African Writers Series
Encyclopedia
African Writers Series is a series of books by African writers which has been published by Heinemann
Heinemann (book publisher)
Heinemann is a UK publishing house founded by William Heinemann in Covent Garden, London in 1890. On William Heinemann's death in 1920 a majority stake was purchased by U.S. publisher Doubleday. It was later acquired by commemorate Thomas Tilling in 1961...

 since 1962. The series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers, ensuring an international voice to literary masters including Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe popularly known as Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic...

, Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature...

, Steve Biko
Steve Biko
Stephen Biko was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. Since his death in police custody, he has been called a martyr of the...

, Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo
Professor Ama Ata Aidoo, née Christina Ama Aidoo is a Ghanaian author and playwright.-Life:She grew up in a Fante royal household, the daughter of Nana Yaw Fama, chief of Abeadzi Kyiakor, and Maame Abasema. She was sent by her father to the Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast from 1961 to 1964...

, Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...

, Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta
Dr Buchi Emecheta is an African novelist who has published over 20 books, including Second-Class Citizen , The Bride Price , The Slave Girl and The Joys of Motherhood...

 and Okot p'Bitek
Okot p'Bitek
Okot p'Bitek was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be westernised...

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History

Founded in 1962, the series provided a forum for many post-independence African writers, and provided texts with which many African universities could begin to redress the colonial bias then prominent in the teaching of literature. The books were designed for classroom use, issuing works solely in paperback to make them affordable for African students. They were published by Heinemann Educational Books in London and various African cities.

The idea of the series came from Heinemann executive Alan Hill. The first advisory editor to the series was the Nigerian Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe popularly known as Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic...

 – who became one of Africa's most famous writers. Achebe focused first on West Africa
West Africa
West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries and an area of approximately 5 million square km:-Flags of West Africa:...

n writers, but soon the series branched out, publishing the works of Ngugi wa Thiong'o in East Africa
East Africa
East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...

, and Nadine Gordimer in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

. Achebe left the editorship in 1972. James Currey, the editorial director at Heinemann Educational Books in charge of the African Writers Series from 1967 to 1984, has provided a book-length treatment of the series.

After a fairly prosperous beginning, the series faced difficulties mirroring those which faced the continent as a whole. By the mid-1980s, only one or two new titles a year were being published, and much of the back catalogue had fallen out of print. By the early 1990s, however, the series had begun to revive, having recently branched out to publish new work, to republish texts originally published in local release, and to publishing translated works.

List of Authors and Books In the African Writers Series

Number Author Year Title
1 Achebe, Chinua
Chinua Achebe
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe popularly known as Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic...

 
1962 Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apartis a 1958 English language novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and widely read and studied in English-speaking countries around the world. It is seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English, and one of the first African...

2 Ekwensi, Cyprian
Cyprian Ekwensi
Cyprian Ekwensi, MFR was a Nigerian short story writer and author of children's books.-Early life, education and family:Ekwensi, an Igbo, was born in Minna, Niger State...

 
1962 Burning grass: a story of the Fulani of Northern Nigeria. Illustrated by A. Folarin; cover drawing by Dennis Duerden.
3 Achebe, Chinua
Chinua Achebe
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe popularly known as Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic...

 
1963 No Longer at Ease
No Longer at Ease
No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for a British education and a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service, but who struggles to adapt to a Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe...

. Illustrated by Bruce Onobrakprya
4 Kaunda, Kenneth D.
Kenneth Kaunda
Kenneth David Kaunda, known as KK, served as the first President of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991.-Early life:Kaunda was the youngest of eight children. He was born at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali, Northern Province of Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia...

 
1962 Zambia shall be free: an autobiography
5 Ekwensi, Cyprian
Cyprian Ekwensi
Cyprian Ekwensi, MFR was a Nigerian short story writer and author of children's books.-Early life, education and family:Ekwensi, an Igbo, was born in Minna, Niger State...

 
1963 People of the City. Revised edition.
6 Abrahams, Peter
Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams is a South African novelist.His father was from Ethiopia and his mother was classified by South Africa as a mixed race person, a "Kleurling" or Coloured. He was born in Vrededorp, nearby Johannesburg, but left South Africa in 1939...

1963 Mine Boy. Illustrated by Ruth Yudelowitz. (Previously published 1948?)
7 Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature...

 (as Ngugi, James)
1964 Weep Not, Child
Weep Not, Child
Weep Not, Child is Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's first novel, published in 1964 under the name James Ngugi. It was the first English novel to be published by an East African. Thiong'o's works deal with the relationship between Africans and the British colonists in Africa, and are heavily...

8 Reed, John
John O. Reed
John O. Reed is an anthologist and translator of African literature.With Clive Wake he has published several anthologies, as well as translations from French of the work of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, in Heinemann's African Writers Series...

; Wake, Clive
Clive Wake
Clive Wake is a critic, editor and translator of modern African and French literature.Born in Cape Town, Clive Wake studied at Cape Town University and the Sorbonne. He taught at the University of Rhodesia, and the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he is Emeritus Professor of French and...

, ed.
1964 A Book of African Verse. Later edition published (1984) as New book of African verse.
9 Rive, Richard
Richard Rive
-Biography:Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class coloured District Six of Cape Town.His father was African, and his mother was coloured, and Rive was given the latter classification under apartheid...

, ed.
1964 Modern African Prose. An anthology compiled and edited by Richard Rive. Illustrated by Albert Adams. Contributions by Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams is a South African novelist.His father was from Ethiopia and his mother was classified by South Africa as a mixed race person, a "Kleurling" or Coloured. He was born in Vrededorp, nearby Johannesburg, but left South Africa in 1939...

, Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe popularly known as Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic...

, Es'kia Mphahlele, Abioseh Nicol
Abioseh Nicol
Abioseh Davidson Nicol was a Sierra Leonean academic, diplomat, physician, writer and poet. He has been considered as one of Sierra Leone’s most educated citizens of recent times, as he was able to secure degrees on the art, science and commercial disciplines.-Early life:Nicol was born as Davidson...

, Richard Rive, Alfred Hutchinson, Efua Sutherland
Efua Sutherland
Efua Theodora Sutherland was a Ghanaian playwright, children's author, and dramatist. Her best-known works include Foriwa , Edufa , and The Marriage of Anansewa .-Life:...

, Jonathan Kariara
Jonathan Kariara
Jonathan Kariara was a Kenyan poet who wrote works including "A Leopard Lives in a Muu Tree". He was also for several years the manager of Oxford University Press's branch office in Nairobi. Over the same period he ran regular workshops for writers in order to encourage and stimulate local...

, Peter Clarke
Peter Clarke (artist)
Peter Clark is a highly accomplished and versatile visual South African artist, working across a broad spectrum of media. But he also has a literary side as an internationally acclaimed writer and poet. Of these three roles, he jokes: "Had I been triplets, it would have made it much easier because...

, Luis Bernardo Honwana
Luis Bernardo Honwana
-Biography:Luís Bernado Honwana was born Luís Augusto Bernardo Manuel in Lourenço Marques , Mozambique. His parents, Raúl Bernardo Manuel and Naly Jeremias Nhaca, belonged to the Ronga people from Moamba, a town about 55 km northwest of Maputo.He studied law in Portugal and worked for some...

, Jack Cope
Jack Cope
Jack Cope was a South African novelist, short story writer, poet, and editor.Jack Cope was born in Natal, South Africa and attended boarding school in Durban, afterwards becoming a journalist on the Natal Mercury and then a political correspondent in London for South African newspapers...

, Cyprian Ekwensi
Cyprian Ekwensi
Cyprian Ekwensi, MFR was a Nigerian short story writer and author of children's books.-Early life, education and family:Ekwensi, an Igbo, was born in Minna, Niger State...

, Amos Tituola, Camara Laye
Camara Laye
Camara Laye was an African writer from Guinea. During his time at college he wrote The African Child , a novel based loosely on his own childhood. He would later become a writer of many essays and was a foe of the government of Guinea...

, James Matthews
James Matthews (writer)
James Matthews is a South African poet, writer and publisher.He was detained by the apartheid government in 1976, and was denied a passport for 23 years....

, Alf Wannenburgh
Alf Wannenburgh
Alf Wannenburgh is a South African writer and journalist.Alf Wannenburgh studied at the University of Cape Town. He worked as a land-surveyor's assistant, salesman, clerk and window-dresser. Associated with the Sophiatown Renaissance, Wannenburgh remained in South Africa in the early 1960s rather...

, William Conton
William Conton
William Farquhar Conton was an educator, historian and novelist from Sierra Leone.-Life:Conton was educated at Durham University in England. After graduating he taught at Fourah Bay College before becoming principal of Accra High School in Ghana...

