Booklist: Books from every African country

Cecilia Herrera formerly served as an AmeriCorps senior distance tutoring coordinator for Reading Partners Seattle. While attending a full-day training on race, diversity, equity, and inclusion, Cecilia became particularly inspired by one of the speakers, Anita Koyier-Mwamba, who encouraged her and other educators to teach students from the highest heights of students’ culture and not their deepest despairs.

Emboldened by the speaker and a year of learning about the race equity, diversity, and inclusion work at Reading Partners, Cecilia felt compelled to take action. She took the initiative to expand her knowledge about the world and embarked on the Africa Research Project with fellow distance tutoring coordinator, Maiya Mosteller, and Reading Partners intern, Sarah Miller.

The group’s final Africa Research Project culminated in a 500+ slide deck outlining each African country and facts about the region. They also chose a book for each country that is either set in that country, about that country, or written by an author who is from that country.

Cecilia, Maiya, and Sarah walked away from the project with a renewed sense of curiosity about the world and cultures around them, and realizing that there was so much they would have never known about the diverse and beautiful continent and its inhabitants had they not taken the time to learn.

Featured below is the complete booklist from the Africa Research Project, alphabetized by country.

54 books representing 54 African countries