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Dib, Mohammed Male Algeria La Grande Maison Éditions du Seuil N/A N/A
Djebar, Assia Female Algeria L´Armour la Fantasia Jean-Claude Lattès N/A N/A
Yacine, Kateb Male Algeria Nedjma Éditions du Seuil N/A N/A
Vieira, José Luandino Male Angola Nos Os do Makulusu Sá da Costa N/A N/A
Andrade, Mario Pinto de Male Angola Origens do Nacionalismo Africano Publicaçoes Dom Quixote N/A N/A
Pepetela Male Angola A Geraçâo da Utopia Publicaçoes Dom Quixote N/A N/A
Hountondji, Paulin J. Male Benin Sur la philosophie africaine [African Philosophy: Myth or Reality] François Maspero Read it N/A
Ki-Zerbo Joseph Male Burkina Faso Historie de l”Afrique Noire: d’Hier à Demain A. Hatier N/A N/A
Béti, Mongo Male Cameroon Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba [The Poor Christ of Bomba] Robert Laffont Read it Buy it
Oyono, Ferdinand Male Cameroon Le Vieux Nêgre et La Médaille [The Old Man and the Medal] Éditions Julliard Read it Buy it
Almeida, Germano Male Cape Verde O Testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo Caminho Read it N/A
U Tam’si, Tchicaya Male Congo Brazzaville Le Mauvais Sang/Feu de Brousse/À Triche-Coeur P. J. Oswald Read it N/A
Tadjo, Veronique Female Côte d’Ivoire Mamy Wata et Le Monstre Nouvelles [Mamy Wata and the Monster] Éditions Ivoiriennes N/A Buy it
Dadié, Bernard Binlin Male Cote d’Ivoire Climbié Éditions Seghers Read it N/A
Kourouma, Ahmadou Male Côte d’Ivoire Les Soleils des Indépendances [The Suns of Independence] Les Presses de l´Université de Montréal Read it Buy it
Labou Tansi, Sony Male Democratic Republic of Congo La Vie et Demie Éditions du Seuil N/A N/A
Mudimbe, V. Y. Male Democratic Republic of Congo The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge Indiana University Press Read it Buy it
Al-Homi, Hayam Abbas Female Egypt Adventures of a Breath Atfalna N/A N/A
Mahfouz, Naguib Male Egypt Al-Thulathiyya: Bayn al-Qasrayn – Qasr al Shawq – al-Sukkariyya [The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk – The Palace of Desire – Sugar Street] Maktabat Misr Read it Buy it
Abnudi, Abd al-Rahman Male Egypt Al Mawt alá al-Asfalt [Death on the Asphalt] Atlas N/A N/A
Al-Ghitani, Gamal Male Egypt Zayni Barakat GEBO Read it N/A
Amin, Samir Male Egypt L’Accumulation à L’Échelle Mondiale: Critique de la Théorie du Sous-Développement [Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment] Éditions Anthropos Read it N/A
El Saadâwi, Nawâl Female Egypt Imra´a ‘ind Nuqtat al-Sifr [Woman at Point Zero] Dâr al-Adâb Read it Buy it
Asare, Meshack Male Ghana Sosu’s Call Sub-Saharan Publishers N/A Buy it
Appiah, Anthony Male Ghana In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture Oxford University Press Read it Buy it
Armah, Ayi Kwei Male Ghana The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born East African Education Publishers Read it Buy it
Casely-Hayford, J.E Male Ghana Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation Frank Cass and Co. Read it N/A
Dorkenoo, Efua Female Color Ghana Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation The Practice and its Prevention Minority Rights Group Read it Buy it
Nkrumah, Kwame Male Ghana Ghana: Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah Nelson Read it Buy it
Aidoo, Ama Ata Female Ghana Anowa Longman Read it Buy it
Laye, Camara Male Guinea L´Enfant Noir Plon Read it Buy it
Monénembo, Tierno Male Guinea Une Attiéké Elgass Éditions du Seuil N/A N/A
Sassine, Williams Male Guinea Le Jeune Homme de Sable Présence Africaine N/A N/A
Cabral, Amilcar Male Guinea Bissau/Cape Verde Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings Monthly Review Press Read it N/A
Chimera, Rocha Male Kenya Kiswahili: Past, Present and Future Horizons Nairobi University Press Read it Buy it
Kenyatta, Jomo Male Kenya Facing Mt Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu Secker and Warburg Read it Buy it
Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi Male Kenya Caitaani Mûtharaba-inî [Devil on a Cross] Heinemann Read it Buy it
Wa Thiong´o, Ngugi Male Kenya A Grain of Wheat Heinemann Read it Buy it
Mofolo, Thomas Male Lesotho Chaka Sesuto Book Depot Read it Buy it
Bâ, Amadou Hampâté Male Mali L´Étrange Destin de Wangrin [The Fortunes of Wangrin] Union Générale d´Éditions Read it Buy it
Ben Jelloun, Tahar Male Morocco La Nuit Sacrée [The Sacred Night] Éditions du Seuil Read it Buy it
Chraïbi, Driss Male Morocco Le Passé Simple Éditions Denoël N/A N/A
Couto, Mia Male Mozambique Terra Sonâmbula [A Sleepwalking Land] Caminho Read it N/A
Craveirinha, José Male Mozambique Karingana ua Karingana Ediçôes 70 Read it N/A
Honwana, Luis Bernardo Male Mozambique Nós Matámos o Caõ Tinhoso [We Killed Mangy-Dog] Editora Ática Read it Buy it
Khosa, Ungulani Ba Ka Male Mozambique Ualalapi Caminho Read it N/A
AchebeChinua Male Nigeria Arrow of God Heinemann Read it Buy it
Achebe, Chinua Male Nigeria Things Fall Apart Heinemann Read it Buy it
Amadiume, Ifi Female Nigeria Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society Zed Books Read it Buy it
Emecheta, Buchi Female Nigeria The Joys of Motherhood Alison & Busby Read it Buy it
