Heinemann African Writers Series

African Writers Series (AWS) is a series of books by African writers that has been published by Heinemann since 1962. The series has ensured an international voice to major African writers—including Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko, Ama Ata Aidoo, Nadine Gordimer, Buchi Emecheta, and Okot p'Bitek. The emphasis is on Anglophone Africa, although a number of volumes were translated into English from French, Portuguese, Zulu, Swahili, Acholi, Sesotho, Afrikaans, Luganda and Arabic.

History

Founded in 1962, the AWS created a forum for many post-independence African writers, and provided texts that African universities could use to address the colonial bias then prominent in the teaching of literature. The books were designed for classroom use, printed solely in paperback to make them affordable for African students. They were published by Heinemann Educational Books (HEB) in London and in various African cities.

The idea of the series came from Heinemann executive Alan Hill, who "recognised that the nascent post-colonial publishing industry was not supporting the growth of original African literature". The first advisory editor to the series was the Nigerian Chinua Achebe – who became one of Africa's most famous writers. Achebe focused first on West African writers, but soon the series branched out, publishing the works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in East Africa, and Nadine Gordimer in South Africa. 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 entitled Africa Writes Back.

After a fairly successful beginning, the series faced difficulties that mirrored those that faced the continent. By the mid-1980s, Heinemann published only one or two new titles a year, and much of the back catalogue fell out of print. By the early 1990s, however, the series began to revive—branching into new work, republishing originally locally released texts, and releasing translated works. Adewale Maja-Pearce was editor of the series from 1986 to 1994).

The AWS was relaunched by Pearson Education in 2011.

List of authors and books in the African Writers Series

Number	Author	Year	Title
1	Achebe, Chinua	1962	Things Fall Apart
2	Ekwensi, Cyprian	1962	Burning Grass: a story of the Fulani of Northern Nigeria. Illustrated by A. Folarin; cover drawing by Dennis Duerden.
3	Achebe, Chinua	1963	No Longer at Ease. Illustrated by Bruce Onobrakpeya.
4	Kaunda, Kenneth D.	1962	Zambia Shall Be Free: an autobiography
5	Ekwensi, Cyprian	1963	People of the City. Revised edition. (Originally published London: Dakers, 1954.)
6	Abrahams, Peter	1963	Mine Boy. Illustrated by Ruth Yudelowitz. (London: Crisp, 1946; London: Faber, 1954; New York: Knopf, 1955.)
7	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (as Ngugi, James)	1964	Weep Not, Child
8	Reed, John, Wake, Clive, eds	1964	A Book of African Verse. Later edition published (1984) as New Book of African Verse.
9	Rive, Richard, ed.	1964	Modern African Prose. An anthology compiled and edited by Richard Rive. Illustrated by Albert Adams. Contributions by Peter Abrahams, Chinua Achebe, Es'kia Mphahlele, Abioseh Nicol, Richard Rive, Alfred Hutchinson, Efua Sutherland, Jonathan Kariara, Peter Clarke, Luis Bernardo Honwana, Jack Cope, Cyprian Ekwensi, Amos Tutuola, Camara Laye, James Matthews, Alf Wannenburgh, William Conton, Onuora Nzekwu, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
10	Equiano, Olaudah	1966	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
11	Aluko, T. M.	1964	One Man, One Matchet
12	Conton, William	1964	The African. (Previously published London: Heinemann, 1960. Boston: Little Brown, 1960.)
13	Beti, Mongo	1964	Mission to Kala: a novel. Translated by Peter Green from the French novel Mission terminée (1957). US edition (New York, Macmillan) published as Mission Accomplished.
14	Rive, Richard, ed.	1963	Quartet: New voices from South Africa. Short stories by Alex La Guma, James Matthews, Richard Rive and Alf Wannenburgh.
