AFRICA'S 100 BEST NOVELS
CHILDREN LITERATURE
S/N AUTHOR surname, AUTHOR first name, COUNTRY, TITLE, PUBLISHER,
1. Asare, Meshack, Ghana, **Sosu's Call, Sub-Saharan Publishers
2. Al-Homi, Hayam Abbas, Egypt, Adventures of a Breath, Atfalna
3. Mungoshi, Charles, Zimbabwe, Stories from a Shona Childhood, Baobab Books
4. Tadjo, Veronique, Côte d'Ivoire, Mamy Wata et le monstre, Nouvelles éditions ivoriennes
CREATIVE WRITING
S/N AUTHOR surname, AUTHOR first name, COUNTRY, TITLE, PUBLISHER,
1. Abnudi, `Abd al-Rahman, Egypt, al-Mawt `ala al-asfalt, Atlas
2. Achebe, Chinua, Nigeria, Arrow of God, Heinemann
3. Achebe, Chinua, Nigeria, **Things Fall Apart, Heinemann
4. Aidoo, Ama Ata, Ghana, Anowa, Longman
5. Almeida, Germano, Cape Verde, O testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo, Ed. Caminho
6. Armah, Ayi Kwei, Ghana, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Heinemann
7. Bâ, Amadou Hampâté, Mali, L'étrange destin de Wangrin, Union générale d'éditions
8. Bâ, Mariama, Senegal, **Une si longue lettre, Nouvelles éditions africaines
9. Ben Jelloun, Tahar, Morocco, La nuit sacrée, Seuil
10. Beti, Mongo, Cameroon, Le pauvre Christ de Bomba, Présence africaine
11. Brink, André, South Africa, A Dry White Season, Penguin
12. Bugul, Ken, Senegal, Riwan, ou le chemin de sable, Présence africaine
13. Cheney-Choker, Syl, Sierra Leone, The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar, Heinemann
14. Chraibi, Driss, Morocco, Le passé simple, Gallimard
15. Coetzee, J.M., South Africa, Life and Times of Michael K, Secker & Warburg
16. Couto, Mia, Mozambique, **Terra sonâmbula, Ed. Caminho
17. Craveirinha, José, Mozambique, Karingana ua Karingana, Academica
18. Dadié, Bernard, Côte d'Ivoire, Climbié, Editions Segiers
19. Dangarembga, Tsitsi, Zimbabwe, **Nervous Conditions, Women's Press
20. Dib, Mohammed, Algeria, Algérie, La grande maison, L'incendie, Le métier à tisser, Le Seuil
21. Diop, Birago, Senegal, Les contes d'Amadou Koumba, Présence africaine
22. Diop, Boubacar Boris, Senegal, Murambi ou le livre des ossements, Stock
23. Djebar, Assia, Algeria, **L'amour, la fantasia, J.C. Lattes
24. Emecheta, Buchi, Nigeria, The Joys of Motherhood, Alison and Busby
25. Fagunwa, Daniel O., Nigeria, Ogboju ode ninu igbo irunmale, Nelson
26. Farah, Nuruddin, Somalia, Maps, Pan Books
27. Fugard, Athol, South Africa, The Blood Knot, Simondium Publishers
28. Ghitani, Jamal al-, Egypt, Zayni Barakat, GEBO
29. Gordimer, Nadine, South Africa, Burgher's Daughter, Jonathan Cape
30. Head, Bessie, South Africa, A Question of Power, Heinemann
31. Honwana, Bernardo, Mozambique, Nos matamos o cão tinhoso, Academica
32. Hove, Chenjerai, Zimbabwe, Bones, Baobab Books
33. Isegawa, Moses, Uganda, Abessijnse Kronieken, Uigeverij De Bezige Bij
34. Jordan, Archibald Campbell, South Africa, Ingqumbo yeminyanya, Lovedale Press
35. Joubert, Elsa, South Africa, Die Swerdjare van Poppie Nongena, Tafelberg
36. Kane, Cheikh Hamidou, Senegal, L'aventure ambiguë, Editions Juillard
37. Khosa, Ungulani Ba Ka, Mozambique, Ualalapi, AEMO
38. Kourouma, Ahmadou, Côte d'Ivoire, Les soleils des indépendances, Le Seuil
39. Laye, Camara, Guinea, L'enfant noir, Plon
40. Magona, Sindiwe, South Africa, Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night, David Philip Publishers
41. Mahfouz, Naguib, Egypt, **The Cairo Trilogy, Maktabet Misr
42. Marechera, Dambudzo, Zimbabwe, House of Hunger, Heinemann
43. Mofolo, Thomas, Lesotho, **Chaka, Morija Sesuto Book Depot
44. Monenembo, Tierno, Guinea, Un attieké pour Elgass, Le Seuil
45. Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo, South Africa, Indaba, My Children, Blue Crane Books
46. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kenya, Caitaani Mutharaba-ini, Heinemann
47. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kenya, **A Grain of Wheat, Heinemann
48. Niane, Djibril Tamsir, Senegal, Soundjata ou l'épopée mandingue, Présence africaine
49. Nyembezi, Sibusiso, South Africa, Inkinnsela yaseMgungundlovu, Shuter and Shooter
50. Okigbo, Christopher, Nigeria, Labyrinths, Heinemann
51. Okri, Ben, Nigeria, The Famished Road, Spectrum Books
52. Oyono, Ferdinand, Cameroon, Le vieux nègre et la médaille, Editions Juillard
53. P'Bitek, Okot, Uganda, Song of Lawino, Heinemann
54. Pepetela, Angola, A geração da utopia, Dom Quixote
55. Saadawi, Nawal El, Egypt, Woman at Point Zero, Zed Books
56. Salih El Tayyib, Sudan, Season of Migration to the North, Heinemann
57. Sassine, Williams, Guinea, Le jeune homme de sable, Présence africaine
58. Sembene, Ousmane, Senegal, Les bouts de bois de Dieu, Le livre contemporain
59. Senghor, Léopold Sédar, Senegal, **Ouevre poétique, Le Seuil
60. Serote, Mongane, South Africa, Third World Express, David Philip Publishers
61. Shabaan,Robert Bin, Tanzania, Utenzi wa vita vya uhuru, East African Literature Bureau
62. Sony Labou Tansi, Congo, La vie et demie, Seuil
63. Sow Fall, Aminata, Senegal, La grève des battus, Nouvelles éditions africaines
64. Soyinka, Wole, Nigeria, Death and the King's Horsemen, Spectrum
65. Tchicaya U Tam'si, Congo, Le mauvais sang - feu de brousse - à trisse-coeur, P.J. Swald
66. Tutuola, Amos, Nigeria, The Palm-wine Drinkard, Faber
67. Vera, Yvonne, Zimbabwe, Butterfly Burning, Baobab Books
68. Vieira, José Luandino, Angola, Nós os do Makulusu, [União dos Escritores Angolanos]
69. Vilakazi, B.W., South Africa, Amal'eZulu, Witwatersrand University Press
70. Yacine, Kateb, Algeria, Nedjma, Le Seuil
SCHOLARSHIP / NON-FICTIONAL
1. Amin, Samir, Egypt, Accumulation on a World Scale, Monthly Review Press
2. Amadiume, Ifi, Nigeria, Male Daughters, Female Husbands, Zed Books
3. Andrade,Mario de, Angola, Os nacionalismos africanos, Sa da Costa
4. Appiah, Anthony, Ghana, In My Father's House, Oxford University Press
5. Cabral, Amilcar, Guinea-Bissau, Unity and Struggle, Monthly Review Press
6. Chimera, Rocha, Kenya, Kiswahili, past, present and future horizons, Nairobi University Press
7. Diop, Cheikh Anta, Senegal, **Antériorité des civilisations nègres, Présence africaine
8. Doorkenoo, Efua, Ghana, Cutting the Rose, Minority Rights Group
9. Hayford, J.E. Casely, Ghana, Ethiopia Unbound, Cass
10. Hountondji, Paulin, Benin, Sur la philosophie africaine, François Maspero
11. Johnson, Samuel, Nigeria, The History of the Yorubas, G. Routledge & Sons
12. Kenyatta, Jomo, Kenya, Facing Mount Kenya, Secker & Warburg
13. Ki-Zerbo, Joseph, Burkina Faso, Histoire de l'Afrique noire, Hatier
14. Krog, Antjie, South Africa, Country of My Skull, Jonathan Cape
15. Mama, Amina, Nigeria, Beyond the Mask, Race, Gender and Identity, Routledge
16. Mamdani, Mahmood, Uganda, Citizen and Subject, James Currey Publishers
17. Mandela, Nelson, South Africa, Long Walk to Freedom, Little Brown
18. Marais, Eugene, South Africa, Die Siel van die Mier, J.L. van Schaik
19. Memmi, Albert, Tunisia, Portrait du colonisé suivi de portrait du colonisateur, L'Etincelle
20. Mondlane, Eduardo, Mozambique, The Struggle for Mozambique, Penguin
21. Mphahlele, Ezekiel, South Africa, Down Second Avenue, Faber & Faber
22. Mudimbe, V.Y., Dem. Rep. of Congo, The Invention of Africa, Indiana University Press
23. Nkrumah, Kwame, Ghana, Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson
24. Plaatje, Sol, South Africa, Native Life in South Africa, P.S. King
25. Soyinka, Wole, Nigeria, **Ake: The Years of Childhood, Rex Collings
26. Van Onselen, Charles, South Africa, The Seed is Mine, David Philip Publishers