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Abani, Chris

Novels

  • The Secret History Of Las Vegas (Penguin, 2014)
  • The Virgin of Flames (Penguin, 2007)
  • GraceLand (FSG, 2004/Picador 2005)
  • Masters of the Board (Delta, 1985)

Novellas

  • Becoming Abigail (Akashic Books, 2006)
  • Song For Night (Akashic Books, 2007)

Poetry

  • There are no names for red (Red Hen Press, 2010)
  • Feed me the sun (Peepal Tree Press, 2010)
  • Sanctificum (Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
  • Hands Washing Water (Copper Canyon Press, 2006)
  • Dog Woman (Red Hen Press, 2004)
  • Daphne’s Lot (Red Hen Press, 2003)
  • Kalakuta Republic (Saqi, 2001).

Essays

Achebe, Chinua

Novels

  • Things Fall Apart (1958)
  • No Longer at Ease (1960)
  • Arrow of God (1964)
  • A Man of the People (1966)
  • Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

Short stories

  • Marriage Is A Private Affair (1952)
  • Dead Men’s Path (1953)
  • The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories (1953)
  • Civil Peace (1971)
  • Girls at War and Other Stories (including “Vengeful Creditor”) (1973)
  • African Short Stories (editor, with C. L. Innes) (1985)
  • The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (editor, with C. L. Innes) (1992)
  • The Voter

Poetry

  • Beware, Soul-Brother, and Other Poems (1971) (published in the US as Christmas at Biafra, and Other Poems, 1973)
  • Don’t Let Him Die: An Anthology of Memorial Poems for Christopher Okigbo (editor, with Dubem Okafor) (1978)
  • Another Africa (1998)
  • Collected Poems Carcanet Press (2005)
  • Refugee Mother And Child
    Vultures

Essays, criticism, non-fiction and political commentary

  • The Novelist as Teacher (1965) – also in Hopes and Impediments
  • An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” (1975) – also in Hopes and Impediments
  • Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975)
  • The Trouble With Nigeria (1984)
  • Hopes and Impediments (1988)
  • Home and Exile (2000)
  • The Education of a British-Protected Child (6 October 2009)
  • There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra (11 October 2012)

Children’s books

  • Chike and the River (1966)
  • How the Leopard Got His Claws (with John Iroaganachi) (1972)
  • The Flute (1975)
  • The Drum (1978)

Addonia, Sulaiman

Novels

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

Books

  • Purple Hibiscus. 2003.
  • Half of a Yellow Sun, 2006,
  • The Thing Around Your Neck, 2009,
  • Americanah, 2013,

Essays Published in Book Format

  • We Should All Be Feminists, 2014,
  • Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, 2017

Aidoo, Ama Ata

Books

  • The Dilemma of a Ghost (play), Longman, 1965
  • Anowa (a play based on a Ghanaian legend), Longman, 1970
  • No Sweetness Here: A Collection of Short Stories, The Feminist Press, 1995
  • Our Sister Killjoy: or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint, Longman, 1977
  • Someone Talking to Sometime (a poetry collection), Harare: College Press, 1986
  • The Eagle and the Chickens and Other Stories (for children), Tana Press, 1986
  • Birds and Other Poems, Harare: College Press, 1987
  • Changes: a Love Story (novel), The Feminist Press, 1993
  • An Angry Letter in January (poems), Dangaroo Press, 1992
  • The Girl Who Can and Other Stories, Heinemann African Writers Series, 1997
  • Diplomatic Pounds & Other Stories, Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2012.

Aidoo, Ama Ata

Books

  • The Purple Violet of Oshaantu (2001)

Angüe, María Nsué

Books

  • Ekomo, 1985 (French|Spanish)

Asante, M.K.

Books

  • Buck: A Memoir (2013)
  • It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop (2008)
  • Beautiful. And Ugly Too (2005)
  • Like Water Running Off My Back (2002)

Atta, Sefi

Novels

  • A Bit of Difference, Interlink Books, 2013
  • Swallow, Interlink Books, 2010
  • Everything Good Will Come, Interlink Books, 2005

Short stories

  • News from Home, Interlink Books, 2010

Baingana, Doreen

Short stories

  • Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe. University of Massachusetts Press. 2005

Children’s Books

  • Gamba the Gecko Wants to Drum. Storymoja Africa, 2010
  • My Fingers are Stuck. Storymoja Africa, 2010

Short Stories

  • “Christianity Killed the Cat”, in Rob Spillman, ed. (2009). Gods and Soldiers: the Penguin anthology of contemporary African writing. Penguin Books
  • “Hunger”, in Seventh Street Alchemy. Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd. 2005

Bambara, Toni

Novels

  • The Salt Eaters. New York: Random House, 1980 (novel)
  • Toni Morrison (editor): Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays and Conversations. New York: Pantheon, 1996. (various)
  • Those Bones Are Not My Child. New York: Pantheon, 1999 (novel)