15	Cook, David	1965	Origin East Africa: a Makerere anthology devised and edited by David Cook. Prose and verse.
16	Achebe, Chinua	1966	Arrow of God
17	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (as Ngugi, James)	1965	The River Between
18	Obotunde Ijimere	1966	The Imprisonment of Obatala, and other plays.
19	Ekwensi, Cyprian	1966	Lokotown and Other Stories.
20	Gatheru, Mugo	1966	Child of Two Worlds.
21	Munonye, John	1966	The Only Son.
22	Peters, Lenrie	1966	The Second Round.
23	Beier, Ulli, ed.	1966	The Origin of Life and Death: African creation myths.
24	Kachingwe, Aubrey	1966	No Easy Task.
25	Amadi, Elechi	1966	The Concubine. Heinemann: London.
26	Nwapa, Flora	1966	Efuru.
27	Selormey, Francis	1966	The Narrow Path.
28	Cook, David, Lee, Miles, eds	1968	Short East African Plays in English: Ten plays in English.
29	Oyono, Ferdinand	1966	Houseboy. Translated by John Reed from the French Une vie de boy
30	Aluko, T. M.	1967	One Man, One Wife.
31	Achebe, Chinua	1966	A Man of the People. (Originally published: Nigerian Printing and Publishing, 1959.)
32	Aluko, T. M.	1966	Kinsman and Foreman
33	Samkange, Stanlake	1967	On Trial for my Country
34	Pieterse, Cosmo, ed.	1968	Ten One-Act Plays. Includes "Encounter" by Kuldip Sondhi; "Yon Kon" by Pat Maddy; "The Game" by Femi Euba; "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; "Maama" by Kwesi Kay; and "The Occupation" by Athol Fugard
35	La Guma, Alex	1968	A Walk in the Night and other stories.
36	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (as Ngugi, James)	1967	A Grain of Wheat.
37	Peters, Lenrie	1967	Satellites
38	Oginga Odinga	1967	Not Yet Uhuru: the autobiography of Oginga Odinga. With a foreword by Kwame Nkrumah.
39	Oyono, Ferdinand	1967	The Old Man and the Medal. Translated by John Reed from the French Le vieux nègre et la médaille.
40	Konadu, Asare	1967	A Woman in Her Prime
41	Djoleto, Amu	1967	The Strange Man.
42	Awoonor, Kofi and Adali, Mortty, G.	1970	Messages: poems from Ghana.
43	Armah, Ayi Kwei	1969	The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.)
44	Amadi, Elechi	1969	The Great Ponds.
45	Munonye, John	1969	Obi.
46	Brutus, Dennis	1968	Letters to Martha: and other poems from a South African prison.
47	Salih, Tayeb	1969	The Wedding of Zein, and other stories. London; printed in Malta: HEB, 1969. Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies from the Arabic, and illustrated by Ibrahim Salahi.
48	Gbadamosi, Bakare; Beier, Ulli	1968	Not Even God Is Ripe Enough. Translated from the Yoruba
49	Nkrumah, Kwame	1968	Neo-colonialism: the last stage of imperialism. (Originally published London: Nelson, 1965)
50	Clark, J. P.	1968	America: Their America. London: HEB in association with Andre Deutsch. (Originally published London: Deutsch, 1964.)
51	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (as Ngugi, James)	1968	The Black Hermit.
52	Sellassie, B. M. Sahle	1969	The Afersata: an Ethiopian novel. London: HEB.
53	Palangyo, Peter K.	1968	Dying in the Sun.136pp
54	Serumaga, Robert	1969	Return to the Shadows.
55	Konadu, Asare	1969	Ordained by the Oracle. 160 pp. Originally published as Come Back Dora, Accra: Anowuo Educational Publ.
56	Nwapa, Flora	1970	Idu.
57	Dipoko, Mbella Sonne	1969	Because of Women.
58	Beier, Ulli, ed.	1969	Political Spider: an anthology of stories from "Black Orpheus".
59	Asare, Bediako	1971	Rebel.
60	Honwana, Luís Bernardo	1969	We Killed Mangy Dog and Other Stories. Translated from the Portuguese by Dorothy Guedes.
61	Umeasiegbu, Rems Nna	1969	The Way We Lived: Ibo customs and stories.
62	Okigbo, Christopher	1971	Labyrinths. With Path of Thunder.
63	Ousmane, Sembene	1970	God's Bits of Wood. Translated by Francis Price.
64	Pieterse, Cosmo, ed.	1971	7 South African Poets: poems of exile. Collected and selected by Cosmo Pieterse.
65	Emecheta, Buchi	1980	The Joys of Motherhood. (Originally published London: Allison & Busby, 1979).
66	Salih, Tayeb	1969	Season of Migration to the North. Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies from the Arabic Mawsim al-hijrah ilā al-shamāl.
