Authors

Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania)  Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

• By The Sea 2001
• Admiring Silence,1996

Abraham Verghese (Ethiopia)

• Cutting for Stone 2009

Adam Zameenzad (Pakistan-Kenya-England)

• My Friend Matt and Hena The Whore 1988

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (Nigerian)

• I Do Not Come To You By Chance 2009

Ahmadou Kourouma (Côte d'Ivoire)

• Allah Is Not Obliged 2007

Alexandra Fuller (Zimbabwean-American-British)

• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight 2001
• Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness 2011

Alice Sebold (American)

• Lucky 1999

Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghanaian)

• Changes, A Love Story 1999
• African Love Stories 2006 (African writers)

Amaka Azie (Nigerian)

• Thorns and Roses 2017

Amma Darko (Ghanaian)

• Beyond the Horizon 1995 

Aminatta Forna (British of Sierra Leonean & Scottish heritage)

• The Memory of Love 2010

Amos Tutuola (Nigerian) 1920 - 1997

• The Palm-Wine Drinkard 1952

Aravind Adiga (India)

• The White Tiger 2008

Arundhati Roy (Indian)

• The Gods Of Small Things 1997

Asha Bandele (U.S.A)

• The Prisonner's Wife; A Memoir 1999

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Somalian)

•   Infidel.2007

Ayibu Makolo (Nigerian)

• Madam's Maid & Other Stories 2016

Ayo Oyeku (Nigerian)

• Tears Of The Lonely 2011

Bahaa Taher (Egypt)

• Love in Exile 1995

Ben Okri (Nigerian)

• The Famished Road 1991

Benjamin Kwakye (Ghana)

• The Clothes of Nakedness 1998

Bessie Head (Botswana)  1937 - 1986

• A Question Of Power 1974

Betty Mahmoody (American)

• Not Without My Daughter 1987

Beverly Naidoo (South African)

• No Turning Back 1995

Buchi Emecheta (Nigerian) 1944 - 2017

• The Joys Of Motherhood 1979 
• Second-Class Citizen 1974
• The Bride Prize 1976
• The New Tribe 2000
• Kehinde 1994
• Head Above Water 1986

Cathi Hanauer (American)

• The Bitch In The House 2003

Charlotte H. Bruner

• Unwinding Thread 1994 (Women in Africa)

Chibundu Onuzo (Nigerian)

• The Spider King's Daughter 2012

Chigozie Obioma (Nigerian)

• The Fishermen 2015

Chika Unigwe (Nigerian)

• On Black Sisters's Street 2009
• Better Never than Late 2019

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigerian)

• Half Of A Yellow Sun 2006 
• Purple Hibiscus 2003
• The Thing Around Your Neck 2009
• Americanah 2013

Chinedu Achebe (Nigerian/American)

• Blunted On Reality 2012

Chinelo Okparanta (Nigerian)

• Happiness, Like Water 2013

Chinua Achebe (Nigerian) 1930 - 2013

• Things Fall Apart 1958
• No Longer At Ease 1960 
• Arrow oF God 1965
• The Education of a British-Protected Child 2009
• A Man of the People 1966
• Anthills of the Savannah 1987
• An Image of Africa 2002

Chuma Nwokolo, Jr. (Nigerian)

• Diaries of a Dead African 2003

Chris Abani (Nigerian)

• GraceLand 2004
• Becoming Abigail 2006

Christie Watson (British)

• Tiny Sunbirds Faraway 2011

Colson Whitehead (U.S.A)

• The Underground Railroad 2016

 Dalene Matthee (South African)

• Fiela's Child 1985

Dan Brown (American)

• Angels & Demons 2000
• The Davinci Code 2003

Dawit Gebremichael Habte (Eritrea)

• Gratitude in Low Voices: A Memoir 2017

Dayo Foster (The Gambia)

• Reading The Ceiling 2007

Deborah Rodriguez (American)

• Kabul Beauty School 2007

Diane Brown (South Africa)