, Onuora Nzekwu
Onuora Nzekwu
Onuora Nzekwu is a Nigerian professor, writer and editor from the Igbo people.-Works:*Wand of Noble Wood *Blade Among the Boys *Highlife for Lizards -References:...

, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature...

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10 Edwards, Paul  1967 Equiano's Travels: his autobiography; the interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African. Abridged and edited by Paul Edwards. London: Heinemann.
11 Aluko, T. M.
T. M. Aluko
Timothy Mofolorunso "T. M." Aluko was a Nigerian writer.A Yoruba, Aluko was born in Ilesha in Nigeria and studied at Government College, Ibadan, and Higher College, Yaba in Lagos. He then studied civil engineering and town planning at the University of London...

 
1964 One Man, One Matchet
12 Conton, William
William Conton
William Farquhar Conton was an educator, historian and novelist from Sierra Leone.-Life:Conton was educated at Durham University in England. After graduating he taught at Fourah Bay College before becoming principal of Accra High School in Ghana...

 
1964 The African. (Previously published 1960?)
13 Beti, Mongo
Mongo Beti
Alexandre Biyidi Awala , known as Mongo Beti, was a Cameroonian writer.- Life :Though he lived in exile for many decades, Beti's life reveals an unflagging commitment to improvement of his home country...

 
1964 Mission to Kala: a novel. Translated by Peter Green from the French novel Mission terminée (1957). American edition (New York, Macmillan) published under the title Mission accomplished.
14 Rive, Richard
Richard Rive
-Biography:Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class coloured District Six of Cape Town.His father was African, and his mother was coloured, and Rive was given the latter classification under apartheid...

, ed.
1963 Quartet: New voices from South Africa. Short stories by Alex La Guma
Alex La Guma
Alex La Guma was a South African novelist, leader of the South African Coloured People’s Organisation and a defendant in the Treason Trial, whose works helped characterise the movement against the apartheid era in South Africa...

, James Matthews
James Matthews
James Matthews may refer to:*Brander Matthews, American writer*Jim Matthews , US politician*James Ewen Matthews , Canadian Member of Parliament for Brandon*James Tilly Matthews, British merchant*James M...

, Richard Rive
Richard Rive
-Biography:Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class coloured District Six of Cape Town.His father was African, and his mother was coloured, and Rive was given the latter classification under apartheid...

 and Alf Wannenburgh
Alf Wannenburgh
Alf Wannenburgh is a South African writer and journalist.Alf Wannenburgh studied at the University of Cape Town. He worked as a land-surveyor's assistant, salesman, clerk and window-dresser. Associated with the Sophiatown Renaissance, Wannenburgh remained in South Africa in the early 1960s rather...

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15 Cook, David
David Cook (literary critic)
David Cook was a British academic, literary critic and anthologist. As a Professor of Literature at the Universities of Makerere and Ilorin, he played an important role in encouraging literature in East Africa.-Life:...

1965 Origin East Africa: a Makerere anthology devised and edited by David Cook. Heinemann Educational Books: London & Ibadan. Prose and verse.
16 Achebe, Chinua
Chinua Achebe
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe popularly known as Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic...

 
1966 Arrow of God
Arrow of God
Arrow of God is a 1964 novel by Chinua Achebe. It is Achebe's third novel following Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease. These three books are sometimes called The African Trilogy...

. Heinemann Educational Books: London
17 Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature...

 as (Ngugi, James)
1965 The River Between
18 Obotunde Ijimere  1966 The Imprisonment of Obatala, and other plays. Heinemann.
19 Ekwensi, Cyprian
Cyprian Ekwensi
Cyprian Ekwensi, MFR was a Nigerian short story writer and author of children's books.-Early life, education and family:Ekwensi, an Igbo, was born in Minna, Niger State...

 
1966 Lokotown and Other Stories. Heinemann: London, Ibadan etc.
20 Gatheru, Mugo
Mugo Gatheru
R. Mugo Gatheru is a Kenyan writer. His autobiographical A Child of Two Worlds describes growing up in colonial Kenya....

 
1966 Child of Two Worlds. Heinemann: London.
21 Munonye, John
John Munonye
John Munonye is an important important Igbo writer and one of the most important Nigerian writers of the twentieth of century. He was born in Akokwa, Nigeria, and was educated at the University of Ibadan and the Institute of Education, London...

 
1966 The Only Son. Heinemann: London.
22 Peters, Lenrie
Lenrie Peters
Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters ) was a Gambian surgeon, novelist, and poet.-Background:Peters was born in Bathurst to Lenrie Ernest Ingram Peters and Kezia Rosemary. Lenrie Sr. was a Sierra Leone Creole of West Indian or black American origin. Kezia Rosemary was a Gambian Creole of Sierra Leonean...

 
1966 The Second Round. Heinemann Educational: London.
23 Beier, Ulli
Ulli Beier
Horst Ulrich Beier was a German editor, writer and scholar, who had a pioneering role in developing literature, drama and poetry in Nigeria, as well as literature, drama and poetry in Papua New Guinea...

, ed.
1966 The Origin of Life and Death: African creation myths. Heinemann: London, Ibadan etc.
24 Kachingwe, Aubrey
Aubrey Kachingwe
Aubrey Kachingwe is a Malawian novelist and short-story writer. He was educated in Malawi and Tanzania. His first major publication was No Easy Task .-Sources:* African People Database...

 
1966 No Easy Task. Heinemann: London.
25 Amadi, Elechi
Elechi Amadi
Elechi Amadi is a Nigerian author who has written five African novels - The Concubine, The Great Ponds, The Slave , Isiburu and Estrangement...

 
1966 The Concubine
The Concubine (novel)
The Concubine is the debut novel by Nigerian writer Elechi Amadi originally published in 1966. Set in a remote village in Eastern Nigeria, an area yet to be affected by European values and where society is orderly and predictable, the story concerns a woman 'of great beauty and dignity' who...

. Heinemann: London.
26 Nwapa, Flora
Flora Nwapa
Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa was a Nigerian author best known as Flora Nwapa. Her novel Efuru is among the first English language novels by a woman from Africa....

 
1966 Efuru
Efuru
Efuru is a novel by Flora Nwapa which was published in 1966, making it the first book written by a Nigerian woman to be published. The book is about Efuru, an Ibo woman who lives in a small village in colonial West Africa...

. Heinemann: London.
27 Selormey, Francis  1966 The Narrow Path. Heinemann: London.
28 Cook, David
David Cook (literary critic)
David Cook was a British academic, literary critic and anthologist. As a Professor of Literature at the Universities of Makerere and Ilorin, he played an important role in encouraging literature in East Africa.-Life:...

 and Lee, Miles, eds.
1968 Short East African Plays in English: ten plays in English. London & Nairobi: Heinemann Educational, 1968.
29 Oyono, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Oyono
Ferdinand Léopold Oyono was an author from Cameroon whose work is recognized for a sense of irony that reveals how easily people can be fooled...

 
1966 Houseboy. Heinemann: London. Translated by John Reed
John O. Reed
John O. Reed is an anthologist and translator of African literature.With Clive Wake he has published several anthologies, as well as translations from French of the work of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, in Heinemann's African Writers Series...

 from the French Une vie de boy
30 Aluko, T. M.
T. M. Aluko
Timothy Mofolorunso "T. M." Aluko was a Nigerian writer.A Yoruba, Aluko was born in Ilesha in Nigeria and studied at Government College, Ibadan, and Higher College, Yaba in Lagos. He then studied civil engineering and town planning at the University of London...

 
1967 One Man, One Wife. Ibadan ; London : Heinemann.
31 Achebe, Chinua
Chinua Achebe
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe popularly known as Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic...

 
1966 A Man of the People
A Man of the People
A Man of the People is a 1966 satirical novel by Chinua Achebe. It is Achebe's fourth novel. The novel tells the story of the young and educated Odili, the narrator, and his conflict with Chief Nanga, his former teacher who enters a career in politics in an unnamed modern African country...

. Heinemann Educational Books: London. Originally published: Nigerian Printing and Publishing, 1959.
32 Aluko, T. M.
T. M. Aluko
Timothy Mofolorunso "T. M." Aluko was a Nigerian writer.A Yoruba, Aluko was born in Ilesha in Nigeria and studied at Government College, Ibadan, and Higher College, Yaba in Lagos. He then studied civil engineering and town planning at the University of London...

 
1966 Kinsman and Foreman
33 Samkange, Stanlake  1967 On Trial for my Country
34 Pieterse, Cosmo
Cosmo Pieterse
Cosmo George Leipoldt Pieterse is a South African playwright, actor, poet, literary critic and anthologist.Pieterse went to the University of Cape Town and taught in Cape Town until leaving South Africa in 1965. He was banned under the Riotous Assemblies Act of 1962...