67	Nwankwo, Nkem	1970	Danda. (Originally published London: Deutsch, 1964)
68	Okara, Gabriel	1970	The Voice. Introduction by Arthur Ravenscroft. (Originally published London: Deutsch, 1964)
69	Liyong, Taban lo	1969	Fixions, and other stories.
70	Aluko, T. M.	1970	Chief, The Honourable Minister.
71	Senghor, Léopold Sédar	1969	Nocturnes. Translated by John Reed and Clive Wake from the French.
72	U'tamsi, Felix	1970	Selected Poems. Translated by Gerald Moore from the French.
73	Ortzen, Len, ed.	1970	North African Writing. Selected, translated, and with an introduction by Len Ortzen.
74	Liyong, Taban lo, ed.	1970	Eating Chiefs: Lwo culture from Lolwe to Malkal. Selected, interpreted and transmuted by Taban lo Liyong.
75	Knappert, Jan	1970	Myths and Legends of the Swahili.
76	Soyinka, Wole	1970	The Interpreters. With introduction and notes by Eldred Jones. London: Heinemann. (Originally published London: Deutsch, 1965.)
77	Beti, Mongo	1970	King Lazarus: a novel. Translated from the French Le roi miraculé (French version originally published Editions Buchet, 1958.)
78	Pieterse, Cosmo	1972	Short African plays. Including: "Ancestral Power" by Kofi Awoonor; "Magic Pool" by Kuldip Sondhi; "God's Deputy" by Sanya Dosunmu; "Resurrection" by Richard Rive; "Life Everlasting" by Pat Amadu Maddy; "Lament" by Kofi Awoonor; "Ballad of the Cells" by Cosmo Pieterse; "Overseas" by Mbella Sonne Dipoko; "This Time Tomorrow" by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o; "Episodes of an Easter Rising" by David Lytton
79	Chraibi, Driss	1972	Heirs to the Past. Translated by Len Ortzen from the French.(Succession ouverte originally published Paris: Denoël, 1962.)
80	Farah, Nuruddin	1970	From a Crooked Rib.
81	Mboya, Tom	1970	The Challenge of Nationhood: a collection of speeches and writings. Foreword by H. E. Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, and postscript by Pamela Mboya.
82	Dipoko, Mbella Sonne	1970	A Few Nights and Days. (Originally published, Harlow: Longmans, 1966.)
83	Knappert, Jan	1971	Myths and Legends of the Congo. Nairobi: HEB.
84	Ekwensi, Cyprian	1971	Beautiful Feathers. (Originally published London: Hutchinson, 1963)
85	Onuora Nzekwu	1971	Wand of Noble Wood.
86	Bebey, Francis	1971	Agatha Moudio's Son. Translated by Joyce A. Hutchinson from the French Le fils d'Agatha Moudio.
87	Dadié, Bernard B.	1971	Climbié. Translated by Karen C. Chapman from the French.
88	Beti, Mongo	1971	The Poor Christ of Bomba. Translated by Gerald Moore from the French Le pauvre Christ de Bombay. (Original French edition published 1956.)
89	Maddy, Pat Amadu	1971	Obasai and other plays.
90	Liyong, Taban lo	1971	Frantz Fanon's Uneven Ribs: poems more and more.
91	Nzekwu, Onuora	1972	Blade Among the Boys. (Originally published London: Hutchinson, 1962.)
92	Ousmane, Sembène	1972	The Money-Order; with, White Genesis. Translated by Clive Wake. London: Heinemann. (Translation of Vehi ciosane; ou, Blanche-genèse; suivi du Mandat, Paris: Présence Africaine, 1965.)
93	Knappert, Jan, ed.	1972	A Choice of Flowers. Chaguo la Maua: an anthology of Swahili love poetry. Edited and translated from Swahili by Jan Knappert.