• The Sabi 2013

Dinaw Mengestu (Ethiopia)

• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears 2007
• How to Read the Air 2010

Doreen Baigana (Ugandan)

• Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe 2005

E.C Osondu (Nigerian)

• Voice of America 2009
• This House is not For Sale 2016

Elechi Amadi (Nigerian) 1934 - 2016

• The Concubine 1966

Emmanuel Dongala (Repuplic of the Congo)

• Little Boys Come from the Stars 1998

Eric Iruvuzumugabe (Rwandan)

• My Father, Maker Of The Trees 2009

Fadumo Korn (Somalia)

• Born in the Big Rains 2004

 Fauziya Kassindja (Togo)

• Do They Hear You When You Cry 1999

Ferdinand Oyono (Cameroon) 1929 - 2010

• Houseboy 1960

Festus Iyayi (Nigerian) 1947 - 2013

• Heroes 1986

Flora Nwapa (Nigerian) 1931 - 1993

• Never Again 1975 
• Women are Different 1986
• One is Enough 1981

Hameeda Lakho (Pakistan-born Dutch)

• Verbogen Trailes 2000

Harper Lee (American) 1926 - 2016

• To Kill A Mocking Bird 1960

Helene Cooper (Liberian)

• The House at Sugar Beach 2008

Helon Habila (Nigerian)

• Waiting for an Angel. 2003
• Measuring Time 2008
• Oil on Water 2010
• Travellers 2019

Irene Sabatini (Zimbabwe)

• The Boy Next Door 2009

Ishmael Beah (Sierra Leonean) 

• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier 2007

Jasmine Kumalah (Belgian born Sierra Leonean-Togolese-American)

• Holding Demons in Small Jars 2016

J.M Coetzee (South Africa) Nobel Prize in Literature 2003

• Disgrace 1999

J. Nozipo Maraire (Zimbabwe)

•  Zenzele: A Letter For My Daughter 1996

Jill Alexander Essbaum (American)

• Hausfrau 2015

Jo Rees (British)

• Platinum 2008

Joe Khamisi (Kenya)

• The Wretched Africans 2016

John Grisham (American) 

• The Partner 1997

John Steptoe (American)

• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale 1987

Jordi Picoult (American)

• My Sister's Keeper 2004

José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola)

• The Book of Chameleons 2006

Josie Llod & Emilyn Rees (British)

• Come Again 2000

Kachi A. Ozumba (Nigerian)

• The Shadow of a Smile 2009

Karo Oforofuo (Nigerian)

• Susan's Diary: Friday's Experience
• Susan's Diary: The Kidnap Case

Katherine Boo (American)

• Behind The Beautiful Forevers 2012

Ken Saro Wiwa (Nigerian)

• Lemona's Tale 1996
• A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary, 1995

Khaled Hosseini (Afghan-born American)

• Kite Runner 2003
• A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007
• And The Mountains Echoed 2013

Lawrence Darwani (Ghana)

• Grief Child  1991

Lawrence Hill (Canada)

• The Book of Negroes 2007

Legson Kayira (Malawian)

• I Will Try (republished January 2013)

Leila Aboulela (Sudanese)

• Minaret 2005
• Lyrics Alley 2010

Lesly Lokko (Ghanaian and Scotish)

• Sundowners 2003

Lewis Nkosi (South Africa) 1936 - 2010

• Mating Birds 1986

 Lília Momplé (Mozambican)

•  Neighbours: the Story of a Murder 

Lindsey Collen (Mauritian)

• The Rape of Sita 1993

Lola Shoneyin (Nigerian)

• The Secret Lives Of Baba Segi's Wives 2010

Lucy Safo (Ghana)

• Cry a Whisper 1993 

M.G. Vassanji (Kenya)

• The In-Between World of Vikram Lall 1999

Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopian) 

• Beneath the Lion's Gaze, 2010

Manu Herbstein (Ghana / South Africa)

