This February, I plan to read books from East Africa and Sudan, in sha Allah. I don’t know if I will manage to read all of these but it’s nice to have a selection. You will notice that Somalia dominates this list and that is because March’s podcast episode will focus on Links ​by Nuruddin Farah, in sha Allah, and I want to get as much context and variety of perspective as I can.

• Links by Nuruddin Farah (Somalia) – Novel
• The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya) – Novel
• Silence is my Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia (Eritrea) – Novel
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (Sudan) – Novel
• The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed (Somalia) – Novel
• The Sea-Migrations: Tahriib by Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf (Somalia) – Poetry
• Getting Somalia Wrong?: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State by Mary Harper (Somalia) – Non-fiction
• In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman Waberi  (Djibouti) – Novel
• Elusive Jannah: The Somali Diaspora and a Borderless Muslim Identity by Cawo M. Abdi (Somalia) – Non-fiction