, ed.
1968 Ten One-Act Plays. London : Heinemann Educational Books. Includes 'Encounter' by Kuldip Sondhi; 'Yon Kon' by Pat Maddy; 'The game' by Femi Euba
Femi Euba
Femi Euba is a Nigerian actor and dramatist. Among the topics of his plays is Yoruba culture.-Education and career:Euba, a Lagosian by birth, studied acting at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, earning a diploma in 1965. He left Nigeria in 1970 to further his studies, attending Yale...

; 'Blind Cyclos' by Ime Ikeddeh; 'With strings' by Kuldip Sondhi; 'The deviant' by Ganesh Bagchi; 'Fusane's trial' by Alfred Hutchinson; 'The opportunity' by Arthur Maimane
Arthur Maimane
John Arthur Mogale Maimane , better known as Arthur Maimane, was a South African journalist born in Pretoria. Originally intending to study medicine, a young priest, Trevor Huddleston, persuaded him to take a vacation job at Drum magazine. As a result, he choose journalism as his life career...

; 'Maama' by Kwesi Kay; and 'The occupation' by Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood...

35 La Guma, Alex
Alex La Guma
Alex La Guma was a South African novelist, leader of the South African Coloured People’s Organisation and a defendant in the Treason Trial, whose works helped characterise the movement against the apartheid era in South Africa...

1968 A Walk in the Night and other stories. Heinemann Educational Books.
36 Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature...

 (as Ngugi, James)
1967 A Grain of Wheat
A Grain of Wheat
A Grain of Wheat is a novel by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. The novel weaves several stories together during the state of emergency in Kenya's struggle for independence , focusing on the quiet Mugo, whose life is ruled by a dark secret. The plot revolves around his home village's preparations...

. Heinemann
37 Peters, Lenrie
Lenrie Peters
Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters ) was a Gambian surgeon, novelist, and poet.-Background:Peters was born in Bathurst to Lenrie Ernest Ingram Peters and Kezia Rosemary. Lenrie Sr. was a Sierra Leone Creole of West Indian or black American origin. Kezia Rosemary was a Gambian Creole of Sierra Leonean...

 
1967 Satellites
38 Oginga Odinga  1967 Not Yet Uhuru: the autobiography of Oginga Odinga. With a foreword by Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana...

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39 Oyono, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Oyono
Ferdinand Léopold Oyono was an author from Cameroon whose work is recognized for a sense of irony that reveals how easily people can be fooled...

 
1967 The Old Man and the Medal. Translated by John Reed
John O. Reed
John O. Reed is an anthologist and translator of African literature.With Clive Wake he has published several anthologies, as well as translations from French of the work of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, in Heinemann's African Writers Series...

 from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 Le vieux nègre et la médaille.
40 Konadu, Asare
Asare Konadu
Samuel Asare Konadu was a Ghanaian journalist, novelist and publisher, who also wrote under the pseudonym Kwabena Asare Bediako....

 
1967 A Woman in Her Prime
41 Djoleto, Amu  1967 The Strange Man. London : Heinemann
42 Awoonor, Kofi
Kofi Awoonor
Kofi Awoonor is a Ghanaian poet and author, whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization....

 and Adali, Mortty, G. 
1971 Messages: poets from Ghana.
43 Armah, Ayi Kwei
Ayi Kwei Armah
-Early life and education:Born to Fante-speaking parents, and descending on his father's side from a royal family in the Ga nation, Armah was born in the port city of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana, Having attended Achimota School, he left Ghana in 1959 to attend Groton School in Groton, MA. After...

 
1969 The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is a novel by Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah. It was published in 1968. It tells the story of a nameless man who struggles to reconcile himself with the reality of post-independence Ghana.-Plot:...

44 Amadi, Elechi
Elechi Amadi
Elechi Amadi is a Nigerian author who has written five African novels - The Concubine, The Great Ponds, The Slave , Isiburu and Estrangement...

 
1969 The Great Ponds. London: Heinemann.
45 Munonye, John
John Munonye
John Munonye is an important important Igbo writer and one of the most important Nigerian writers of the twentieth of century. He was born in Akokwa, Nigeria, and was educated at the University of Ibadan and the Institute of Education, London...

 
1969 Obi. Ibadan, London: Heinemann Educational
46 Brutus, Dennis
Dennis Brutus
Dennis Vincent Brutus was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have apartheid South Africa banned from the Olympic Games.-Life and work:...

 
1968 Letters to Martha: and other poems from a South African prison. London ; Nairobi [etc.] : Heinemann Educational.
47 Salih, Tayeb
Tayeb Salih
-Early life:Born in Karmakol, near the village of Al Dabbah in the Northern Province of Sudan, he studied at the University of Khartoum before leaving for the University of London in England. Coming from a background of small farmers and religious teachers, his original intention was to work in...

 
1969 The Wedding of Zein, and other stories
The Wedding of Zein
The Wedding of Zein is a contemporary Arabic novel written in 1969 by late Sudanese author Tayeb Salih. Within the realm of Arab literature, the book is considered a classic....

. London; printed in Malta : Heinemann Educational Books, 1969. Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
Denys Johnson-Davies
Denys Johnson-Davies is an eminent Arabic-into-English literary translator who has translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.Davies, referred to as “the...

 from the Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

, and illustrated by Ibrahim Salahi.
48 Gbadamosi, Bakare; Beier, Ulli
Ulli Beier
Horst Ulrich Beier was a German editor, writer and scholar, who had a pioneering role in developing literature, drama and poetry in Nigeria, as well as literature, drama and poetry in Papua New Guinea...

 
1968 Not Even God is Ripe Enough. London, Ibadan, [etc.]: Heinemann Educational. Translated from the Yoruba
Yoruba language
Yorùbá is a Niger–Congo language spoken in West Africa by approximately 20 million speakers. The native tongue of the Yoruba people, it is spoken, among other languages, in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo and in communities in other parts of Africa, Europe and the Americas...

49 Nkrumah, Kwame
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana...

 
1968 Neo-colonialism: the last stage of imperialism. London : Heinemann Educational. (Originally published London : Nelson, 1965)
50 Clark, J. P.  1968 America: Their America. London, Heinemann Educational in association with Andre Deutsch. (Originally published London: Deutsch, 1964.)
51 Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature...

 (as Ngugi, James)
1968 The Black Hermit. Nairobi ; London [etc.] : Heinemann Educational, 1968.
52 Sellassie, B. M. Sahle
Sahle Sellassie
Berhane Mariam Sahle Sellassie is an Ethiopian author who has written in three languages: Gurage, English, and Amharic. He wrote the first novel in Chaha, a Gurage dialect, which was translated into English by Wolf Leslau for publication with the title Shinega's Village...

 
1969 The Afersata: an Ethiopian novel. London : Heinemann Educational.
53 Palangyo, Peter K.  1968 Dying in the Sun. Heinemann Educational
54 Serumaga, Robert  1969 Return to the Shadows. London: Heinemann.
55 Konadu, Asare
Asare Konadu
Samuel Asare Konadu was a Ghanaian journalist, novelist and publisher, who also wrote under the pseudonym Kwabena Asare Bediako....

 
1969 Ordained by the Oracle
56 Nwapu, Flora  1970 Idu. London: Heinemann Educational.
57 Dipoko, Mbella Sonne
Mbella Sonne Dipoko
Mbella Sonne Dipoko was a novelist, poet and painter from Cameroon. He is widely considered to be one of the foremost writers of Anglophone Cameroonian literature. -Works:...

 
1969 Because of Women. London : Heinemann Educational.
58 Beier, Ulli
Ulli Beier
Horst Ulrich Beier was a German editor, writer and scholar, who had a pioneering role in developing literature, drama and poetry in Nigeria, as well as literature, drama and poetry in Papua New Guinea...

, ed.
1969 Political spider: an anthology of stories from 'Black Orpheus
Black Orpheus
Black Orpheus is a 1959 film made in Brazil by French director Marcel Camus. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting it in the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during the Carnaval...

'
.
59 Asare, Bediao
Bediako Asare
Bediako Asare is an African journalist and author, initially from Ghana. He began his career working on local newspapers, then relocated to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to help launch The Nationalist newspaper...

 
1971 Rebel
Rebel (novel)
Rebel , by Bediako Asare, is a novel about the conflict between tradition and modernity in Africa. Set on an imaginary island off the African coast, it tells the story of the remote village of Pachanga, still unknown to the rest of the island, and the inhabitants who still live a traditional...