94	Munonye, John	1971	Oil Man of Obange.
95	Ibrahim, Sonallah	1971	The Smell Of It, and other stories. Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies.
96	Cook, David, Rubadiri, David, eds	1971	Poems from East Africa.
97	Mazrui, Ali A.	1971	The Trial of Christopher Okigbo.
98	Mulaisho, Dominic	1971	The Tongue of the Dumb.
99	Ouologuem, Yambo	1971	Bound to Violence. Translated by Ralph Manheim from the French Devoi de violence. (Originally published London: Secker & Warburg, 1971.)
100	Achebe, Chinua	1972	Girls At War.
101	Head, Bessie	1972	Maru.
102	Omotoso, Kole	1971	The Edifice.
103	Peters, Lenrie	1971	Katchikali. Poems.
104	Themba, Can	1972	The Will to Die. Selected by Donald Stuart and Roy Holland.
105	Lubega, Bonnie	1971	The Outcasts.
106	Reed, John, Wake, Clive, eds	1972	French African verse. With English translations by John Reed & Clive Wake.
107	Dipoko, Mbella Sonne	1972	Black and White in Love: poems.
108	Awoonor, Kofi	1972	This Earth, My Brother. (Originally published Garden City: Doubleday, 1971.)
109	Obiechina, Emmanuel N.	1972	Onitsha Market Literature.
110	La Guma, Alex	1972	In the Fog of the Seasons' End.
111	Angira, Jared	1972	Silent Voices: poems.
112	Vambe, Laurence	1972	An Ill-Fated People: Zimbabwe before and after Rhodes. (Originally published with a foreword by Doris Lessing, London: Heinemann, 1972.)
113	Mezu, S. Okechukwu	1971	Behind the Rising Sun.
114	Pieterse, Cosmo	1972	Five African Plays.
115	Brutus, Dennis	1973	A Simple Lust: selected poems including Sirens Knuckles Boots; Letters to Martha; Poems from Algiers; Thoughts Abroad.
116	Liyong, Taban lo	1972	Another Nigger Dead: poems.
117	Hakim, Tawfiq al-	1973	Fate of a Cockroach: four plays of freedom. Selected and translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies.
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.
119	Kane, Hamidou	1972	Ambiguous Adventure. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. (This translation originally published New York: Walker, 1963. Translation of L'Aventure ambiguë. Paris: Julliard, 1962.)
120	Achebe, Chinua	1970	Beware, Soul Brother. Revised and enlarged edition. London: HEB.
121	Munonye, John	1973	A Wreath for Maidens. [S.I.]: Heinemann
122	Omotoso, Kole	1972	The Combat.
123	Mandela, Nelson	1973	No Easy Walk to Freedom.
124	Dikobe, Modikwe	1973	The Marabi Dance.
125	Worku, Daniachew	1973	The Thirteenth Sun.
126	Cheney-Coker, Syl	1973	Concerto for an Exile: poems.
127	Henderson, Gwyneth, Pieterse, Cosmo, eds	1973	Nine African Plays for Radio.
128	Zwelonke, D. M.	1973	Robben Island.
129	Egudu, Romanus, Nwoga, Donatus, eds	1973	Igbo Traditional Verse. Compiled and translated by Romanus Egudu and Donatus Nwoga. (Originally published 1971 as Poetic Heritage.)
130	Aluko, T. M.	1973	His Worshipful Majesty.
131	Lessing, Doris	1973	The Grass is Singing
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	1975	Sir Apolo Kagwa Discovers Britain. Edited by Taban lo Liyong. (First published in 1904 as Uganda's Katikiro in England.)
134	Henderson, Gwyneth, ed.	1973	African Theatre: eight prize-winning plays for radio. Includes "Make Like Slaves" by Richard Rive; "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	1973	Batouala. Translated by Barbara Beck and Alexandre Mboukou; introduction by Donald E. Herdeck.
136	Sekyi, Kobina	1974	The Blinkards.
137	Maddy, Yulisa Amadu	1973	No Past, No Present, No Future.
138	Owusu, Martin	1973	The Sudden Return, and other plays.
139	Ruheni, Mwangi	1973	The Future Leaders.
140	Amadi, Elechi	1973	Sunset in Biafra: a civil war diary.
141	Nortje, Arthur	1973	Dead Roots. Poems.
142	Sembène, Ousmane	1974	Tribal Scars and other stories. Translated from the French by Len Ortzen.
143	Mwangi, Meja	1973	Kill Me Quick.
144	Fall, Malick	1973	The Wound. Translated by Clive Wake from the French La plaie.
145	Mwangi, Meja	1973	Carcase for Hounds.
146	Ekwensi, Cyprian	1975	Jagua Nana. (Originally published, London: Hutchinson, 1961.)
147	p'Bitek, Okot	1974	The Horn of My Love.
