It would be a challenge for half a dozen books to give a balanced
representation of a single country, let alone the 14 countries of continental Eastern Africa *, but we hope that these six books set in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Zimbabwe (listed in approximate geographical order, north to south) will give you and your book club a small taste of the region and, perhaps, spark a thirst to learn more.
After three years at the University
of San Francisco School
of Law, I did as planned: I founded Bayview Hunters Point Community Legal, the first nonprofit in the
country to guarantee the ability to access legal
representation for everyone living in a
single neighborhood.