Elechi Amadi
The Concubine
Mariama Ba (translated by Modupé Bodé-Thomas)
So Long a Letter
Nigel Barley
The Innocent Anthropologist
Notes from a Mud Hut
Mongo Beti (translated by Gerald Moore)
The Poor Christ of Bomba
Katherine A. Dettwyler
Dancing Skeletons
Life and Death in West Africa, 20th Anniversary Edition
Kevin Duffy
Children of the Forest
Africa’s Mbuti Pygmies
Buchi Emecheta
Kehinde
Olaudah Equiano, Paul Edwards
Equiano's Travels
Bessie Head
Maru
When Rain Clouds Gather
The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales
Kris Holloway
Monique and the Mango Rains
Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
Alta Jablow
Gassire's Lute
A West African Epic
Alex La Guma
In the Fog of the Seasons' End
Dambudzo Marechera
The House of Hunger
John Middleton
African Merchants of the Indian Ocean
Swahili of the East African Coast
Thomas Mofolo (translated by Daniel P. Kunene)
Chaka
Geert Mommersteeg
In the City of the Marabouts
Islamic Culture in West Africa
wa Thiong'o Ngugi, Micere Githae Mugo
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
Flora Nwapa
Efuru
Ferdinand Oyono (translated by John Reed)
Houseboy
The Old Man and the Medal
Okot p'Bitek
Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol
Diane C. Perlov
Driving the Samburu Bride
Fieldwork among Cattle Keepers in Kenya
Sol T Plaatje
Mhudi
Alifa Rifaat (translated by Denys Johnson-Davies)
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories
Véronique Tadjo (translated by Véronique Wakerley)
The Shadow of Imana
Travels in the Heart of Rwanda
Myriam Warner-Vieyra (translated by Betty Wilson)
Juletane