Short stories

  • Gorilla, My Love. New York: Vintage, 1972 (short stories)
  • War of the Walls 1976, My Love. New York: Random House, 1972 (short stories)
  • The Lesson. New York: Bedford/St.Martin’s, 1972 (short stories)
  • The Sea Birds Are Still Alive: Collected Stories. New York: Random House, 1977 (short stories)

Academic

  • The American Adolescent Apprentice Novel. City College of New York, 1964. 146 pp.
  • Southern Black Utterances Today. Institute of Southern Studies, 1975.
  • What Is It I Think I’m Doing Anyhow. In: J. Sternberg (editor): The Writer on Her Work: Contemporary Women Reflect on Their Art and Their Situation. W.W. Norton, New York 1980, pp. 153–178.
  • Salvation Is the Issue. In: Mari Evans (editor): Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation. Anchor/Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1984, pp. 41–47.

Barnett, LaShona Katrice

Novels

  • I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters on Their Craft, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007
  • Off the Record: Conversations with African American and Brazilian Women Musicians, Scarecrow Press, Incorporated, 2012
  • Jam on the Vine: A Novel. Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. 3 February 2015. 

Short stories

  • “Waltz Me Once Again” (2015)
  • “Broken Shoes For Walking (Wings That Never Fit)” (2014)
  • “Ezekiel Saw the Wheel” (2014)
  • “Graf” (2014)
  • “Road to Wingo” (2013)
  • “Courage, Meine Freundin” (2013)
  • “Ezekiel Saw the Wheel” (2013)
  • “Hen’s Teeth” (2013)
  • “533” (2013)
  • “Dear, dear Shay” (2012)
  • “Callaloo” (2007)

Barry, Angela

Novels

  • Endangered Species and Other Stories. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2002
  • Gorée: Point of Departure. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2010

Short stories

  • “Black Mythologies: The Representation of Black People on British Television” – lead essay in The Black and White Media Book, BBC Publications, Trentham Books, 1988.
  • “Song for Man” in Palmetto Wine, Bermuda Writers’ Collective, 1990.
  • “Where the Remote Bermudas Ride” in An Isle So Long Unknown, Bermuda Writers’ Collective, 1993.
  • “Where the Remote Bermudas Ride” in The Massachusetts Review, 1994.
  • “Pie Jinks2” in The Bermudian magazine, 2002.
  • “Adonde va la lejana Bermudas” in Anales del Caribe, Casa de las Americas, Havana, 2006.
  • “Gorée Revisited” and extract of “Interior Monologue” in The Caribbean Writer, 2005.
  • “Extract from Gorée: Point of Departure”, in BIM: Arts for the 21st Century, 2008.
  • “Interior Monologue” in Humanism and Anthropology, 2010.

Blow, Charles

Novels

Briscoe, Constance

Novels

Brodber, Erna

Novels

Non-Fiction

  • Woodside, Pear Tree Grove P.O. (University of the West Indies Press, 2004)
  • The Second Generation of Freemen in Jamaica, 1907-1944 (University Press of Florida, 2004)
  • The Continent of Black Consciousness: On the History of the African Diaspora from Slavery to the Present (New Beacon Books, 2003)

Brown, Elaine

Novels

Bulawayo, NoViolet

Works

  • Snapshots”, published in New Writing from Africa 2009 (J. M. Coetzee, ed.) 2009
  • “Hitting Budapest”, published in Boston Review[23] and The Caine Prize for African Writing 2011, 2010
  • We Need New Names, 2013

Butler, Octavia

Works

  • Patternmaster (Doubleday 1976; Avon 1979; Warner 1995)
  • Mind of My Mind (Doubleday 1977; Warner 1994)
  • Survivor (Doubleday 1978)
  • Wild Seed (Doubleday 1980; Warner 1988, 2001)
  • Clay’s Ark (St. Martin’s Press 1984; Ace Books 1985; Warner 1996)
  • Seed to Harvest (Grand Central Publishing 2007; omnibus excluding Survivor)
  • Dawn (Warner 1987, 1989, 1997)
  • Adulthood Rites (Warner 1988, 1977)
  • Imago (Warner 1989, 1997)
  • Xenogenesis (Guild America Books 1989; omnibus)
  • Lilith’s Brood (Warner 2000; omnibus)
  • Parable of the Sower (Four Walls, Eight Windows 1993; Women’s Press 1995; Warner 1995, 2000).
  • Parable of the Talents (Seven Stories Press 1998; Quality Paperback Book Club 1999; Women’s Press 2000, 2001; Warner 2000, 2001)
  • Kindred (Doubleday 1979; Beacon Press 1988, 2004)
  • Fledgling (Seven Stories Press 2005; Grand Central Publishing 2007)

Short Stories

  • Bloodchild and Other Stories (Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1995; Seven Stories Press, 1996, 2005; second edition includes “Amnesty” and “The Book of Martha”).
  • Unexpected Stories (2014, includes “A Necessary Being” and “Childfinder”)

Cabral, Amilcar

Novels

  • TBA

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