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, Acoli, Sesotho, Afrikaans, Luganda and Arabic.[1]
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".[2] 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.[3][4]
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—having recently branched into new work, republishing originally locally released texts, and releasing translated works.
The AWS was relaunched by Pearson Education in 2011.[5][6][7]
List of authors and books in the African Writers Series
Number | Author | Year | Title |
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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, & other stories. Translated from the Portuguese by Dorothy Guedes. |
61 | Umeasiegbu, Rems Nna | 1969 | The Way We Lived: Ibo customs and stories. |
62 | Ogikbo, 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 | Nwanko, 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'tam'si, 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: poems. 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. |
160 | 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. |
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 | Nwanko, Nkem | 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. |
178 | Peteni, R. L. | 1976 | Hill of Fools. |
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. |
186 | Boateng, Yaw M. | 1977 | The Return. |
188 | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | 1977 | Petals of Blood. |
190 | Samkange, Stanlake | 1978 | Year of the Uprising |
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. |
198 | Cabral, Amilcar | 1979 | Unity and Struggle: speeches and writings. Texts selected by the PAIGC; translated from Portuguese by Michael Wolfers. |
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). |
222 | Vieira, José Luandino | 1980 | The Real Life of Domingos Xavier. Translated from the Portuguese by Michael Wolfers. London: Heinemann. |
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. |
210 | Amadi, Elechi | 1978 | The Slave. |
214 | Beti, Mongo | 1980 | Remember Ruben. Translated from the French by Gerald Moore. (Originally published Ibadan: New Horn, 1980.) |
218 | Armah, Ayi Kwei | 1979 | Two Thousand Seasons. London: Heinemann. |
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. |
225 | Mahfouz, Naguib | 1981 | Children of Gebelawi. |
226 | Farah, Nuruddin | 1980 | Sweet and Sour Milk. (Originally published London: Allison & Busby, 1979.) |
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. |
233 | Nyamfukudza, S. | 1980 | The Non-Believer's Journey; 128 pp. |
236 | Mapanje, Jack | 1981 | Of Chameleons and Gods; 80 pp. |
237 | Marechera, Dambudzo | 1980 | Black Sunlight. |
238 | Peters, Lenrie | 1981 | Selected Poetry; 160 pp. |
240 | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | 1981 | Detained |
242 | Aluko, T. M. | 1982 | Wrong Ones in the Dock. London: Heinemann. |
249 | Obasanjo, Olusegun | 1981 | My Command: An Account of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970. |
250 | Ousmane, Sembène | 1981 | The Last of the Empire. |
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. |
258 | Pheto, Molefe | 1985 | And Night Fell: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in South Africa. (Originally published London: Allison & Busby, 1983.) |
262 | Nagenda, John | 1986 | The Seasons of Thomas Tebo. |
264 | De Graft, Joe | 1977 | Muntu. |
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. |
269 | Pepetela | 1984 | Mayombe. |
271 | Rifaat, Alifa | 1983 | Distant View of a Minaret. |
272 | Amadi, Elechi | 1986 | Estrangement. |
273 | Oguine, Ike | 2000 | A Squatter's Tale. London: Heinemann. |
See also
References
- ^ "Heinemann African Writers Series" Archived April 29, 2015, at the Wayback Machine at African Studies Centre, Leiden.
- ^ Akin Ajayi, "Books Blog: Penguin's African Writers Series is stuck in the past", The Guardian, 17 February 2010.
- ^ Currey, James (2008). Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature. Oxford: James Currey. ISBN 978-1-847-01502-0.
- ^ Joseph L. Mbele, "Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature (review)", from Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 46, No. 2, 2009, pp. 425-428. Excerpted at Project Muse.
- ^ "Pearson revives African Writers Series, calls for submissions", Naija Stories, 4 August 2011.
- ^ Nicholas Norbrook, "Publishing Africa Writers Series celebrates 50 years", The Africa Report, 29 February 2012.
- ^ "A celebrated selection of literature from Africa", Pearson.