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African Writers Series 2015 CATALOGUE NEW African Writers Series 2015 CATALOGUE NEW e-book available e-book available Celebrating over 50 years of excellent storytelling from award-winning African authors 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 Chinua Achebe 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 & West Africa 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 African Literature 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. For additional information about the African Writers Series visit our website at www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/AWS 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 CONTACTS 20 Bessie Head Botswana Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind The Lovers An examination of Serowe’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 South Africa 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. 9780435909611 185pp 9780435909819 109pp 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 dal 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. 9780435905941 144pp 9780435909123 128pp 9780435909239 122pp 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 Ayi Kwei Armah 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 Thomas Mofolo Neshani Andreas Ghana Lesotho 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. 9780435905385 240pp 9780435905309 240pp 9780435905347 160pp No Longer The Trouble Things Fall Apart 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
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