Series

African writers series

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50 books here · 1950–1996

Publication order

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Things Fall Apart · Chinua Achebe

Mission to Kala · Mongo Beti

Origin East Africa · David Cook

The River Between · Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo

The only son · John Munonye

One man, one wife 1959 · Aluko, T. M.

The old man and the medal · Ferdinand Oyono

The Wedding of Zein and Other Sudanese Stories · al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ

Political spider 1969 · Ulli Beier

Season of Migration to the North 1969 · al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ

North African writing · Len Ortzen

The interpreters · Wole Soyinka

Wand of noble wood. · Onuora Nzekwu

The Poor Christ of Bomba · Mongo Beti

Blade among the boys · Onuora Nzekwu

The smell of it, & other stories · Sonallah Ibrahim

122

The combat 1972 · Kole Omotoso

131

The Grass Is Singing 1950 · Doris Lessing

142

Tribal scars and other stories 1971 · Ousmane Sembène

155

Why are we so blest? 1962 · Ayi Kwei Armah

174

Hammer blows 1973 · David Diop

180

Prose and poetry · Léopold Sédar Senghor

186

The return · Yaw M. Boateng

196

Egyptian short stories · Denys Johnson-Davies

201

Mhudi 1970 · Sol T. Plaatje

223

The man who lost his shadow · Fatḥī Ghānim

225

Children of the Alley · نجيب محفوظ

256

Unwinding threads · Charlotte H. Bruner

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Maru · Bessie Head

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So long a letter · Mariama Bâ

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Devil on the cross · Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo

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God's bits of wood · Ousmane Sembène

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The second round · Lenrie Peters

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Le Docker Noir · Ousmane Sembène

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The Suns of Independence · Ahmadou Kourouma

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We killed Mangy-Dog 1969 · Luís Bernardo Honwana

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Tribaliks 1971 · Henri Lopes

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No Longer at Ease · Chinua Achebe

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The joys of motherhood · Buchi Emecheta

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Distant view of a minaret · Alifa Rifaat

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The seven solitudes of Lorsa Lopez · Sony Labou Tansi

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Niiwam and Taaw 1987 · Ousmane Sembène

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Kehinde 1994 · Buchi Emecheta

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Rings of burnished brass 1984 · Yūsuf Idrīs

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African short stories · Chinua Achebe

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The concubine · Elechi Amadi

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The Heinemann book of contemporary African short stories · Chinua Achebe

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Ambiguous adventure · Hamidou Kane

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Changes 1991 · Ama Ata Aidoo

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Every man is a race · Mia Couto