. London: Heinemann.
60 Honwana, Luís Bernardo
Luis Bernardo Honwana
-Biography:Luís Bernado Honwana was born Luís Augusto Bernardo Manuel in Lourenço Marques , Mozambique. His parents, Raúl Bernardo Manuel and Naly Jeremias Nhaca, belonged to the Ronga people from Moamba, a town about 55 km northwest of Maputo.He studied law in Portugal and worked for some...

 
1969 We Killed Mangy-Dog, & other stories. London: Heinemann Educational. Translated from the Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 by Dorothy Guedes.
61 Umeasiegbu, Rems Nna  1969 The Way We Lived: Ibo customs and stories. London : Heinemann Educational.
62 Ogikbo, Christopher
Christopher Okigbo
Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo was a Nigerian poet, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as the outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the twentieth century.-Early life:Okigbo was born on August...

 
1971 Labyrinths. With Path of Thunder. London: Heinemann Educational.
63 Ousmane, Sembene  1970 God's Bits of Wood. London, etc.: Heinemann. Translated by Francis Price.
64 Pieterse, Cosmo
Cosmo Pieterse
Cosmo George Leipoldt Pieterse is a South African playwright, actor, poet, literary critic and anthologist.Pieterse went to the University of Cape Town and taught in Cape Town until leaving South Africa in 1965. He was banned under the Riotous Assemblies Act of 1962...

, ed.
1971 7 South African poets : poems of exile. Heinemann Educational. Collected and selected by Cosmo Pieterse.
65 Emecheta, Buchi
Buchi Emecheta
Dr Buchi Emecheta is an African novelist who has published over 20 books, including Second-Class Citizen , The Bride Price , The Slave Girl and The Joys of Motherhood...

 
1979 The Joys of Motherhood. London: Heinemann Educational.
66 Salih, Tayeb
Tayeb Salih
-Early life:Born in Karmakol, near the village of Al Dabbah in the Northern Province of Sudan, he studied at the University of Khartoum before leaving for the University of London in England. Coming from a background of small farmers and religious teachers, his original intention was to work in...

 
1969 Season of Migration to the North. Oxford : Heinemann.Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
Denys Johnson-Davies
Denys Johnson-Davies is an eminent Arabic-into-English literary translator who has translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.Davies, referred to as “the...

 from the Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

 'Mawsim al-hijrah ilā al-shamāl'.
67 Nwanko, Nkem  1970 Danda. London: Heinemann Educational. (Originally published London: Deutsch, 1964)
68 Okara, Gabriel
Gabriel Okara
Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara is a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bomoundi in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. In 1979, he was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.-Writing:His most famous poem is "Piano and Drums"...

 
1970 The Voice. Introduction by Arthur Ravenscroft. London: Heinemann Educational. (Originally published London: Deutsch, 1964)
69 Liyong, Taban lo
Taban Lo Liyong
Taban Lo Liyong is one of Africa's well-known poets and writers of fiction and literary criticism. His political views, as well as his on-going denigration of the post-colonial system of education in East Africa, have inspired criticism and controversy since the late 1960s.His real name is...

 
1969 Fixions, and other stories. London : Heinemann Educational.
70 Aluko, T. M.
T. M. Aluko
Timothy Mofolorunso "T. M." Aluko was a Nigerian writer.A Yoruba, Aluko was born in Ilesha in Nigeria and studied at Government College, Ibadan, and Higher College, Yaba in Lagos. He then studied civil engineering and town planning at the University of London...

 
1970 Chief, The Honourable Minister. London: Heinemann.
71 Senghor, Léopold Sédar
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal . Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française. Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese...

 
1969 Nocturnes. Translated by John Reed
John O. Reed
John O. Reed is an anthologist and translator of African literature.With Clive Wake he has published several anthologies, as well as translations from French of the work of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, in Heinemann's African Writers Series...

 and Clive Wake
Clive Wake
Clive Wake is a critic, editor and translator of modern African and French literature.Born in Cape Town, Clive Wake studied at Cape Town University and the Sorbonne. He taught at the University of Rhodesia, and the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he is Emeritus Professor of French and...

 from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

. London : Heinemann Educational.
72 U'tam'si, Felix  1970 Selected poems. Translated by Gerald Moore
Gerald Moore (scholar)
Gerald Moore is an independent scholar living in Udine, Italy. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He has taught at many universities, including Sussex, Hong Kong, Makerere, Ife, Port Harcourt, Jos and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His last teaching post was at Trieste. He is...

 from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

. London: Heinemann.
73 Ortzen, Len, ed. 1970 North African Writing. Selected, translated, and with an introduction by Len Ortzen. London, etc.: Heinemann Educational Books.
74 Liyong, Taban lo
Taban Lo Liyong
Taban Lo Liyong is one of Africa's well-known poets and writers of fiction and literary criticism. His political views, as well as his on-going denigration of the post-colonial system of education in East Africa, have inspired criticism and controversy since the late 1960s.His real name is...

, ed.
1970 Eating Chiefs: Lwo culture from Lolwe to Malkal. Selected, interpreted and transmuted by Taban lo Liyong. London: Heinemann Educational.
75 Knappert, Jan
Jan Knappert
Dr. Jan Knappert was a well-known expert on the Swahili language. He was also an Esperantist, and he wrote an Esperanto-Swahili dictionary....

 
1970 Myths and legends of the Swahili. London: Heinemann Educational.
76 Soyinka, Wole
Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...

 
1970 The Interpreters
The Interpreters
The Interpreters were a Power pop band formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1996. They were composed of singer/bassist Herschel Gaer, guitarist Patsy Palladino and drummer Branko Jakominich. In 1997 they released the EP "In Rememberance[sic] of That Fine, Fine Evening" which was produced by...

. With introduction and notes by Eldred Jones. London: Heinemann. (Originally published London: Deutsch, 1965)
77 Beti, Mongo
Mongo Beti
Alexandre Biyidi Awala , known as Mongo Beti, was a Cameroonian writer.- Life :Though he lived in exile for many decades, Beti's life reveals an unflagging commitment to improvement of his home country...

 
1970 King Lazarus: a novel. London: Heinemann. Translated from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 Le roi miraculé (French version originally published Editions Buchet, 1958)
78 Pieterse, Cosmo
Cosmo Pieterse
Cosmo George Leipoldt Pieterse is a South African playwright, actor, poet, literary critic and anthologist.Pieterse went to the University of Cape Town and taught in Cape Town until leaving South Africa in 1965. He was banned under the Riotous Assemblies Act of 1962...

 
1972 Short African plays. London Heinemann. Including: 'Ancestral power' by Kofi Awoonor
Kofi Awoonor
Kofi Awoonor is a Ghanaian poet and author, whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization....

; 'Magic pool' by Kuldip Sondhi; 'God's deputy' by Sanya Dosunmu; 'Resurrection' by Richard Rive
Richard Rive
-Biography:Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class coloured District Six of Cape Town.His father was African, and his mother was coloured, and Rive was given the latter classification under apartheid...

; 'Life everlasting' by Pat Amadu Maddy; 'Lament' by Kofi Awoonor; 'Ballad of the cells' by Cosmo Pieterse; 'Overseas' by Mbella Sonne Dipoko
Mbella Sonne Dipoko
Mbella Sonne Dipoko was a novelist, poet and painter from Cameroon. He is widely considered to be one of the foremost writers of Anglophone Cameroonian literature. -Works:...

; 'This time tomorrow' by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature...

; 'Episodes of an Easter rising' by David Lytton
79 Chraibi, Driss
Driss Chraïbi
Driss Chraïbi was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often semi-autobiographical....

 
1972 Heirs to the Past. Translated by Len Ortzen from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

. London: Heinemann Educational. (Succession ouverte originally published Paris: Deno l, 1962)
80 Farah, Nuruddin
Nuruddin Farah
Nuruddin Farah is a prominent Somali novelist.-Early years:Born in Baidoa, Somalia, Farah is the son of a merchant father and a poet mother. As a child, he attended school at Kallafo in the Ogaden, and studied English, Arabic, and Amharic. In 1963, three years after Somalia's independence, Farah...

 
1970 From a Crooked Rib. London, Heinemann.
81 Mboya, Tom
Tom Mboya
Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya was a prominent Kenyan politician during Jomo Kenyatta's government. He was founder of the Nairobi People's Congress Party, a key figure in the formation of the Kenya African National Union , and the Minister of Economic Planning and Development at the time of his death...

 
1970 The Challenge of Nationhood: a collection of speeches and writings. London: Heinemann. Foreword by H. E. Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, and postscript by Pamela Mboya.
82 Dipoko, Mbella Sonne
Mbella Sonne Dipoko
Mbella Sonne Dipoko was a novelist, poet and painter from Cameroon. He is widely considered to be one of the foremost writers of Anglophone Cameroonian literature. -Works:...

