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First launched over 50 years ago, the acclaimed African Or get in touch with your local Writers Series has become a benchmark for African Pearson representative: literature. East and Southern Africa During this time, the series has been the vehicle for some of the most important writers that Africa has produced Dean Erasmus and has ensured an international voice for literary masters Sales Manager such as and Ngugi~ ~ wa Thiong’o. Tel: +27 11 347 0700 Fax: +27 11 315 2757 Today, the series comprises over 70 titles by nearly 40 Email: [email protected] writers from different countries, ranging from stories and poetry to biographical writing and essays. Included in the Francophone, Lusophone series are the African Writers Series Classics, a selection & of the most critically and widely acclaimed titles from this Guillaume Dalmasso celebrated series. Regional Director Tel: +27 21 532 6000 The African Writers Series is suitable for anyone studying Direct: +27 21 532 6048 from the age of 14 and upwards. Fax: +27 21 532 2302 A selection of titles are now available as e-books and Email: [email protected] can be downloaded from www.amazon.com.

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Table of contents

Bessie Head 4

Ferdinand Oyono 6

Véronique Tadjo 7

Sony Labou Tansi 7

9780435912086 9780435913502 Daniel Mengara 7

Ngugi˜ ˜ wa Thiong’o 8

B. Kojo Lang 8

Amma Darko 9

Ama Ata Aidoo 9

Ayi Kwei Armah 9

9780435909239 9780435910105 Lily Mabura 10

Thomas Mofolo 10

Neshani Andreas 10

Tiyambe Zeleza 10

Jack Mapanje 10

Lília Momplé 11

9780435905484 9780435912048 Mia Couto 11

Chinua Achebe 12

Obtunde Ijimere 14

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Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind The Lovers

An examination of ’s recent The Lovers collects together Head’s past – seen through the words and short ction of the 1960s and 70s, memories of the village inhabitants. written mainly in Serowe, Botswana.

9780435902735 280pp 978043545715 184pp

A Question A Woman Alone of Power

A Woman Alone is a collection of Cruel revelations lead Elizabeth, autobiographical writings, sketches and a South African refugee, to drift essays, which covers Bessie Head’s life. in and out of sanity.

9780435906030 144pp 9780435907204 206pp

4 African Writers Series Maru

Margaret Cadmore, an orphaned Masarwa girl, comes to Dilepe to teach, only to discover that in this remote Botswana village her people are treated as outcasts.

“… change the world on the basis of love of mankind.” – Bessie Head

9780435913588 123pp

When Rain A Collector Clouds Gather of Treasures

When a refugee joins forces A sequence of Botswana village tales about with an English farmer, the old ways of life subjects such as the breakdown of family are challenged. life and the position of women in society.

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African Writers Series 5 The Return of the Water Spirit Luis R. Mitras (translator) Angola Winner of Angola’s National Literature Prize In Angola in the late 1980s, a time of war, there are those who feel that the Marxist-orientated elite has allowed itself to be corrupted by nepotism and the worst kind of rampant capitalism. One day, a building in Kinaxixi Square collapses unexpectedly, harming no-one. An ancient African water spirit has returned to reclaim the land.

9780435912109 128pp

The Old Man Houseboy and the Medal

Ferdinand Oyono Ferdinand Oyono Cameroon Cameroon It is with pride that Meka rst hears ‘It is a better guide to French colo- he is to receive a medal. While nial Africa, and to racism, than any waiting for the ceremony, however, non- ction account, whether by an Meka gives way to scepticism. African or a Frenchman.’ The Times Literary Supplement

9780435900397 176pp 9780435905323 128pp

6 African Writers Series The Shadow of Imana As the Crow Flies

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Véronique Tadjo Véronique Tadjo Cote D’Ivoire Cote D’Ivoire

As evidence emerged of the An illicit love affair that turns sour genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the is the starting point in this lyrical outside world reeled in shock. explanation of the human heart.

9780435910150 128pp 9780435912031 112pp

The Seven Solitudes of Distant View Lorsa Lopez of a Minaret Mema

Sony Labou Tansi Alifa Rifaat Tansi Daniel Mengara DRC Egypt Gabon Estina Bronzario leads the A revelation on what it is like Mema is an engaging and women of Nsanga-Norda to be a woman living within a dramatic tale of a woman in protest against corruption traditional Muslim society. stuggling against her and apathy. community.

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African Writers Series 7 Ngugi˜ ˜ wa Thiongo Kenya The Black Devil on the A Grain of Hermit Cross Wheat

Should Remi, the rst of his One of the most powerful A classic novel depicting the Kenyan tribe to go to the univer- critiques of modern Kenya history of colonialsism in Kenya. sity or return to his people? ever written.

9780435900519 196pp 9780435908447 256pp 9780435913564 288pp

The River Between Weep Not, Child An extraordinary story about the effects of the Mau Mau war on the lives of ordinary men and women in Kenya. Two brothers, Kamau, an apprentice carpenter, and Njoroge, a scholar, need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical man, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up.