148	Aniebo, I. N. C.	1974	The Anonymity of Sacrifice.
149	Head, Bessie	1974	A Question of Power. (Originally published London: Davis-Poynter, 1974.)
150	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	1975	Secret Lives, and other stories.
151	Mahfouz, Naguib	1975	Midaq Alley. Translated from the Arabic by Trevor Le Gassick.
152	La Guma, Alex	1974	The Stone-Country. (Originally published 1967.)
153	Munonye, John	1975	A Dancer of Fortune. (London: William Heinemann, 1974.)
154	Armah, Ayi Kwei	1974	Fragments.
155	Armah, Ayi Kwei	1974	Why Are We So Blest?: a novel. London: Heinemann.
156	Ruheni, Mwangi	1975	The Minister's Daughter.
157	Kayper-Mensah, A. W.	1975	The Drummer in Our Time.
158	Kahiga, Samuel	1974	The Girl From Abroad.
159	Mvungi, Martha	1975	Three Solid Stones.
160	Mwasi, George Simeon	1975	Strike a Blow and Die: the classic story of the Chilembwe Rising. Edited and introduced by Robert I. Rotberg.
161	Djoleto, Amu	1975	Money Galore.
162	Kayira, Legson	1974	The Detainee. London: Heinemann.
163	Sellassie, B. M. Sahle	1974	Warrior King.
164	Royston, Robert	1974	Black Poets in South Africa.
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.
167	Rabearivelo, Jean-Joseph	1975	Translations from the Night: selected poems of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. Edited with English translations by Clive Wake and John Reed.
168	Echewa, T. Obinkaram	1976	The Land's Lord.
169	Samkange, Stanlake	1975	The Mourned One.
170	Mungoshi, Charles	1975	Waiting for the Rain.
171	Soyinka, Wole, ed.	1975	Poems of Black Africa. Edited and introduced by Wole Soyinka. London: Heinemann.
172	Ekwensi, Cyprian	1975	Restless City and Christmas Gold. London: Heinemann.
173	Nwankwo, Nkem	1975	My Mercedes is Bigger Than Yours.
174	Diop, David Mandessi	1975	Hammer Blows. Translated from the French and edited by Simon Mpondo and Frank Jones. London: Heinemann.
175	Ousmane, Sembène	1976	Xala. Translated from the French by Clive Wake. As Xala: roman, Paris: Présence Africaine, 1973.
176	Mwangi, Meja	1976	Going Down River Road.
177	Gordimer, Nadine	1976	Some Monday for Sure.
178	Peteni, R. L.	1976	Hill of Fools.
179	Etherton, Michael (ed.)	1976	African Plays for Playing 2. Includes Monkey on the tree by Uwa Udensi, Black mamba two by Godfrey Kabwe Kasoma and The tradedy of Mr. No-balance by Victor Eleame Musinga.
180	Senghor, Léopold Sédar	1976	Prose and Poetry. Selected and translated from French by John Reed and Clive Wake.
181	Beti, Mongo	1978	Perpetua and the Habit of Unhappiness. Translated by Clive Wake and John Reed from the French Perpétue et l'habitude du malheur (originally published Paris: Editions Buchet-Chastel, 1974).
182	Head, Bessie	1977	The Collector of Treasures.
183	Okara, Gabriel	1978	The Fisherman's Invocation.
184	Farah, Nuruddin	1976	A Naked Needle.
185	Ekwensi, Cyprian	1976	Survive the Peace.
186	Boateng, Yaw M.	1977	The Return.
187	Rugyendo, Mukotani	1976	Barbed Wire and Other Plays.
188	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	1977	Petals of Blood.
189	Iroh, Eddie	1976	Forty-eight Guns for the General
190	Samkange, Stanlake	1978	Year of the Uprising
191	Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa & Mugo, Micere Githae	1976	The trial of Dedan Kimathi
192	Jahadmy, Ali A. (ed.)	1977	Anthology of Swahili poetry. Parallel Swahili text and English translation. Selected and translated by Ali A. Jahadmy.