 
1970 A Few Nights and Days. London : Heineman [sic] Educational. (Originally published, Harlow: Longmans, 1966.)
83 Knappert, Jan
Jan Knappert
Dr. Jan Knappert was a well-known expert on the Swahili language. He was also an Esperantist, and he wrote an Esperanto-Swahili dictionary....

 
1971 Myths and Legends of the Congo. Nairobi: Heinemann Educational Books
84 Ekwensi, Cyprian
Cyprian Ekwensi
Cyprian Ekwensi, MFR was a Nigerian short story writer and author of children's books.-Early life, education and family:Ekwensi, an Igbo, was born in Minna, Niger State...

 
1971 Beautiful Feathers. London: Heinemann Educational. (Originally published London: Hutchinson, 1963)
85 Onuora Nzekwu
Onuora Nzekwu
Onuora Nzekwu is a Nigerian professor, writer and editor from the Igbo people.-Works:*Wand of Noble Wood *Blade Among the Boys *Highlife for Lizards -References:...

 
1971 Wand of Noble Wood. London: Heinemann Educational.
86 Bebey, Francis
Francis Bebey
Francis Bebey was a Cameroonian artist, musician, and writer.Bebey attended the Sorbonne, and was further educated in the United States...

 
1971 Agatha Moudio's Son. Translated by Joyce A. Hutchinson from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 Le fils d'Agatha Moudio. London: Heinemann.
87 Dadié, Bernard B.  1971 Climbié. Translated by Karen C. Chapman from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

. London: Heinemann.
88 Beti, Mongo
Mongo Beti
Alexandre Biyidi Awala , known as Mongo Beti, was a Cameroonian writer.- Life :Though he lived in exile for many decades, Beti's life reveals an unflagging commitment to improvement of his home country...

 
1971 The Poor Christ of Bomba. Translated by Gerald Moore
Gerald Moore (scholar)
Gerald Moore is an independent scholar living in Udine, Italy. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He has taught at many universities, including Sussex, Hong Kong, Makerere, Ife, Port Harcourt, Jos and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His last teaching post was at Trieste. He is...

 from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 Le pauvre Christ de Bombay. London: Heinemann. (Original French edition published 1956)
89 Maddy, Pat Amadu  1971 Obasai and other plays. London: Heinemann.
90 Liyong, Taban lo
Taban Lo Liyong
Taban Lo Liyong is one of Africa's well-known poets and writers of fiction and literary criticism. His political views, as well as his on-going denigration of the post-colonial system of education in East Africa, have inspired criticism and controversy since the late 1960s.His real name is...

 
1971 Frantz Fanon's uneven ribs : poems more and more. London: Heinemann.
91 Nzekwu, Onuora
Onuora Nzekwu
Onuora Nzekwu is a Nigerian professor, writer and editor from the Igbo people.-Works:*Wand of Noble Wood *Blade Among the Boys *Highlife for Lizards -References:...

1972 Blade Among the Boys. London: Heinemann Educational. (Originally published London: Hutchinson, 1962)
92 Ousmane, Sembène  1972 The Money-Order; with, White Genesis. Translated by Clive Wake
Clive Wake
Clive Wake is a critic, editor and translator of modern African and French literature.Born in Cape Town, Clive Wake studied at Cape Town University and the Sorbonne. He taught at the University of Rhodesia, and the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he is Emeritus Professor of French and...

. London: Heinemann. (Translation of Vehi ciosane; ou, Blanche-genèse; suivi du Mandat, Paris: Présence africaine, 1965.)
93 Knappert, Jan
Jan Knappert
Dr. Jan Knappert was a well-known expert on the Swahili language. He was also an Esperantist, and he wrote an Esperanto-Swahili dictionary....

, ed.
1972 A Choice of Flowers. Chaguo la maua: an anthology of Swahili love poetry. Edited and translated from Swahili
Swahili language
Swahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia...

 by Jan Knappert. London: Heinemann Educational.
94 Munonye, John
John Munonye
John Munonye is an important important Igbo writer and one of the most important Nigerian writers of the twentieth of century. He was born in Akokwa, Nigeria, and was educated at the University of Ibadan and the Institute of Education, London...

 
1971 Oil Man of Obange. London: Heinemann Educational.
95 Ibrahim, Sonallah
Sonallah Ibrahim
Son'allah Ibrahim is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer and one of the "Sixties Generation" who is known for his leftist and nationalist views which are expressed rather directly in his work...

 
1971 The Smell Of It, and other stories. Translated from the Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

 by Denys Johnson-Davies
Denys Johnson-Davies
Denys Johnson-Davies is an eminent Arabic-into-English literary translator who has translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.Davies, referred to as “the...

. London: Heinemann Educational.
96 Cook, David
David Cook (literary critic)
David Cook was a British academic, literary critic and anthologist. As a Professor of Literature at the Universities of Makerere and Ilorin, he played an important role in encouraging literature in East Africa.-Life:...

 and Rubadiri, David
David Rubadiri
James David Rubadiri is a Malawian diplomat, academic and poet. At independence in 1964, Rubadiri was appointed Malawi's first ambassador to the United States and the United Nations...

, eds.
1971 Poems from East Africa. London: Heinemann Educational.
97 Mazrui, Ali A.  1971 The Trial of Christopher Okigbo. London: Heinemann.
98 Mulaisho, Dominic  1971 The Tongue of the Dumb. London: Heinemann.
99 Ouologuem, Yambo
Yambo Ouologuem
Yambo Ouologuem is a Malian writer. His first novel, Le Devoir de Violence , won the Prix Renaudot. He later published Lettre à la France nègre , and Les mille et une bibles du sexe under the pseudonym Utto Rodolph...

 
1971 Bound to Violence. Translated by Ralph Manheim
Ralph Manheim
Ralph Frederick Manheim was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian...

 from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 Devoi de violence. London: Heinemann. (Originally published London: Secker & Warburg, 1971.)
100 Achebe, Chinua
Chinua Achebe
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe popularly known as Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic...

 
1972 Girls At War. London : Heinemann Educational.
101 Head, Bessie
Bessie Head
Bessie Emery Head is usually considered Botswana's most influential writer.-Biography:Bessie Emery Head was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, the child of a wealthy white South African woman and a black servant when interracial relationships were illegal in South Africa...

 
1972 Maru. London : Heinemann Educational.
102 Omotoso, Kole  1971 The Edifice. London: Heinemann.
103 Peters, Lenrie
Lenrie Peters
Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters ) was a Gambian surgeon, novelist, and poet.-Background:Peters was born in Bathurst to Lenrie Ernest Ingram Peters and Kezia Rosemary. Lenrie Sr. was a Sierra Leone Creole of West Indian or black American origin. Kezia Rosemary was a Gambian Creole of Sierra Leonean...

 
1971 Katchikali. London: Heinemann. Poems.
104 Themba, Can
Can Themba
-Overview:He was born in Marabastad, near Pretoria, but wrote most of his work in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, South Africa before it was destroyed under the provisions of the apartheid Group Areas Act....

 
1972 The Will to Die. Selected by Donald Stuart and Roy Holland. London: Heinemann.
105 Lubega, Bonnie  1971 The Outcasts. London: Heinemann Educational.
106 Reed, John
John O. Reed
John O. Reed is an anthologist and translator of African literature.With Clive Wake he has published several anthologies, as well as translations from French of the work of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, in Heinemann's African Writers Series...

 and Wake, Clive
Clive Wake
Clive Wake is a critic, editor and translator of modern African and French literature.Born in Cape Town, Clive Wake studied at Cape Town University and the Sorbonne. He taught at the University of Rhodesia, and the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he is Emeritus Professor of French and...

, eds.
1972 French African verse. With English translations by John Reed & Clive Wake. London, etc.: Heinemann Educational.
107 Dipoko, Mbella Sonne
Mbella Sonne Dipoko
Mbella Sonne Dipoko was a novelist, poet and painter from Cameroon. He is widely considered to be one of the foremost writers of Anglophone Cameroonian literature. -Works:...

 
1972 Black and White in Love: poems. London: Heinemann Educational.
108 Awoonor, Kofi
Kofi Awoonor
Kofi Awoonor is a Ghanaian poet and author, whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization....

 
1972 This Earth, My Brother. London: Heinemann. (Originally published Garden City: Doubleday, 1971).
109 Obiechina, Emmanuel N.  1972 Onitsha Market Literature. London: Heinemann Educational.
110 La Guma, Alex
Alex La Guma
Alex La Guma was a South African novelist, leader of the South African Coloured People’s Organisation and a defendant in the Treason Trial, whose works helped characterise the movement against the apartheid era in South Africa...