9780435908300 144pp

The River Between explores life on the makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement.

9780435905484 174pp

8 African Writers Series Beyond the Search Sweet Woman of Horizon Country Aeroplanes

Amma Darko B. Kojo Laing B. Kojo Laing Ghana Ghana Ghana Once a naïve Ghanian village Kojo Laing has created a heady A fantastic journey lled girl, Mara, re ects on her cocktail in this novel that will not with unforgettable characters transformation to a prostitute. fail to stimulate the mind. and magical places.

9780435909901 140pp 9780435045708 368pp 9780435045722 304pp

The Beautyful The Girl Ones Are Not Changes Who Can Yet Born

Ama Ata Aidoo Ama Ata Aidoo Ghana Ghana Ghana A spirited and poignant story With zest and humour, Ama The story of a man who says about Esi, an independent Ata Aidoo brings attention to no to bribery but wins nothing woman who leaves her husband. women’s struggle within society. but scorn for his honesty.

9780435910143 208pp 9780435910136 151pp 9780435905408 192pp

African Writers Series 9 NEW How Shall We The Purple Flower Kill the Bishop Chaka of Oshaantu

Lily Mabura Neshani Andreas Ghana Namibia e-book available A collection of short stories of Thomas Mofolo’s classic novel The story of an unhappy wife diverse characters whose fates of the Zulu hero, Chaka. who refuses to mourn her fascinate and alarm. husband’s death.

9780435075415 104pp 9780435902292 192pp 9780435912086 185pp 9780435152147 (e-book)

The Chattering Smouldering Gathering Wagtails of Charcoal Seaweed Mikuyu Prison

Tiyambe Zeleza Jack Mapanje (Ed.) Jack Mapanje Malawi Malawi Malawi A story of con ict between two An anthology of extracts from A collection of poems borne out economically divided families prison memoirs, letters, poetry of the author’s horri c experience during a turbulent political climate. and interviews. of detention without trial. 9780435905835 192pp 9780435912116 352pp 9780435911980 240pp

10 African Writers Series Neighbours: The Every Man is Story of a Murder a Race

Lília Momplé Mia Couto Mozambique Mozambique

The discovery of a vicious 18 short stories, which look at South African conspiracy to the issues of civil war, petty in ltrate and demobilise of cialdom and corruption in post-colonial Mozambique. post-independence Mozambique.

9780435912093 134pp 9780435909826 118pp

A Cowrie of Hope

A young widow, Nasula, suffers years of economic hardship, dreaming of a better life for her daughter. “… captures the rhythms of a people whose poverty has not diminished their dignity…”

9780435912024 160pp

Binwell Sinyangwe Zambia

African Writers Series 11 Chinua Achebe Nigeria Anthills of A Man of the Savannah Arrow of God the People

A story of West African politics, A chief priest has rivals in the A powerful satire that chronicles but woven into it are African tribe, in the white government, the corruption threatening, legends, folk-tales and proverbs. and even in his own family. careerist politicians.

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No Longer The Trouble at Ease with Nigeria

Available in an extended edition Achebe uses the fall of one In this book, Achebe broke the including essays, maps, illustra- man, a descendent of the hero silence at the time of the 1983 tions and reference material. in Things Fall Apart, to depict Nigerian elections. The style the birth of a whole new age and wit partly cover his deep 9780435913502 184pp in Nigerian life. desperation. 9780435905255 208pp (Expanded version) 9780435913519 168pp 9780435906986 80pp

12 African Writers Series Labyrinths The Sterile Sky The Concubine

Christopher Okigbo E.E. Sule Elechi Amadi Nigeria Nigeria Nigeria e-book available e-book available This extraordinary and powerful As the gifted young Murtala comes Ihuoma, a young widow, has the collection of interlinked poems, of age in Kano, violent riots and admiration of the entire community rst published in 1971, his family’s own woes threaten to in which she lives, and especially showcases Okigbo’s rare talent. erase all that he holds dear... the hunter, Ekwueme.

9780435905385 240pp 9780435045753 286pp 9780435905569 216pp 9780435152154 (e-book) 9780435045753 (e-book) The Joys of Arrows of Rain Motherhood The New Tribe

Okey Ndibe Buchi Emecheta Nigeria Nigeria Nigeria e-book available in 2015 When a young woman runs into Nnu Ego devotes her life to The story of Chester, a black the sea and drowns, the police her children, but nds herself boy growing up in a white investigate the last man to see her friendless and alone in family, searching for his true alive – Bukuru the vagrant.al. middle age. identitiy.

