Books like Baobab fou by Ken Bugul

A sweeping historical novel that traces the Biafran War through the intertwined lives of Nigerian characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard.

A book about a flower thing

Olivia Logan leaves a lonely Johannesburg life to open a book and stationery shop in the bushveld of Northern Transvaal. She expects tranquility, but an unexpected romance with Bernard King threatens her newfound peace.

Mariatu Kamara, once a Sierra Leonean teenager cut off mid‑hand while being kidnapped, survived as a beggar before becoming a UNICEF Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, sharing her story of resilience.

A memoir of a woman’s life across a century of Ethiopian history, weaving personal tribulations—parenthood, widowhood, poverty—with political upheavals, from fascist occupation to revolutionary war.

In a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia's women together--and together they led a nation to peace. As a young woman, Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that tore apart her life and claimed the lives of countless relatives and friends. As a young mother trapped in a nightmare of domestic abuse, she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action, propelled by her realization that it is women who suffer most during conflicts--and that the power of women working together can create an unstoppable force. In 2003, the passionate and charismatic Gbowee helped organize and then led the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, a coalition of Christian and Muslim women who sat in public protest, confronting Liberia's ruthless president and rebel warlords, and even held a sex strike. With an army of women, Gbowee helped lead her nation to peace.--From publisher description.

"The four women who form the subject of this book belonged to the West ... Each found, in the East, glowing horizons of emotion and daring." Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, a convent girl captured by corsairs and sold into the Harem of the Grand Turk; Lady Ellenborough, a society beauty who fled London for Athens, and Athens for the Syrian tent of Sheikh Medjuel El Bezrab; Isabel Burton, whose explorer husband's love for the East became her passion; and Isabelle Eberhardt, transvestite and linguist, whose love affair with the East ended when she drowned in the desert sand at the age of twenty-seven...