 
1972 In the Fog of the Seasons' End. Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books.
111 Angira, Jared  1972 Silent Voices: poems. London: Heinemann Educational.
112 Vambe, Laurence  1972 An ill-fated people: Zimbabwe before and after Rhodes. London: Heinemann Educational. (Originally published with a foreword by Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing CH is a British writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos....

, London: Heinemann, 1972)
113 Mezu, S. Okechukwu  1971 Behind the Rising Sun. London: Heinemann.
114 Pieterse, Cosmo
Cosmo Pieterse
Cosmo George Leipoldt Pieterse is a South African playwright, actor, poet, literary critic and anthologist.Pieterse went to the University of Cape Town and taught in Cape Town until leaving South Africa in 1965. He was banned under the Riotous Assemblies Act of 1962...

 
1972 Five African Plays. London : Heinemann.
115 Brutus, Dennis
Dennis Brutus
Dennis Vincent Brutus was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have apartheid South Africa banned from the Olympic Games.-Life and work:...

 
1973 A Simple Lust: selected poems including Sirens knuckles boots ; Letters to Martha ; Poems from Algiers ; Thoughts abroad. London : Heinemann Educational.
116 Liyong, Taban lo
Taban Lo Liyong
Taban Lo Liyong is one of Africa's well-known poets and writers of fiction and literary criticism. His political views, as well as his on-going denigration of the post-colonial system of education in East Africa, have inspired criticism and controversy since the late 1960s.His real name is...

 
1972 Another Nigger Dead: poems. London : Heinemann Educational.
117 Hakim, Tawfiq al-  1973 Fate of a Cockroach: four plays of freedom. Selected and translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies
Denys Johnson-Davies
Denys Johnson-Davies is an eminent Arabic-into-English literary translator who has translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.Davies, referred to as “the...

. London: Heinemann Educational.
118 Amadu, Malum  1972 Amadu's bundle: Fulani tales of love and djinns. Collected by Malum Amadu; edited by Gulla Kell and translated into English by Ronald Moody
Ronald Moody
Ronald Moody was a Jamaican born sculptor, specialising in wood carvings.Moody was born Ronald Clive Moody in 1900 in Kingston, Jamaica into a well-off professional family, moving to London in 1923 to study dentistry at King's College London. In London, he was inspired by the British Museum's...

. London: Heinemann Educational.
119 Kane, Hamidou  1972 Ambiguous Adventure. Translated from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 by Katherine Woods. London: Heinemann. (This translation originally published, New York: Walker, 1963. Translation of 'L'Aventure ambiguë'. Paris: Julliard, 1962.)
120 Achebe, Chinua
Chinua Achebe
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe popularly known as Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic...

 
1970 Beware, Soul Brother: poems. Rev. and enl. ed. London: Heinemann Educational.
121 Munonye, John
John Munonye
John Munonye is an important important Igbo writer and one of the most important Nigerian writers of the twentieth of century. He was born in Akokwa, Nigeria, and was educated at the University of Ibadan and the Institute of Education, London...

 
1973 A Wreath for Maidens. [S.I.]: Heinemann
122 Omotoso, Kole  1972 The Combat. London : Heinemann Educational.
123 Mandela, Nelson
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...

 
1973 No Easy Walk to Freedom. London: Heinemann.
124 Dikobe, Modikwe
Modikwe Dikobe
Modikwe Dikobe was a novelist, poet, trade unionist and squatter leader in Johannesburg, South Africa in the 1940s. He worked as a hawker, clerk, domestic servant and night watchman.-Further Reading:...

 
1973 The Marabi Dance. London: Heinemann.
125 Worku, Daniachew  1973 The Thirteenth Sun. London: Heinemann.
126 Cheney-Coker, Syl
Syl Cheney-Coker
Syl Cheney-Coker is a poet, novelist, and journalist from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Educated in the United States, he has a global sense of literary history, and has introduced styles and techniques from French and Latin American literatures to Sierra Leone...

 
1973 Concerto for an Exile : poems. London: Heinemann.
127 Henderson, Gwyneth and Pieterse, Cosmo
Cosmo Pieterse
Cosmo George Leipoldt Pieterse is a South African playwright, actor, poet, literary critic and anthologist.Pieterse went to the University of Cape Town and taught in Cape Town until leaving South Africa in 1965. He was banned under the Riotous Assemblies Act of 1962...

, eds.
1973 Nine African plays for radio. London: Heinemann.
128 Zwelonke, D. M.  1973 Robben Island. London: Heinemann.
129 Egudu, Romanus and Nwoga, Donatus, eds. 1973 Igbo Traditional Verse. Compiled and translated by Romanus Egudu and Donatus Nwoga. London: Heinemann. (Originally published 1971 as Poetic Heritage.)
130 Aluko, T. M.
T. M. Aluko
Timothy Mofolorunso "T. M." Aluko was a Nigerian writer.A Yoruba, Aluko was born in Ilesha in Nigeria and studied at Government College, Ibadan, and Higher College, Yaba in Lagos. He then studied civil engineering and town planning at the University of London...

 
1973 His Worshipful Majesty. London: Heinemann.
131 Lessing, Doris
Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing CH is a British writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos....

 
1973 The Grass is Singing
The Grass Is Singing
The Grass Is Singing is the first novel, published in 1950, by British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing. It takes place in Rhodesia , in southern Africa, during the 1940s and deals with the racial politics between whites and blacks in that country...

132 Bown, Lalage  1973 Two centuries of African English: a survey and anthology of non-fictional English prose by African writers since 1769
133 Mukasa, Ham
Ham Mukasa
Ham Mukasa was a page in the court of Mutesa I of Buganda and later secretary to Apolo Kagwa. He was fluent in both English and Swahili. He wrote one of the first glossaries of the Ganda language language.-Early life:...

 
1975 Sir Apolo Kagwa discovers Britain. Edited by Taban lo Liyong
Taban Lo Liyong
Taban Lo Liyong is one of Africa's well-known poets and writers of fiction and literary criticism. His political views, as well as his on-going denigration of the post-colonial system of education in East Africa, have inspired criticism and controversy since the late 1960s.His real name is...

. London: Heinemann. (First published in 1904 under the title Uganda's Katikiro in England.)
134 Henderson, Gwyneth, ed. 1973 African Theatre: eight prize-winning plays for radio. London: Heinemann. Includes 'Make like slaves' by Richard Rive
Richard Rive
-Biography:Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class coloured District Six of Cape Town.His father was African, and his mother was coloured, and Rive was given the latter classification under apartheid...

; 'Station street' by A. K. Mustapha; 'Sweet scum of freedom' by J. Singh; 'Double attack' by C. C. Umeh; 'Scholarship woman' by D. Clems; 'The transistor radio' by K. Tsaro-Wiwa; 'Family spear' by E. N. Zirimu; and 'Sign of the rainbow' by W. Ogunyemi.
135 Maran, René
René Maran
René Maran was a French Guyanese poet and novelist, and the first black writer to win the French Prix Goncourt .-Biography:...

 
1973 Batouala. Translated by Barbara Beck and Alexandre Mboukou; introduction by Donald E. Herdeck. London: Heinemann.
136 Sekyi, Kobina
Kobina Sekyi
William Esuman-Gwira Sekyi, better known as Kobina Sekyi was a nationalist lawyer, politician and writer in the Gold Coast....

 
1974 The Blinkards. London: Heinemann.
137 Maddy, Yulisa Amadu  1973 No Past, No Present, No Future. London: Heinemann Educational.
138 Owusu, Martin  1973 The Sudden Return, and other plays. London: Heinemann Educational.
139 Ruheni, Mwangi  1973 The Future Leaders. London: Heinemann.
140 Amadi, Elechi
Elechi Amadi
Elechi Amadi is a Nigerian author who has written five African novels - The Concubine, The Great Ponds, The Slave , Isiburu and Estrangement...

 
1973 Sunset in Biafra: a civil war diary. London: Heinemann.
141 Nortje, Arthur
Arthur Nortje
Arthur Nortje was a South African poet.He was born in Oudtshoorn, and went to school in Port Elizabeth, being taught by the acclaimed writer Dennis Brutus...

 
1973 Dead roots. Poems. London: Heinemann.
142 Sembène, Ousmane
Ousmane Sembène
Ousmane Sembène , often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer...

 
1974 Tribal scars and other stories. Translated from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 by Len Ortzen. London: Heinemann.
143 Mwangi, Meja
Meja Mwangi
Meja Mwangi is one of Kenya's leading novelists. Mwangi has worked in the film industry, including screenwriting, assistant directing, casting and location management....

