African Writers Series

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The very best in African literature!

� Novels, poetry and short stories from Africa� New titles from renowned and award-winning African authors� Featuring introductions by rising stars of African fiction and

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New titles for 2011

� First launched over 50 years ago, the acclaimedAfrican Writers Series is the standard for African literature.

� During this time, the series has been a vehicle forsome of the most important writers Africa hasproduced and has ensured an international voicefor literary masters such as Chinua Achebe.

� Today, the series comprises over 70 titles bynearly 40 writers from 19 different countries,ranging from stories and poetry to biographicalwritings and essays. Included in this are the African Writers Series Classics, a selection of the most critically and widely acclaimed titles from this celebrated series.

Over 50 years of celebrated titlesfrom award-winning African authors!

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New titles for 2011

The LoversAuthor: Bessie HeadThe Lovers collects together Head’s shortfiction of the 1960s and 70s, written mainly inSerowe, Botswana, and depicting the lives andloves of African village people pre- andpost-independence. Anthology favourites, likeher breakthrough ‘The Woman fromAmerica’ and ‘The Prisoner who WoreGlasses’ are included.

978 0 435045 71 5 Now Published

Search Sweet CountryAuthor: B. Kojo LaingSet in 1970s Accra, this inventive and intensefirst novel provides an insight into the aspectsof a Ghanaian society caught in transitionbetween tradition and modernity. Like a skilfulbartender, Kojo Laing has created a headycocktail in Search Sweet Country that will notfail to stimulate the reader’s mind.

978 0 435045 70 8 Publishing August 2011

Woman of theAeroplanesAuthor: B. Kojo LaingKojo Laing’s second novel takes the reader ona fantastic journey filled with unforgettablecharacters and magical places. Thisunforgettable story, alternating between thetwin sister towns of Tukwan in Ghana andLevensvale in Scotland, challenges everyconception of what fiction should or could beabout.978 0 435045 72 2

978 0 435045 72 2 Publishing July 2011

LabyrinthsAuthor: Christopher OkigboThis extraordinary and powerful collection ofinterlinked poems, first published in 1971,showcases Okigbo’s rare talent. Each poemdraws the reader into an arresting world ofmyth and intense contemplation, “a fable ofman’s perennial quest for fulfilment”.

978 0 435045 69 2 Now Published

The Sterile SkyAuthor: E. E. SuleAs the gifted young Murtala comes of age in Kano, violent riots and his family's ownwoes threaten to erase all he holds dear.Stalked by monsters real and imagined,desperate to preserve a sense of self and the future, Murtala hunts for answers in thewreckage of the city – and gives us a uniqueinsight into modern life in northern Nigeria.Mould-breaking in its tackling of religiousconflict, this novel offers a powerful portraitof an African society in shock and transition.

978 0 435045 75 3 Publishing February 2012

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Acclaimed titles from Chinua Achebe…

African Short StoriesChinua Achebe & C. L. Innes (eds.)‘Altogether a pleasure to read. The editors have chosen 20 stories by20 different writers from all over Africa,grouping them geographically intoWest, East, North and SouthernAfrica.’ World Literature Today.

978 0 435905 36 1

A Man of the PeopleA powerful satire that chronicles thecorruption threatening careeristpoliticians.

978 0 435905 34 7

Anthills of the SavannahA story of West African politics,entwined with African legends,folk-tales and proverbs.

978 0 435905 38 5

Arrow of GodA chief priest has rivals in the tribe,in the white government, and evenin his own family and whensurrounded by trouble, he adopts anincreasingly cosmic view of events.

978 0 435905 30 9

ContemporaryAfrican Short StoriesChinua Achebe & C. L. Innes(eds.)This anthology displays the variety,talent and scope of contemporaryAfrican writing. The magical realismof Kojo Laing and Mia Coutocontrasts with the styles ofprizewinning authors NadineGordimer, Ben Okri and MoyezVassanji.

978 0 435905 66 8

No Longer at EaseAchebe uses the ‘fall’ of one man, adescendent of the hero in Things FallApart, to depict the birth of a wholenew age in Nigerian life – one ruledby the most powerful anddisillusioning corruption.

