* indicates non-fiction

Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart

Okri, Ben - The Famished Road

Soyinka, Wole - The Interpreters

Tutuala, Amos - The Palm-Wine Drinkard

Gurnah, Abdulrazak - Paradise

Mwangi, Meja - Going Down River Road, Kill Me Quick

Ngugi , Wa Thiong'o. - Petals Of Blood etc.

Ruheni, Mwangi - The Future Leaders

Vassangi, M.G. - The Book of Secrets

*Biko, Steve - I Write What I Like

Coetzee, J.M. - Life and Times of Michael K., Waiting For The Barbarians

Gordimer, Nadine - None To Accompany Me, July's People

Head, Bessie - The Wind and a Boy - short story

Lessing, Doris - The Grass is Singing

Maraire, J. Nozipo - Zenzele

Modisane, Bloke - Blame me on History

Motsisi, "Kid Playboy" - short story

Mphahlele, E. - Mrs. Plum - short story

*Malan, Rian - My Traitor's Heart

*Mandela, Nelson - No Easy Walk To Freedom

Nakasa, Nat - Mr. Nakasa goes to Harlem

Rush, Norman - Mating, Whites

Themba, Can - The Suit

Mahfouz, Naguib - Midaq Alley

*Iliffe, John - Africans - The History Of A Continent

*Mazuri, Ali - The Africans

*Rigby, P -African Images