Fagunwa, Daniel O. Male Nigeria Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale [The Forest of a Thousand Demons: A Hunter’s Saga] Nelson Read it Buy it
Johnson, Samuel Male Nigeria The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate CSS Ltd. Read it Buy it
Mama, Amina Female Nigeria Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity Routledge N/A N/A
Okigbo, Christopher Male Nigeria Labyrinths Heinemann Read it N/A
Okri, Ben Male Nigeria The Famished Road Jonathan Cape Read it Buy it
Soyinka, Wole Male Nigeria Death and King’s Horseman Eyre Methuen Read it Buy it
Soyinka, Wole Male Nigeria Aké: The Years of Childhood Collings Read it Buy it
Tutuola, Amos Male Nigeria The Palm Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads Town Faber & Faber Read it Buy it
Bâ, Mariama Female Senegal Une Si Longue Lettre [So Long a Letter] Nouvelles Éditions Africaines Read it Buy it
Bugul, Ken Female Senegal Riwan Présence Africaine N/A N/A
Diop, Birago Male Senegal Les Contes d´Amadou Koumba [Tales of Amadou Koumba] Présence Africaine Read it N/A
Diop, Boubacar Boris Male Senegal Murambi: Le Livre des Ossements Stock N/A N/A
Diop, Cheikh Anta Male Senegal Antériorité des Civilisations Nègres: Mythe ou Vérité Historique? [The African Origin of Civilisation: Myth or Reality?] Présence Africaine Read it Buy it
Kane, Cheikh Hamidou Male Senegal L´Aventure Ambiguë [The Ambiguous Adventure] Julliard Read it Buy it
Niane, Djibril Tamsir Male Senegal Soundjata, ou l´Épopée Mandingue [Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali] Présence Africaine Read it Buy it
Sembene, Ousmane Male Senegal Les bouts de bois de Dieu [God’s Bits of Wood] Le Livre Contemporain Read it Buy it
Senghor, Léopold Sédar Male Senegal Oeuvre Poétique Éditions du Seuil Read it Buy it
Sow Fall, Aminata Female Senegal La Grève des Bàttu [The Beggars’ Strike] Nouvelles Éditions Africaines Read it N/A
Cheney-Cocker, Syl Male Sierra Leone The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar Heinemann Read it N/A
Farah, Nuruddin Male Somalia Maps Pan Books Read it N/A
Head, Bessie Female South Africa A Question of Power Davis-Poynter Read it Buy it
Brink, André Male South Africa A Dry White Season W. H. Allen Read it Buy it
Coetzee, J. M. Male South Africa Life and Times of Michael K Ravan Press Read it Buy it
Fugard, Athol Male South Africa The Blood Knot: A Play in Seven Scenes Simondium Read it Buy it
Gordimer, Nadine Female South Africa Burger’s Daughter Jonathan Cape Read it Buy it
Jordan, Archibald Campbell Male South Africa Ingqumbo Yeminyanya [The Wrath of the Ancestors] Lovedale Press Read it Buy it
Joubert, Elsa Female South Africa Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena [The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena] Tafelberg Read it Buy it
Krog, Antjie Female South Africa Country of My Skull Random House Read it Buy it
Magona, Sindiwe Female South Africa Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night David Philip Read it Buy it
Mandela Nelson Male South Africa Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela Little, Brown & Co Read it Buy it
Marais, Eugène Male South Africa Die Siel van die Mier [The Soul of the White Ant] Van Schaik Read it Buy it
Mphahlele, Ezekiel Male South Africa Down Second Avenue Faber & Faber Read it Buy it
Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo Male South Africa Indaba, My Children Blue Crane Books Read it Buy it
Nyembezi, Sibusiso Male South Africa Inkinsela yaseMgungundlovu Shuter and Shooter N/A N/A
Paton, Alan Male South Africa Cry, the Beloved Country Jonathan Cape Read it Buy it
Plaatje, Sol T. Male South Africa Native Life in South Africa P. S. King & Son Read it Buy it
Serote, Mongane Wally Male South Africa Third World Express David Philip Read it N/A
Van Onselen, Charles Male South Africa The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985 James Currey Read it Buy it
Vilakazi, Benedict Male South Africa Amal’ezulu Witwatersrand University Press N/A N/A
Salih, Tayeb Male Sudan Mawsim al-Hijra ila I-Sham_I [Season of Migration to the North] D_r’ al-Awda Read it Buy it
Shaaban, Robert Bin Male Tanzania Utenzi Wa Vita Vya Uhuru, 1939 hata 1945 Oxford University Press N/A N/A
Memmi, Albert Male Tunisia Portrait du Colonisé: Précédé de Portrait du Colonisateur [The Colonizer and the Colonized] Éditions Corréa Read it Buy it
Isegawa, Moses Male Uganda Abessijnse Kronieken [Abyssinian Chronicles] Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij Read it Buy it
Mamdani, Mahmood Male Uganda Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism Princeton University Press Read it Buy it
P´Bitek, Okot Male Uganda Song of Lawino East African Publishing House Read it Buy it
Mungoshi, Charles Male Zimbabwe Stories from a Shona Childhood Baobab Publishers N/A N/A
Vera, Yvonne Female Zimbabwe Butterfly Burning Baobab Books Read it Buy it
Dangarembga, Tsitsi Female Zimbabwe Nervous Conditions Women’s Press Read it Buy it
Hove, Chenjerai Male Zimbabwe Bones Baobab Books Read it Buy it
Marechera, Dambudzo Male Zimbabwe The House of Hunger Heinemann Read it Buy it
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