978 0 435913 51 9

The Trouble with NigeriaIn this book Achebe broke silence atthe time of the 1983 Nigerianelections. The style and wit partlycover his deep desperation. Did thismessage have an influence on theleaders of the 1983 New Year’s Evecoup in Nigeria?

978 0 435906 98 6

Things Fall Apart‘…The story is the tragedy ofOkonkwo, an important man in theIgbo tribe in the days when white menwere first appearing on the scene … a very simple but excellent novel’.The Observer

Also available in an extended editionincluding essays, maps, illustrations

978 0 435913 50 2

978 0 435905 25 5(Expanded edition)

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More titles from the acclaimed HeinemannAfrican Writers Series

Mine Boy Peter Abrahams

9780435905620

The Purple Violet ofOshaantu Neshani Andreas

9780435912086

So Long A Letter Mariama Ba

978 0 435913 52 6

The Poor Christ ofBombaMongo Beti

978 0 435900 88 5

I Write What I Like Steve Biko

978 0 435905 98 9

Wantok W. P. B. Botha

978 0 435909 69 7

Changes Ama Ata Aidoo

978 0 435910 14 3

The Girl Who Canand Other Stories Ama Ata Aidoo

978 0 435910 13 6

The ConcubineElechi AmadiIhuoma, a beautiful young widow, has the admiration of the entirecommunity in which she lives, and especially the hunter Ekwueme.However, their passion is fated, and jealousy, a love potion and thecloseness of the spirit world, lift this simple Nigerian tale onto a tragicplane.

978 0 435905 56 9

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Can We Talk and Other Stories Shimmer Chinodya

978 0 435912 05 5

Dew in the Morning Shimmer Chinodya

978 0 435912 06 2

Every Man is a Race Mia Couto

978 0 435909 82 6

Beyond the HorizonAmma Darko

978 0 435909 90 1

Money GaloreAmu Djoleto

978 0 435901 61 5

Strange ManAmu Djoleto

978 0 435900 41 0

Harvest of ThornsShimmer Chinodya

978 0 435905 82 8

The Housemaid Amma Darko

978 0 435910 08 2

Burning Grass Cyprian Ekwensi

978 0 435900 02 1

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The Joys ofMotherhoodBuchi EmechetaNnu Ego is devoted to herchildren, giving them all herlife – with the result that shefinds herself friendless andalone in middle age. A powerful commentary onpolygamy, patriarchy andwomen’s changing roles inurban Nigeria.

978 0 435913 54 0

Second ClassCitizenBuchi EmechetaAdah’s fervoured desire towrite is pitted against thedual forces of an egotisticaland unfeeling husband and a largely indifferent whitesociety.

978 0 435909 91 8

The New TribeBuchi EmechetaA young Nigerian baby isadopted by the vicar of a sleepy English village. The New Tribe tells thestory of Chester’s longsearch for his true identity,and the challenges he faces as a black child in awhite family.

978 0 435912 04 8

Arrows of RainOkey A NdibeWhen a young woman runsinto the sea and drowns,the police investigate thelast man to see her alive,the eccentric vagrant knownas Bukuru. What Bukurureveals illuminates not justan army beyond control butalso how his own tragichistory is intertwined withthe murderous past of thedespotic ruler Isa PallatBello.

978 0 435906 57 3

EfuruFlora NwapaNigerian Flora Nwapa’s first novel plants her storyfirmly in the world ofwomen. Efuru, beautiful and respected, is loved and deserted by twoundistinguished husbands.

978 0 435900 26 7

Equiano’s TravelsOlaudah Equiano and Paul Edwards (ed.)This landmark autobiography - arguably the first by an African writer - documents Equiano’s adventurous life in the 18th century, from childhood enslavement in Eastern Nigeria, to global traveller, to becoming a key member of the abolitionist movement in England.

‘Equiano’s book continues to be relevant well after two centuries not only because it is was competently organised and well written but also because it has behind it a strong personality whose presenceis felt on every page.’Professor Ogude

978 0 435906 00 9

A Squatter’s TaleIke OguineA novel about the pain andcomedy in the lives oftoday’s economic refugees.Obi, a young hopefulNigerian immigrant inAmerica, tells a series ofstories within a story ofhomesickness and living onthe fringes of society, of‘success’ and ‘failure’.

