel Books
Off the Rails

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42 books

Africa Various

Daren
Daren
Lost Kingdoms Of Africa
Travels with Fortune - An African Adventure
Off the Rails
Twenty Thousand Miles In The African Jungle
African Fury
Road to Ophir
She and Allan

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20 books

Mozambique

Daren
Daren
Journey to the Vanished City : Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel
Riding the Rhino
Ulendo
Ox Travels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers
Zambezi: Journey of a River
Travel & Adventure in South East Africa
The Thirsty Land
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