193	p'Bitek, Okot	1978	Hare and Hornbill. Compiled and translated from the Acholi by Okot p'Bitek. London: Heinemann.
194	Armah, Ayi Kwei	1979	The Healers: an historical novel.
195	Munonye, John	1978	Bridge to a Wedding. London: Heinemann.
196	Johnson-Davies, Denys (ed.)	1978	Egyptian short stories. Includes "House of flesh" by Yusuf Idris, "Grandad Hasan" by Yahya Taher Abdullah, "Within the walls" by Edward El-Kharrat, "The performer" by Ibrahim Aslan, "The whistle" by Abdul Hakim Kassem, "Suddenly it rained" by Baha Taher, "The man who saw the sole of his left foot in a cracked mirror" by Lutfi Al-Khouli, "A conversation from the third floor" by Mohamed El-Bisatie, "Yusuf Murad Morcos" by Nabil Gorgy, "The conjurer made off with the dish" by Naguib Mahfouz, "The accusation" by Suleiman Fayyad, "A place under the dome" by Abdul Rahman Fahmy, "The country boy" by Yusuf Sibai, "The snake" by Sonallah Ibrahim, "The crush of life" by Yusuf Sharouni, "A story from prison" by Yahya Hakki & "The child and the king" by Gamil Atia Ibrahim.
197	Mahfouz, Naguib	1978	Miramar. Edited and revised by Maged el Kommos and John Rodenbeck; introduced by John Fowles.
198	Cabral, Amilcar	1979	Unity and Struggle: speeches and writings. Texts selected by the PAIGC; translated from Portuguese by Michael Wolfers.
199	Sassine, Williams	1980	Wirriyamu. Translated from the French by John Reed and Clive Wake.
200	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	1982	Devil on the Cross.
201	Plaatje, Sol T.	1978	Mhudi: an epic of South African native life a hundred years ago. (New York: Negro Univ. Press, 1970; Johannesburg: Quagga Press, Ad. Donker, 1975; London: Rex Collings, 1976; Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1978).
202	Vieira, José Luandino	1978	The Real Life of Domingos Xavier. Translated from the Portuguese by Michael Wolfers.
203	Njau, Rebeka	1978	Ripples in the Pool. (Nairobi: Transafrica, 1975.)
204	Mulaisho, Dominic	1979	The Smoke that Thunders
205	Bebey, Francis	1978	The Ashanti Doll. Translated from the French by Joyce A. Hutchinson.
206	Aniebo, I. N. C.	1978	The Journey Within.
207	Marechera, Dambudzo	1978	The House of Hunger.
208	Brutus, Dennis	1978	Stubborn Hope: new poems and selections. London: Heinemann.
209	Idris, Yusuf	1978	The Cheapest Nights, and other stories. Translated from the Arabic by Wadida Wassef.
210	Amadi, Elechi	1978	The Slave.
211	Kunene, Mazisi	1979	Emperor Shaka the great: a Zulu epic. Translated from the Zulu by the author.
212	Le Guma, Alex	1979	Time of the Butcherbird. (Heinemann, 1979)
213	Iroh, Eddie	1979	Toads of War.
214	Beti, Mongo	1980	Remember Ruben. Translated from the French by Gerald Moore. (Originally published Ibadan: New Horn, 1980.)
215	Wolfers, Michael (ed.)	1979	Poems from Angola. Selected, translated and introduced by Michael Wolfers.
216	Yirenki, Asiedu	1980	Kivuli and other plays.
217	Biko, Steve	1979	I Write What I Like: a selection of his writings. Edited by Aelred Stubbs.
218	Armah, Ayi Kwei	1979	Two Thousand Seasons. London: Heinemann.
219	Kenyatta, Jomo	1979	Facing Mount Kenya: the traditional life of the Gikuyu. With an introduction by B. Malinowski. (Originally published London: Secker and Warburg, 1938.)
