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Reading Corner: African Writers

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African Writers

* indicates appeal for young adults

Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)*
Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)
Mariama Ba (Senegal)*
Mark Behr (South Africa)
Andre Brink (South Africa)
Akosua Busia (Ghana)
J. M. Coetzee (South Africa)
Emmanuel Dongala (Congo)
Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria)
Lynn Freed (South Africa)
Athol Fugard (South Africa)
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
Bessie Head (South Africa)
Sheila Kohler (South Africa)

Najib Mahfuz (Egypt)
Sindiwe Magona (South Africa)*
Mark Mathabane (South Africa)*
Asgedom Mawi (Eritrea)*
Zakes Mda (South Africa)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya)
Sekai Nzenza (Zimbabwe)
Ben Okri (Nigeria)
Alan Paton (South Africa)
Nawal Saadawi (Egypt)
Ousmane Sembene (Senegal)
Ahdaf Soueif (Egypt)
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
Ken Wiwa (Nigeria)

 

Collections that include the works of African Writers

Branch, William, ed. Crosswinds: An Anthology of Black Dramatists in the Diaspora. 1993. (808.8 CRO).

Busby, Margaret, ed. Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent. 1992. (808.8 DAU).

Harrison, Paul Carter, ed. Totem Voices: Plays from the Black World Repertory. 1989. (812.08 T717).

Larson, Charles, ed. Under African Skies: Modern African Stories. 1997. (SHORT STORIES).

Obradovic, Nadezda, ed. African Rhapsody: Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience. 1994. (SHORT STORIES).

Rochman, Hazel, ed. Somehow Tenderness Survives: Stories of Southern Africa. 1988. (SHORT STORIES).*