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 Bâ (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 Sonâmbula (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 odẹ ninu igbo irunmalẹ (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, The Sand Child, This Blinding Absence of Light
- Cheikh Hamidou Kane (Senegal): L'Aventure Ambiguë
- 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 Sembène (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 (Voltaïque)
- Wole Soyinka (Nigeria): The Intepreters, Seasons of Anomy,
- Ngũgĩ 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 debdabbéwoch "Yearful Letters"
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