220	Head, Bessie	1981	Serowe, Village of the Rain Wind.
221	Cheney-Coker, Syl	1973	The Graveyard Also Has Teeth, with Concerto for an Exile: poems. London: Heinemann.
222	Vieira, José Luandino	1980	Luuanda. Translated from the Portuguese by Tamara L. Bender. London: Heinemann.
223	Ghanem, Fathy	1980	The Man who Lost his Shadow: a novel in four books. Translated from the Arabic by Desmond Stewart.
224	Kavanagh, Robert Mshengu (ed.)	1981	South African people's plays. Includes uNosilimela by Credo V. Mutwa, Shanti by Mthuli Shezi, Too Late by Gibson Kente & Survival by the Workshop '71 Theatre Company.
225	Mahfouz, Naguib	1981	Children of Gebelawi.
226	Farah, Nuruddin	1980	Sweet and Sour Milk. (Originally published London: Allison & Busby, 1979.)
227	Emecheta, Buchi	1980	The Joys of Motherhood. (Originally published London: Allison and Busby, 1979.)
228	Hussein, Taha	1981	An Egyptian Childhood: the autobiography of Taha Hussein. Translated by E. H. Paxton.
229	Mofolo, Thomas	1981	Chaka: an historical romance. New translation by Daniel P. Kunene. Originally translated from the Sesuto by F. H. Dutton, London & New York: OUP, 1967.
230	Feinberg, Barry (ed.)	1980	Poets to the People: South African Freedom Poems.
231	Jumbam, Kenjo	1980	White Man of God.
232	Johnson-Davies, Denys (ed.)	1981	Egyptian One-act Plays. Selected and translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies. Includes The interrogation by Farid Kamil, The Trap by Alfred Farag, Marital bliss by Abdel-Moneim Selim, The wheat well by Ali Salem, and The donkey market by Tewfik al-Hakim.
233	Nyamfukudza, S.	1980	The Non-Believer's Journey; 128 pp.
234	Kunene, Mazisi	1981	Anthem of the Decades: a Zulu epic. Translated from Zulu by the author.
235	Kunene, Mazisi	1982	The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain: poems. Translated from Zulu.
236	Mapanje, Jack	1981	Of Chameleons and Gods; 80 pp.
237	Marechera, Dambudzo	1980	Black Sunlight.
238	Peters, Lenrie	1981	Selected Poetry; 160 pp.
239	Kourouma, Ahmadou	1981	The Suns of Independence. Translated from the French Les soleils des independances by Adrian Adams.
240	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	1981	Detained
241	Akare, Thomas	1981	The Slums.
242	Aluko, T. M.	1982	Wrong Ones in the Dock. London: Heinemann.
243	Mutloatse, Mothobi (ed.)	1981	Africa South: contemporary writings.
244	Ya-Otto, John with Ole Gjerstad and Michael Mercer	1982	Battlefront Namibia : an autobiography
245	NEVER ASSIGNED.
246	Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa	1982	I Will Marry When I Want.
247	Head, Bessie	1987	When Rain Clouds Gather
248	Bâ, Mariama	1981	So long a letter. Translated from the French Si longue lettre by Modupé Bodé-Thomas.
249	Obasanjo, Olusegun	1981	My Command: An Account of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970.
250	Ousmane, Sembène	1981	The Last of the Empire.
251	Lewin, Hugh	1981	Bandiet: seven years in a South African prison.
252	Farah, Nuruddin	1982	Sardines. (Originally published London: Allison & Busby, 1981.)
253	Aniebo, I. N. C.	1983	Of Wives, Talismans, and the Dead: short stories. Arranged by Willfred F. Feuser. London; Exeter, N.H.: Heinemann.
254	Scanlon, Paul A. (ed.)	1983	Stories from central and southern Africa. Includes "Beggar my neighbour" by Dan Jacobson, "Kwashiorkor" by Can Themba, "About a girl who met a dimo" by Susheela Curtis, "Hajji Musa and the Hindu fire-walker" by Ahmed Essop, "The sisters" by Pauline Smith, "Tselane and the giant" by B. L. Leshoai, "Johannesburg, Johannesburg" by Nathaniel Nakasa, "Coming of the dry season" by Charles Mungoshi, "A soldier's embrace" by Nadine Gordimer, "Witchcraft" by Bessie Head, "The old woman" by Luis B. Honwana, "Dopper and Papist" by Herman C. Bosman, "The dishonest chief" by Ellis Singano and A. A. Roscoe, "The Soweto bride" by Mbulelo Mzamane, "A sunrise on the veld" by Doris Lessing, "The soldier without an ear" by Paul Zeleza, "Riva" by Richard Rive, "Sunlight in Trebizond Street" by Alan Paton, "The Christmas reunion" by Dambudzo Marechera, "The king of the waters" by A. C. Jordan, "Power" by Jack Cope, and "In corner B" by Es'kia (Zeke) Mphahlele.