9780435906573 247pp 9780435913540 254pp 9780435912048 144pp

African Writers Series 13 Second Class Equiano’s The Imprisonment Citizen Travels of Obatala

Buchi Emecheta Paul Edwards (Ed.) Obotunde Ijimere Nigeria Nigeria Nigeria Adah’s fervoured desire to write Equiano’s early life in Ibo country, A delightful collection of is pitted against the dual forces as a slave in Southern America Yoruba verse plays. of an egotistical husband and an and his travels as a free man. oppressive society.

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Efuru A Squatter’s Tale

Flora Nwapa Ike Oguine Nigeria Nigeria e-book available in 2015 Flora Nwapa’s rst novel plants her story Obi, a young hopeful Nigerian immigrant rmly in the world of women. Efuru, beautiful in America, tells a series of stories within and respected, is loved and deserted by a story of homesickness and living on the two undistinguished husbands. fringes of society.

9780435900267 288pp 9780435906559 165pp

14 African Writers Series God’s Bits Ambiguous of Wood So Long a Letter Adventure

Sembene Ousmane Mariama Bâ Cheikh Hamidou Kane Senegal Senegal Senegal

A classic African novel set during An intense novel written in The adventures of a the Dakar-Niger railway strike of the form of a letter sent to Senegalese man in France. 1947-8 as seen through the eyes Ramatoulaye, who has recently of the workers. been widowed.

9780435909598 248pp 9780435913526 112pp 9780435901196 240pp

Season of the NEW Migration to The Grub Hunter The Translator the North

Amir Tag Elsir Leila Aboulela Tayeb Salih Sudan Sudan Sudan e-book available She is a translator and he a A beautifully constructed This sharply original novel lecturer, Samaar and Rae live novel set in the Sudan and explores notions on identity and in worlds divided by simple Europe. writing with wit and humour. facts – religion, and race. 9780435134808 248pp 9780435152178 (e-book) 9780435912079 112pp 9780435913533 240pp

African Writers Series 15 In the Fog of the I Write What Season’s End Mine Boy I Like

Alex La Guma Peter Abrahams South Africa South Africa South Africa

The story of those people who First published in 1946, this novel Steve Biko was murdered in his daily risked their lives in the was one of the rst to bring to prison cell. He was only 31, but underground movement against light the suffering of black South his vision had already transformed apartheid. Africans under a cruel regime. South African politics.

9780435909802 192pp 9780435905620 184pp 9780435905989 160pp

The Enemy Within No Easy Walk to Freedom South Africa From his humble beginnings in rural South Africa, Nelson Mandela’s life is a tale of inspiration and courage. This powerful biography provides an in-depth look at Nelson Mandela who grew up in a rural village in South Africa under racist apartheid rule – a regime he ultimately helped overthrow. Steve Jacobs South Africa 9780435907822 192pp Jewish barrister, Jeremy Spielman takes on the case of a black man accused of murder, the circumstances of which threaten to destroy his fragile faith in the emergent nation.

9780435909987 192pp

16 African Writers Series NEW Mindblast House of Hunger Harvest of Thorns

Dambudzo Marechera Dambudzo Marechera Shimmer Chinodya Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Available in 2015 e-book available A powerful collection of These stories deal with the This is a signi cant novel plays, ction, poetry and psychological and social about Zimbabwe’s past and a autobiography. alienation of living in exile. predictor of what lies ahead.

9780435045739 200pp 9780435895983 176pp. 9780435905569 216pp 9780435152147 (e-book) Can We Talk and Dew in the The Grass is Other Stories Morning Singing

Shimmer Chinodya Shimmer Chinodya Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Zimbabwe

Youthful desires for prosperity, A sharply perceived evocation of A classic story of murder set in love and a purpose in life are changing life in rural Zimbabwe Rhodesia. This, Doris Lessing’s undermined by experiences of during the 1960s and 1970s. This rst novel, received wide acclaim humiliation, compromise and is one of Shimmer Chinodya’s rst on its original publication in 1950. failure to communicate.al. novels.

9780435912055 154pp 9780435912062 218pp 9780435901318 256pp

African Writers Series 17 Collections Poems of Contemporary Black Africa African Short Stories

Edited by Edited by Chinua Achebe and CL Innes

This collection includes the work of both established This anthology displays the variety, talent and new poets from the four corners of Africa. and scope of contemporary African writing.

978043590174 378pp 9780435905668 196pp

African Short Stories

Edited by Chinua Achebe and CL Innes

‘Altogether a pleasure to read. The editors have chosen 20 stories by 20 different writers from all over Africa.’

9780435905361 176pp

18 African Writers Series Opening Spaces

Edited by Yvonne Vera

An Anthology of Contemporary African Women’s Writing

Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2000.

A provocative collection of short stories from 15 African writers. They act as witnesses to the dramas of private and public life. Their stories challenge contemporary attitudes and behaviour, leaving no room for complacency.

9780435910105 180pp

South African Short Stories

Edited by Dennis Hirson with Martin Trump The issue of apartheid pervades this signi cant anthology of South African short stories.

9780435906726 248pp

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