African Authors

Emma Dove Egypt Naguib Mahfouz

Madqau Alley, The Day the Leader Was Killed (Sadat), the Thief and the Dog, Children of Gebelawi

Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street)

Ahmad Abd al-Jawad Family

Amina

Yasin, Fahey, Kamal

Khadiga, Aisha Nigeria Chinua Achebe

Anthills of the Savannah, Home and Exile, Girls at War, Arrow of God, Civil Peace, Man of the People, An Image of Africa, No Longer At Ease

Things Fall Apart (from Yeats Poem)

Igbo Tribe of Umuofia

Okonkwo, Amalinze the Cat, Ikemefuna, Mr, Kiaga, Mr, Brown, Mr. Smith, Nwoye/Isaac

Yams!

Wole Soyinka

Requiem for a Futurologist, Season of Anomie, Madmen and Specialists

The Lion and the Jewel

Baroka- reigning chief of Ilujinle (traditionalist)-lion

Lakunle (progressive)

Court Sidi (Baroka gets her)- Jewel

Death and the King’s Horseman

Elesin, and son Olunde

Simon Pilkings South Africa Alan Paton

Debbie Go Home, Tales from a Trouble Land, Too Late the Phalarope, Ah but Your Lord is Beautiful

Cry the Beloved Country

Ixopo

Stephen Kumale (gets letters to visit Gertrude), son is Alsalom

Arthur Jarvis, father is James Jarvis Other Authors

Athol Fugard

Sizwe Bana is Dead, Hello and Goodbye, Boesman and Lena, the Road to Mecca, BloodKnot

Master Harold and the Boys

Nadine Gordimer

Lying Days, Occasion for Lovery, The House Gun, Beethoven was 1/16 Black, Get a Life, The Conservationist

July’s People, Burgher’s Daughter

J. M. Coetzee

In the Heart of the Country, Dusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians, Foe, Disgrace, The Life and Times of Michael K