255	Iroh, Eddie	1982	The Siren in the Night.
256	Bruner, Charlotte H. (ed.)	1983	Unwinding Threads: writing by women in Africa.
257	Calder, Angus, Jack Mapanje & Cosmo Peterse	1983	Summer Fires: new poetry of Africa.
258	Pheto, Molefe	1985	And Night Fell: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in South Africa. (Originally published London: Allison & Busby, 1983.)
259	NEVER PUBLISHED		"A volume called This is the Time was advertised as No. 259, but no such volume exists in any of the library catalogues we consulted. Research in the AWS archive at Reading University reveals that this was a projected anthology of Central and Southern African poetry, which was instead published as When My Brothers Come Home: Poems from Central and Southern Africa, edited by Frank M. Chipasula (Middleton, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1985)."
260	NEVER PUBLISHED		"Kofi Awoonor's Until the Morning After: Collected Poems 1963-1985 was to have been AWS number 260, but was apparently withdrawn by the author and instead published by Greenfield Review Press, New York, in 1987."
261	Anyidoho, Kofi	1984	A Harvest of our Dreams, with Elegy for the Revolution: poems.
262	Nagenda, John	1986	The Seasons of Thomas Tebo.
263	Serote, Mongane	1983	To Every Birth its Blood.
264	De Graft, Joe	1977	Muntu.
265	NEVER ASSIGNED.
266	p'Bitek, Okot	1984	Song of Lawino: &, Song of Ocol. Translated from the Acholi by Okot p'Bitek. Introduction by G. A. Heron; illustrations by Frank Horle. London: Heinemann.
267	Idrīs, Yūsuf	1984	Rings of Burnished Brass.
268	Sepamia, Sepho	1981	A Ride on the Whirlwind: a novel.
269	Pepetela	1984	Mayombe.
270	Achebe, Chinua & C. L. Innes (eds.)	1985	African short stories. Includes 'The false prophet' by Sembene Ousmane, 'Certain winds from the south' by Ama Ata Aidoo, 'The apprentice' by Odun Balogun, 'The will of Allah' by David Owoyele, 'Civil peace' by Chinua Achebe, 'The gentlemen of the jungle' by Jomo Kenyatta, 'The green leaves' by Grace Ogot, 'Bossy' by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 'The spider's web' by Leonard Kibera, 'Minutes of glory' by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 'An incident in the Ghobashi household' by Alifa Rifaat, 'A handful of dates' by Tayeb Salih, 'A conversation from the third floor' by Mohamed El-Bisatie, 'Papa, snake & I' by B. L. Honwana, 'The bridegroom' by Nadine Gordimer, 'The betrayal' by Ahmed Essop, 'Protista' by Dambudzo Marechera, 'The coffee-cart girl' by Ezekiel Mphahlele, 'Snapshots of a wedding' by Bessie Head, and 'Reflections in a cell' by Mafika Gwala.
unnumbered	Rifaat, Alifa	1985	Distant View of a Minaret.
unnumbered	Amadi, Elechi	1986	Estrangement.
unnumbered	Oguine, Ike	2000	A Squatter's Tale. London: Heinemann.
unnumbered	Echewa, T. Obinkaram	1986	The Crippled Dancer
unnumbered	Lopes, Henri	1987	Tribaliks

See also

• List of African writers
• Writing in Asia Series

External links

• Heinemann - African Writers Series
• "Heinemann African Writers Series" at African Studies Centre, Leiden.
• Jenny Uglow, "BOOKS / A voice out of Africa: A story of sweet success and bitter controversy: the low-profile but high-grade African Writers Series has just celebrated its 30th year", The Independent, 3 January 1993.