978 0 435906 55 9

The Translator Leila Aboulela A subtle and moving novel which explores love,loss and cross culturaldifference. Leila Aboulela’smelancholic and poeticstory takes the reader on a journey where bigconcepts like the meaningof home, exile and faith areexplored with sensitivity,thoughtfulness and beauty.

978 0 435912 07 9

AmbiguousAdventureChiekh Hamidou Kane Sambo Diallo finds hissituation is ambiguous; while he has becomeestranged from his tribe, his faith and his homelandof Senegal, he is equallyunable to identify with thesoulless materialism he findsin France. Kane's novel, a classic of African letters, is a profound andmeditative study of culturalseparation and its effects.

978 0 435901 19 6

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A Woman Alone Bessie Head

978 0 435906 03 0

Collector of Treasures Bessie Head

978 0 435909 81 9

The Imprisonment ofObatalaObotunde Ijimere

The Enemy Within Steve Jacobs

978 0 435909 98 7

The Clothes ofNakednessBenjamin Kwakye

978 0 435912 01 7

Serowe: Village of theRain WindBessie Head

978 0 435902 73 5

The Cardinals Bessie Head

978 0 435909 67 3

Maru Bessie Head

978 0 435913 58 8

When Rain CloudsGather Bessie Head

978 0 435913 57 1

A Question of PowerBessie Head

978 0 435907 20 4

The Heinemann Bookof South African Short Stories Denis Hirson with Martin Trump (eds.)This anthology features shortstories from South Africa by adiverse range of authors includingNadine Gordimer, Bessie Headand Can Themba. The stories are set between 1945 and 1992and give an insight into SouthAfrica’s history and the realities of life in South Africa during andafter apartheid.

978 0 435906 72 6


978 0 435900 18 2

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The Beautyful Ones areNot Yet Born Ayi Kwei Armah

978 0 435905 40 8

In the Fog of Seasons’ End Alex La Guma

978 0 435909 80 2

The Seven Solitudes ofLorsa Lopez Sony Labou Tanzi & Clive Wake

978 0 435905 94 1

The Grass is Singing Doris Lessing

Mema Daniel Mengara

978 0 435909 23 9

Chaka Thomas Mofolo

978 0 435902 29 2

Neighbours: The Storyof a Murder Lilia Momple

978 0 435912 09 3

Oil Man of ObangeJohn Munonye

No Easy Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela

978 0 435907 82 2

The Chattering Wagtailsof Mikuyu Prison Jack Mapanje

978 0 435911 98 0

Gathering Seaweed:African Prison WritingJack Mapanje (Ed)

978 0 435912 11 6

The House of Hunger Dambudzo Marechera

978 0 435901 31 8

978 0 435895 89 3

978 0 435900 94 6

God’s Bits of Wood Sembene Ousmane

978 0 435909 59 8

Houseboy Ferdinand Oyono

978 0 435905 32 3

Distant View of aMinaret Alifa Rifaat

978 0 435909 12 3

Season of Migration tothe NorthTayeb Salih

978 0 435913 53 3

The Cowrie of Hope Binwell Sinyangwe

978 0 435912 02 4

Poems of Black Africa Wole Soyinka

978 0 435901 71 4

The Old Man and theMedal Ferdinand Oyono

978 0 435900 39 7

The Return of The Water Spirit Perpetela

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The Shadow of Imana Veronique Tadjo

978 0 435910 15 0

A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong’o Set in a Kenyan village, Ngugi’scompelling story addresses love,friendship and betrayal against the dramatic backdrop of rapidhistorical change. Ngugi’s reflectionon a key chapter in Kenya’s past -the period just beforeindependence – explores thequestion of nationalism and the challenges an independentKenya will face.

As the Crow Flies Veronique Tadjo

978 0 435912 03 1 978 0 435913 56 4

Devil on the Cross Ngugi wa Thiong’o

978 0 435908 44 7

The Black Hermit Ngugi wa Thiong’o

978 0 435900 51 9

The River Between Ngugi wa Thiong’o

978 0 435905 48 4

Weep Not, Child Ngugi wa Thiong’o

978 0 435908 30 0

Open Spaces: An Anthology ofContemporary African Women Writers Yvonne Vera (ed.)

978 0 435910 10 5

Smouldering Charcoal Tiyambe Zeleza

978 0 435905 83 5

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