 
1973 Kill Me Quick. London: Heinemann Educational.
144 Fall, Malick
Malick Fall
Malick Fall is a former Senegal international football forward.-Career:Born in Matam, Fall moved to France as a youth and played for several clubs in Ligue 2, including Amiens SC, SC Abbeville and Angers SCO....

 
1973 The Wound. Translated by Clive Wake
Clive Wake
Clive Wake is a critic, editor and translator of modern African and French literature.Born in Cape Town, Clive Wake studied at Cape Town University and the Sorbonne. He taught at the University of Rhodesia, and the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he is Emeritus Professor of French and...

 from the French La plaie. London: Heinemann
145 Mwangi, Meja
Meja Mwangi
Meja Mwangi is one of Kenya's leading novelists. Mwangi has worked in the film industry, including screenwriting, assistant directing, casting and location management....

 
1973 Carcase for Hounds. London: Heinemann Educational.
146 Ekwensi, Cyprian
Cyprian Ekwensi
Cyprian Ekwensi, MFR was a Nigerian short story writer and author of children's books.-Early life, education and family:Ekwensi, an Igbo, was born in Minna, Niger State...

 
1975 Jagua Nana. London: Heinemann Educational. (Originally published, London: Hutchinson, 1961.)
147 p'Bitek, Okot
Okot p'Bitek
Okot p'Bitek was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be westernised...

 
1974 The Horn of My Love. London: Heinemann.
148 Aniebo, I. N. C.
I. N. C. Aniebo
Ifeanyichukwu Ndubuisi Chikezie Aniebo, commonly known as I. N. C. Aniebo is a Nigerian novelist and short story writer, who has been called "the master craftsman of the Nigerian short story"....

 
1974 The Anonymity of Sacrifice. London: Heinemann Educational.
149 Head, Bessie
Bessie Head
Bessie Emery Head is usually considered Botswana's most influential writer.-Biography:Bessie Emery Head was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, the child of a wealthy white South African woman and a black servant when interracial relationships were illegal in South Africa...

 
1974 A Question of Power. Heinemann Educational Books. (Originally published London: Davis-Poynter, 1974.)
150 Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature...

 
1975 Secret Lives, and other stories. London: Heinemann Educational.
151 Mahfouz, Naguib
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie...

 
1975 Midaq Alley. Translated from the Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

 by Trevor Le Gassick. London: Heinemann Educational.
152 La Guma, Alex
Alex La Guma
Alex La Guma was a South African novelist, leader of the South African Coloured People’s Organisation and a defendant in the Treason Trial, whose works helped characterise the movement against the apartheid era in South Africa...

 
1974 The Stone Country. London: Heinemann Educational. (Originally published 1967.)
153 Munonye, John
John Munonye
John Munonye is an important important Igbo writer and one of the most important Nigerian writers of the twentieth of century. He was born in Akokwa, Nigeria, and was educated at the University of Ibadan and the Institute of Education, London...

 
1975 A Dancer of Fortune. London: Heinemann.
154 Armah, Ayi Kwei
Ayi Kwei Armah
-Early life and education:Born to Fante-speaking parents, and descending on his father's side from a royal family in the Ga nation, Armah was born in the port city of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana, Having attended Achimota School, he left Ghana in 1959 to attend Groton School in Groton, MA. After...

 
1974 Fragments. London, Neiroi, Ibadan: Heinemann.
155 Armah, Ayi Kwei
Ayi Kwei Armah
-Early life and education:Born to Fante-speaking parents, and descending on his father's side from a royal family in the Ga nation, Armah was born in the port city of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana, Having attended Achimota School, he left Ghana in 1959 to attend Groton School in Groton, MA. After...

 
1974 Why Are We So Blest?: a novel. London: Heinemann.
156 Ruheni, Mwangi  1975 The Minister's Daughter. London, etc.: Heinemann.
157 Kayper-Mensah, A. W.  1975 The Drummer in Our Time. London: Heinemann Educational.
158 Kahiga, Samuel  1974 The Girl From Abroad. London: Heinemann Educational.
159 Mvungi, Martha
Martha Mvungi
Martha Mvungi, née Martha V. Mlangala is a Tanzanian writer in both Swahili and English.Three Solid Stones was a collection of Hehe and Bena folk tales in English translation....

 
1975 Three Solid Stones. London: Heinemann Educational.
160 Mwasi, George Simeon  1975 Strike a Blow and Die: the classic story of the Chilembwe Rising. Edited and introduced by Robert I. Rotberg
Robert I. Rotberg
Robert I. Rotberg is an American who served as President emeritus of the World Peace Foundation . An American professor in governance and foreign affairs, he was director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict, Conflict Prevention, and Conflict Resolution at Harvard University's John F...

. London, etc.: Heinemann.
160 Djoletu, Amu  1975 Money Galore. London [etc.] : Heinemann.
162 Kayira, Legson
Legson Kayira
Legson Didimu Kayira is a Malawian novelist. Kayira, an ethnic Tumbuka, received an education at Skagit Valley College, University of Washington and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. His early works focused on Malawi's rural life, while his later writings satired the Hastings Banda...

 
1974 The Detainee. London : Heinemann.
163 Sellassie, B. M. Sahle
Sahle Sellassie
Berhane Mariam Sahle Sellassie is an Ethiopian author who has written in three languages: Gurage, English, and Amharic. He wrote the first novel in Chaha, a Gurage dialect, which was translated into English by Wolf Leslau for publication with the title Shinega's Village...

 
1974 Warrior King. London : Heinemann Educational.
164 Royston, Robert
Robert Royston
Robert N. Royston was one of America’s most distinguished landscape architects, based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the United States. His design work and university teaching in the years following World War II helped define and establish the California modernism style in the...

 
1974 Black Poets in South Africa. London : Heinemann Educational.
165 Etherton, Michael, ed. 1975 African Plays for Playing 2. Plays by Nuwa Sentongo, Jacob Hevi & Segun Ajibade. Selected and edited by Michael Etherton. London : Heinemann.
166 De Graft, Joe  1975 Beneath the Jazz and Brass. London (etc.): Heinemann Educational.
167 Rabearivelo, Jean-Joseph  1975 Translations from the night: selected poems of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. Edited with English translations by Clive Wake
Clive Wake
Clive Wake is a critic, editor and translator of modern African and French literature.Born in Cape Town, Clive Wake studied at Cape Town University and the Sorbonne. He taught at the University of Rhodesia, and the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he is Emeritus Professor of French and...

 and John Reed
John O. Reed
John O. Reed is an anthologist and translator of African literature.With Clive Wake he has published several anthologies, as well as translations from French of the work of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, in Heinemann's African Writers Series...

. London [etc.]: Heinemann Educational.
169 Samkange, Stanlake  The Mourned One
170 Mungoshi, Charles
Charles Mungoshi
Charles Lovemore Mungoshi is a writer from Zimbabwe.Mungoshi's works include short stories and novels in both Shona and English. He also writes poetry, but views it as a "mere finger exercise." He has a wide range, including anti-colonial writings and children's books...

 
1975 Waiting for the Rain. London: Heinemann Educational.
171 Soyinka, Wole
Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...

, ed.
1975 Poems of Black Africa. Edited and introduced by Wole Soyinka. London: Heinemann.
172 Ekwensi, Cyprian
Cyprian Ekwensi
Cyprian Ekwensi, MFR was a Nigerian short story writer and author of children's books.-Early life, education and family:Ekwensi, an Igbo, was born in Minna, Niger State...

 
1975 Restless City and Christmas Gold. London: Heinemann.
173 Nwanko, Nkem  My Mercedes is Bigger Than Yours.
174 Diop, David Mandessi  1975 Hammer Blows. Translated from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 and edited by Simon Mpondo and Frank Jones. London : Heinemann.
175 Ousmane, Sembène  Xala.
176 Mwangi, Meja
Meja Mwangi
Meja Mwangi is one of Kenya's leading novelists. Mwangi has worked in the film industry, including screenwriting, assistant directing, casting and location management....

 
Gang Down River Road
178 Peteni, R. L.  Hill of Fools'.
181 Beti, Mongo
Mongo Beti
Alexandre Biyidi Awala , known as Mongo Beti, was a Cameroonian writer.- Life :Though he lived in exile for many decades, Beti's life reveals an unflagging commitment to improvement of his home country...

