Major novels from African writers

Peter Abrahams (South Africa): Mine Boy, This Island Now, A Wreath for Udom Chinua Achebe (Nigeria): Arrow of God, No Longer At Ease, Things Fall Apart Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria): Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun Mohammed Naseehu Ali (Ghana): The Prophet of Zongo Street Elechi Amadi (Nigeria): The Concubine, The Great Ponds, Sunset in Biafra Ayi Kwei Armah (Ghana): The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born Sefi Atta (Nigeria): Everything Good Will Come Ayesha Harruna Attah (Ghana): Harmattan Rain Mariama Ba (Senegal): Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter) Mongo Beti (Cameroon): The Poor Christ of Bomba J.M. Coetzee (South Africa): Disgrace, Life & Times of Michael K Mia Couto (Mozambique): Terra Sonambula (A Sleepwalking Land) Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe): Nervous Conditions Mohammed Dib (Algeria): "La grande maison" Assia Djebar (Algeria): Les Enfants du Nouveau Monde Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria): The Bride Price, The Joys of Motherhood Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa (Nigeria): Ogboju od? ninu igbo irunmal? (The Forest of a Thousand Demons) Nuruddin Farah (Somalia): From a Crooked Rib, Maps, Sweet and Sour Milk Nadine Gordimer (South Africa): Burger's People, The Conservationist, July's People Alex La Guma (South Africa): In the Fog of the Seasons' End, The Stone Country, Time of the Butcherbird, A Walk in the Night Bessie Head (Botswana): When Rain Clouds Gather Moses Isegawa (Uganda) Abyssinian Chronicles Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco): The Sacred Night, he Sand Child, This Blinding Absence of Light Cheikh Hamidou Kane (Senegal): L'Aventure Ambigue Yasmina Khadra (Algeria): The Swallows of Kabul Camara Laye (Guinea): The Radiance of the King Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt): The Beginning and the End, Cairo Trilogy, Children of Gebelawi, Midaq Alley Charles Mangua (Kenya): A Tail in the Mouth Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Nigeria): In Dependence Dambudzo Marechera (Zimbabwe): The House of Hunger Dalene Matthee (South Africa): Kringe in 'n bos (Circles in a Forest) Thomas Mofolo (South Africa/Lesotho): Chaka Meja Mwangi (Kenya): Carcase for Hounds, Going Down River Road, Kill Me Quick Lewis Nkosi (South Africa): Mandela's Ego, Mating Birds, Underground People Nnedi Okorafor (Nigeria): Zahrah the Windseeker Ben Okri (Nigeria): The Famished Road Yambo Ouologuem (Mali): Le Devoir de Violence Alan Paton (South Africa): Cry, The Beloved Country Tayeb Salih (Sudan): "Season of Migration to the North" Benjamin Sehene (Rwanda): Le Feu sous la Soutane (Fire under the Cassock) Ousmane Sembene (Senegal): Xala, The Black Docker (Le Docker Noir), God's Bits of Wood (Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu), The Last of the Empire (Le dernier de l'Empire), Tribal Scars (Voltaique) Wole Soyinka (Nigeria): The Intepreters, Seasons of Anomy, Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya): A Grain of Wheat, Matigari, Petals of Blood, Weep Not, Child, Wizard of the Crow Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe): Butterfly Burning Birhanu Zerihun (Ethiopia): Ye'imba debdabbewoch "Yearful Letters"