See here for methodology. Books are disqualified if less than 50% of them is set in Niger.
These numbers are crunched by hand, not by AI.
| Title | Author | Goodreads raters | LibraryThing owners |
| Shadow Speaker | Nnedi Okorafor | 2,696 | 448 |
| In Sorcery’s Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger | Paul Stoller | 278 | 76 |
| Don’t Spill the Milk! | Stephen Davies | 226 | 54 |
| Harmattan | Gavin Weston | 242 | 26 |
| Nomads of Niger | Carol Beckwith and Marion van Offelen | 3,699 | 408 |
This was a very difficult tabulation. There are a lot of books about West Africa, or just Africa in general. There’s a certain amount of confusion between Niger and Nigeria. There are books about travelling to Timbuktu (which is in Mali), or the Songhay Empire (which was also mainly in Mali), or following Mungo Park (who did the whole river Niger). I excluded 28 books before I got to the fifth one actually set in Niger, and for once I’m not going to list them all; some of them have very spurious Nigerien connections indeed.
The winner – for the second time, see also Sudan – is Nnedi Okorafor, who very clearly sets Shadow Speaker in a future Niger.
The top book set in Niger by a Nigerien author that I was able to identify is Sarraounia : Le drame de la reine magicienne, by Abdoulaye Mamani.
Next up: Australia, North Korea, Syria and indeed Mali.
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