African Writers

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Author	Title	Country	Category
Achebe, Chinua	Anthills of the Savannah	Nigeria	Fiction
Achebe, Chinua	Arrow of God	Nigeria	Fiction
Achebe, Chinua	No Longer at Ease	Nigeria	Fiction
Achebe, Chinua	Things Fall Apart	Nigeria	Fiction
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi	Americanah	Nigeria	Fiction
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi	Half of a Yellow Sun	Nigeria	Fiction
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi	Purple Hibiscus	Nigeria	Fiction
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi	Infidel	Somalia	Biography
Ba, Mariama	So Long a Letter	Senegal	Fiction
Beah, Ishmael	Radiance of Tomorrow	Sierra Leone	Fiction
Biko, Steve	I Write What I Like	South Africa	Nonfiction
Bok, Francis	Escape from Slavery	Sudan	Biography
Bulawayo, NoViolet	We Need New Names	Zimbabwe	Fiction
Chinodya, Shimmer	Dew in the Morning	Zimbabwe	Fiction
Coetzee, J.M.	Disgrace	South Africa	Fiction
Cole, Teju	Every Day is for the Thief	Nigeria	Fiction
Dangarembga, Tsitsi	Nervous Conditions	Zimbabwe	Fiction
Emecheta, Buchi	Joys of Motherhood	Nigeria	Fiction
Emecheta, Buchi	Second-Class Citizen	Nigeria	Fiction
Kane, Cheikh Hamidou	Ambiguous Adventure	Senegal	Fiction
Mathabane, Miriam	Miriam's Song: A Memoir	South Africa	Biography
Mengara, Daniel	Mema	Gabon	Fiction
Mengestu, Dinaw	All Our Names	Ethiopia	Fiction
Mengestu, Dinaw	Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears	Ethiopia	Fiction
Ndibe, Okey	Foreign Gods, Inc.	Nigeria	Fiction
Niane, D.T.	Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali	Mali	Nonfiction
Ousmane, Sembene	God's Bits of Wood	Nigeria	Fiction
Soyinka, Wole	Ake: The Years of Childhood	Nigeria	Biography
Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa	Petals of Blood	Kenya	Fiction
Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa	Wizard of the Crow	Kenya	Fiction
Tutuola, Amos	My Life in the Bush of Ghosts	Nigeria	Fiction
Tutuola, Amos	Palm-Wine Drinkard	Nigeria	Fiction
Vera, Yvonne	Butterfly Burning	Zimbabwe	Fiction
Vera, Yvonne	Stone Virgins	Zimbabwe	Fiction