 
1978 Perpetua and the Habit of Unhappiness. London [etc.]: Heinemann Educational. Translated by Clive Wake
Clive Wake
Clive Wake is a critic, editor and translator of modern African and French literature.Born in Cape Town, Clive Wake studied at Cape Town University and the Sorbonne. He taught at the University of Rhodesia, and the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he is Emeritus Professor of French and...

 and John Reed
John O. Reed
John O. Reed is an anthologist and translator of African literature.With Clive Wake he has published several anthologies, as well as translations from French of the work of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, in Heinemann's African Writers Series...

 from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 
Perpétue et l'habitude du malheur (originally published Paris : Editions Buchet-Chastel, 1974).
183 Okara, Gabriel
Gabriel Okara
Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara is a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bomoundi in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. In 1979, he was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.-Writing:His most famous poem is "Piano and Drums"...

 
The Fisherman's Invocation.
186 Boateng, Yaw M.  1977 The Return. London ; Ibadan ; Nairobi : Heinemann.
188 Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature...

 
Petals of Blood
190 Samkange, Stanlake  Year of the Uprising
193 p'Bitek, Okot
Okot p'Bitek
Okot p'Bitek was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be westernised...

 
1978 Hare and Hornbill. Compiled and translated from the Acholi
Acholi language
Acholi is a language primarily spoken by the Acholi people in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader, a region known as Acholiland in northern Uganda. Acholi is also spoken in the southern part of the Opari District of South Sudan...

 by Okot p'Bitek. London: Heinemann.
194 Armah, Ayi Kwei
Ayi Kwei Armah
-Early life and education:Born to Fante-speaking parents, and descending on his father's side from a royal family in the Ga nation, Armah was born in the port city of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana, Having attended Achimota School, he left Ghana in 1959 to attend Groton School in Groton, MA. After...

 
1979 The Healers: an historical novel. London, Ibadan: Heinemann.
195 Munonye, John
John Munonye
John Munonye is an important important Igbo writer and one of the most important Nigerian writers of the twentieth of century. He was born in Akokwa, Nigeria, and was educated at the University of Ibadan and the Institute of Education, London...

 
1978 Bridge to a Wedding. London: Heinemann.
198 Cabral, Amilcar
Amílcar Cabral
Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was a Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, writer, and a nationalist thinker and politician. Also known by his nom de guerre Abel Djassi, Cabral led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands and the ensuing war of independence...

 
1979 Unity and Struggle: speeches and writings. Texts selected by the PAIGC; translated from Portugese by Michael Wolfers. London: Heinemann Educational.
200 Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature...

 
Devil on the Cross.
201 Plaatje, Sol T.  Mhudi.
203 Njau, Rebeka  Ripples in the Pool.
204 Dominic Mulaisho  The Smoke that Thunders
205 Bebey, Francis
Francis Bebey
Francis Bebey was a Cameroonian artist, musician, and writer.Bebey attended the Sorbonne, and was further educated in the United States...

 
1978 The Ashanti Doll. Translated from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 by Joyce A. Hutchinson. London [etc.]: Heinemann Educational.
206 Aniebo, I. N. C.
I. N. C. Aniebo
Ifeanyichukwu Ndubuisi Chikezie Aniebo, commonly known as I. N. C. Aniebo is a Nigerian novelist and short story writer, who has been called "the master craftsman of the Nigerian short story"....

 
1978 The Journey Within. London [etc.]: Heineman Educational.
Marechera, Dambudzo
Dambudzo Marechera
Dambudzo Marechera was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet.-Early life:...

 
The House of Hunger.
208 Brutus, Dennis
Dennis Brutus
Dennis Vincent Brutus was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have apartheid South Africa banned from the Olympic Games.-Life and work:...

 
1978 Stubborn Hope: new poems and selections. London: Heinemann.
210 Amadi, Elechi
Elechi Amadi
Elechi Amadi is a Nigerian author who has written five African novels - The Concubine, The Great Ponds, The Slave , Isiburu and Estrangement...

 
1978 The Slave. London: Heinemann.
214 Beti, Mongo
Mongo Beti
Alexandre Biyidi Awala , known as Mongo Beti, was a Cameroonian writer.- Life :Though he lived in exile for many decades, Beti's life reveals an unflagging commitment to improvement of his home country...

 
1980 Remember Ruben. Translated from the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 by Gerald Moore
Gerald Moore
Gerald Moore CBE was an English pianist best known for his career as one of the most in-demand accompanists of his day, accompanying many of the world's most famous musicians...

. London: Heinemann. (Originally published, Ibadan: New Horn, 1980.(
218 Armah, Ayi Kwei
Ayi Kwei Armah
-Early life and education:Born to Fante-speaking parents, and descending on his father's side from a royal family in the Ga nation, Armah was born in the port city of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana, Having attended Achimota School, he left Ghana in 1959 to attend Groton School in Groton, MA. After...

 
1979 Two Thousand Seasons. London: Heinemann.
221 Cheney-Coker, Syl
Syl Cheney-Coker
Syl Cheney-Coker is a poet, novelist, and journalist from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Educated in the United States, he has a global sense of literary history, and has introduced styles and techniques from French and Latin American literatures to Sierra Leone...

 
1973 The Graveyard Also Has Teeth, with Concerto for an Exile : poems. London: Heinemann.
225 Mahfouz, Naguib
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie...

 
Children of Gebelawi.
229 Mofolo, Thomas
Thomas Mofolo
Thomas Mokopu Mofolo is considered to be the greatest Basotho author. He wrote mostly in the Sesotho language, but his most popular book, Chaka, has been translated into English and other languages....

 
Chaka.
233 Nyamfukudza, S.  The Non-Believer's Journey.
236 Mapanje, Jack
Jack Mapanje
Jack Mapanje is a Malawian writer and poet. He was the former head of English at the University of Malawi, and is currently a senior lecturer in English at Newcastle University.-Works:* Of Chameleons and Gods, 1981...

 
Of Chameleons and Gods
Of Chameleons and Gods
Of Chameleons and Gods is the title of the first collection of poetry by Malawian poet Jack Mapanje, published in 1981 in the UK. Despite critical acclaim, the collection was withdrawn from circulation in Malawi, because it was seen as a critique of the current government and especially the leader...

.
237 Marechera, Dambudzo
Dambudzo Marechera
Dambudzo Marechera was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet.-Early life:...

 
Black Sunlight.
238 Peters, Lenrie
Lenrie Peters
Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters ) was a Gambian surgeon, novelist, and poet.-Background:Peters was born in Bathurst to Lenrie Ernest Ingram Peters and Kezia Rosemary. Lenrie Sr. was a Sierra Leone Creole of West Indian or black American origin. Kezia Rosemary was a Gambian Creole of Sierra Leonean...

 
Selected Poetry
240 Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature...

 
Detained
242 Aluko, T. M.
T. M. Aluko
Timothy Mofolorunso "T. M." Aluko was a Nigerian writer.A Yoruba, Aluko was born in Ilesha in Nigeria and studied at Government College, Ibadan, and Higher College, Yaba in Lagos. He then studied civil engineering and town planning at the University of London...

 
1982 Wrong Ones in the Dock. London: Heinemann.
249 Obasanjo, Olusegun  My Commands.
250 Ousmane, Sembène  The Last of the Empire.
253 Aniebo, I. N. C.
I. N. C. Aniebo
Ifeanyichukwu Ndubuisi Chikezie Aniebo, commonly known as I. N. C. Aniebo is a Nigerian novelist and short story writer, who has been called "the master craftsman of the Nigerian short story"....

1983 Of Wives, Talismans, and the Dead: short stories. Arranged by Willfred F. Feuser. London ; Exeter, N.H. : Heinemann.
258 Pheto, Molefe  And Night Fell
262 Nagenda, John
John Nagenda
John Nagenda, born 25 April 1938, Gahim, Ruanda-Urundi , is a former cricketer who played one One Day International in the 1975 World Cup for East Africa. He also appeared in one first-class cricket match in England in 1975, and played cricket for Uganda.-References:...

 
The Seasons of Thomas Tebo.
266 p'Bitek, Okot
Okot p'Bitek
Okot p'Bitek was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be westernised...

 
1984 Song of Lawino : &, Song of Ocol. Translated from Acoli by Okot p'Bitek. Introduction by G. A. Heron; illustrations by Frank Horle. London: Heinemann.
269 Pepetela
Pepetela
Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos is a major Angolan writer of fiction. He writes under the name Pepetela....

 
Mayombe'.
271 Rifaat, Alifa
Alifa Rifaat
Fatimah Rifaat better known by her pen name Alifa Rifaat, was an Egyptian author whose controversial short stories are renowned for their depictions of the dynamics of female sexuality, relationships, and loss in rural Egyptian culture...

 
Distant View of a Minaret.
272 Amadi, Elechi
Elechi Amadi
Elechi Amadi is a Nigerian author who has written five African novels - The Concubine, The Great Ponds, The Slave , Isiburu and Estrangement...

1986 Estrangement. London: Heinemann Educational.
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