• Ama: A Story Of The Atlantic Slave Trade 2000
• The Boy Who Spat in Sargrenti's Eye 2014

Mariama Bâ (Senegalese) 1929 - 1981

• So Long A letter 1979

Marie Ndiaye (French/Senegalese)

• Three Strong Women 2012

Marilyn Heward Mills (Ghana-Swiss)

• Cloth Girl 2006

Mario Puzo (American) 1920 - 1999

•  The Godfather 1969

Mark Haddon (British)

• The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time 2003

 Mary Karooro Okurut (Uganda)

• The Oficial Wife 1993

Meja Mwangi (Kenya)

• Striving For The Wind 1990

Mohammed Naseehu Ali (Ghana)

• The Prophet of Zongo Street 2005

Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) Nobel Prize in Literature 1988

• Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy #1) 1956
• Palace of Desire (The Cairo Trilogy #2) 1957  

Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond (Ghanaian/American) 

• Powder Necklace 2010

Nawal El Saadawi (Egptian)

• Woman at Point Zero 1975
• Memoirs of a Woman Doctor 2019

Neshani Andreas (Namibia)

• The Purple Violet of Oshaantu, 2001

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (Kenya)

• The River Between, 1965

Noviolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe)

• We Need New Names 2013

Olumide Popoola (Nigerian-German)

• When We Speak of Nothing 2017

Pamela Jooste (South Africa)

• Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter 1997

Patricia Nmukoso Enyi (Nigerian)

• The Prodigal Daughter 2012

Paula Zubiaur (Spanish)

• Gritos Silenciosos 2003

Pede Hollist (Sierra Leone)

• So The Path Does Not Die 2012

Peter Kimani (Kenya)

• Dance of the Jakaranda 2018

Petina Gappah (Zimbabwe)

• An Elegy for Easterly 2009
• The Book of Memory 2015

Rob Spillman (African Writers)

• Gods and Soldiers 2009

Sade Adeniran (Nigeria)

• Imagine This 2007

Sarah Ladipo Manyinka (Anglo-Nigerian)

• In Dependence 2008

Sefi Atta (Nigeria)

• A Bit of Difference 2012

Shimmer Chinodya (Zimbabwe)

• Dew in the Morning 1982

Simi Bedford (Nigerian)

• Yoruba Girl Dancing 1991

Sindiwe Magona (South Africa)

• Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night 1991
• To My Children's Children 1990

Somi Ekhasomhi (Nigeria)

• Always Yours 2012
• Hidden Currents 2013
• Jungle Justice 2012

Stanlake Samkange (Zimbabwe) 1922 - 1988

• The Mourned One 1975

Sue Monk Kidd (American)

• The Secret Lives Of Bees 2002

Sulaiman Adonnia (Eritrean)

• The Consequences of Love 2008

Taiye Selasi (British and American of Ghanaian-Nigerian heritage)

• Ghana Must Go 2013

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko (Zimbabwe)

• The Hangman's Replacement 2013

Teju Cole (Nigerian)

• Every Day is for the Thief 2007
• Known and Strange Things 2016

Thrity Umrigar (Indian-born American)

• The Space Between Us 2006

Tolulope Popoola (Nigerian)

• Nothing Comes Close 2012

Toni Kan (Nigerian)

• Nights of the Creaking Bed 2008

Toni Morrison (American) Nobel Prize in Literature 1993

• The Bluest Eye 1970

Tony D'Souza (American, set in Côte d'Ivoire)

• Whiteman

Uzodinma Iweala (Nigerian)

• Beast of No Nation 2005

They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky 2006 (Sudan)

Uwem Akpan (Nigerian)

• Say You're One of Them 2008

William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer (Malawi)

• The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind 2009

Yaa Gyasi (Ghana)

• Homegoing 2016

Yaba Badoe (Ghana)

• True Murder 2009

Zoë Wicomb (South Africa)

• You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town 1987

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