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African Writers Series

Index African Writers Series

African Writers Series (AWS) is a series of books by African writers that has been published by Heinemann since 1962. [1]

257 relations: A Grain of Wheat, A Man of the People, A Squatter's Tale, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Acholi dialect, Ad Donker, Aelred Stubbs, African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden, Afrikaans, Ahmadou Kourouma, Ahmed Essop, Alan Paton, Alex La Guma, Alf Wannenburgh, Alfred A. Knopf, Alfred Farag, Alfred Hutchinson, Ali Mazrui, Ali Salem, Alifa Rifaat, Allison & Busby, Ama Ata Aidoo, Amílcar Cabral, America, Their America, Amos Tutuola, Amu Djoleto, André Deutsch, Arabic, Archibald Campbell Jordan, Arrow of God, Arthur Maimane, Arthur Nortje, Asare Konadu, Athol Fugard, Aubrey Kachingwe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Éditions Denoël, Bahaa Taher, Bakare Gbadamosi, Bediako Asare, Behind the Rising Sun (novel), Bernard Binlin Dadié, Bessie Head, Black Orpheus (magazine), Bonnie Lubega, Bronisław Malinowski, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Buchi Emecheta, Burning Grass, ..., Camara Laye, Can Themba, Charles Mungoshi, Charlotte H. Bruner, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, Clive Wake, Cosmo Pieterse, Cyprian Ekwensi, Dambudzo Marechera, Dan Jacobson, David Cook (literary critic), David Diop, David Lytton, David Rubadiri, Davidson Nicol, Dennis Brutus, Denys Johnson-Davies, Desmond Stewart, Devil on the Cross, Doris Lessing, Driss Chraïbi, Duro Ladipo, East Africa, Efua Sutherland, Efuru, Eldred D. Jones, Elechi Amadi, Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu, Es'kia Mphahlele, Faber and Faber, Farid Kamil, Fathy Ghanem, Femi Euba, Ferdinand Oyono, Flora Nwapa, Francis Bebey, Francis Selormey, Frank Chipasula, French language, From a Crooked Rib, Gabriel Okara, Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty, Gerald Moore, Gerald Moore (scholar), Gibson Kente, God's Bits of Wood, Grace Ogot, Ham Mukasa, Heinemann (publisher), Hill of Fools, Houseboy (novel), Hugh Lewin, Hutchinson (publisher), I. N. C. Aniebo, Ibrahim Aslan, Ibrahim el-Salahi, Ike Oguine, In the Fog of the Seasons' End, J. P. Clark, Jack Cope, Jack Mapanje, Jagua Nana, James Currey, James Matthews (writer), Jan Knappert, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Jared Angira, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Joe de Graft, John Fowles, John Munonye, John Nagenda, John O. Reed, John Ya-Otto, Jomo Kenyatta, Jonathan Kariara, José Luandino Vieira, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Kenneth Kaunda, Kinsman and Foreman, Kobina Sekyi, Kofi Anyidoho, Kofi Awoonor, Kole Omotosho, Kwame Nkrumah, L'Aventure ambiguë, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Legson Kayira, Len Ortzen, Lenrie Peters, List of African writers by country, Lokotown and Other Stories, Luganda, Luis Bernardo Honwana, Luuanda, Mafika Gwala, Mariama Bâ, Martha Mvungi, Mazisi Kunene, Mbella Sonne Dipoko, Mbulelo Mzamane, Meja Mwangi, Mhudi, Micere Githae Mugo, Miles Lee, Mine Boy (novel), Modikwe Dikobe, Mohamed el-Bisatie, Molefe Pheto, Mongane Wally Serote, Mongo Beti, Mugo Gatheru, Mukotani Rugyendo, Mwangi Ruheni, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz, Nat Nakasa, Nelson Mandela, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Nigerians, Nkem Nwankwo, No Easy Walk to Freedom, No Longer at Ease, Nuruddin Farah, Of Chameleons and Gods, Okot p'Bitek, Olaudah Equiano, Olusegun Obasanjo, One Man, One Matchet, Onuora Nzekwu, Ousmane Sembène, Oxford University Press, Paul Edwards (literary scholar), Pauline Smith, Pearson Education, People of the City, Pepetela, Peter Abrahams, Peter Clarke (artist), Peter K. Palangyo, Portuguese language, Ralph Manheim, Rebeka Njau, Rebel (novel), René Maran, Richard Rive, Robert I. Rotberg, Robert Royston, Robert Serumaga, Ronald Moody, Sahle Sellassie, Season of Migration to the North, Sol Plaatje, Sonallah Ibrahim, Sotho language, South Africa, Stanlake J. W. T. Samkange, Steve Biko, Swahili language, Syl Cheney-Coker, T. M. Aluko, Taban Lo Liyong, Taha Hussein, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Tayeb Salih, The African (Conton novel), The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, The Black Hermit, The Concubine (novel), The Future Leaders, The Grass Is Singing, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, The Interpreters (novel), The Joys of Motherhood, The Money-Order with White Genesis, The Narrow Path, The Old Man and the Medal, The Only Son (novel), The River Between, The Second Round (novel), The Stone-Country, The Wedding of Zein, Things Fall Apart, This Earth, My Brother, Thomas Mofolo, Time of the Butcherbird, Tom Mboya, Trevor LeGassick, Two Thousand Seasons, Ulli Beier, University of Reading, Wand of Noble Wood, Weep Not, Child, West Africa, William Farquhar Conton, Wole Soyinka, Xala (novel), Yahya Taher Abdullah, Yambo Ouologuem, Yoruba language, Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy, Yusuf Idris, Yusuf Sibai, Zambia Shall Be Free, Zulu language. Expand index (207 more) »

A Grain of Wheat

A Grain of Wheat is a novel by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o first published as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers Series.

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A Man of the People

A Man of the People (1966) is the fourth novel by Chinua Achebe.

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A Squatter's Tale

A Squatter's Tale is a 1997 novel by Nigerian author Ike Oguine.

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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 1948 in Zanzibar) is a Tanzanian novelist based in the United Kingdom.

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Acholi dialect

Acholi (also Acoli, Akoli, Acooli, Atscholi, Shuli, Gang, Lwoo, Lwo, Lok Acoli, Dok Acoli) is a Southern Luo dialect spoken by the Acholi people in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader (a region known as Acholiland) in northern Uganda.

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Ad Donker

Adriaan Donker (5 December 1933 – 17 July 2002) was a pioneering South African publisher.

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Aelred Stubbs

Aelred Stubbs (2 August 1923 – 17 October 2004) was an Anglican priest and monk, influential in the campaign against apartheid in South Africa during the 1970s.

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African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde

The African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde, PAIGC) is a political party in Guinea-Bissau.

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Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden

The African Studies Centre (Afrika-Studiecentrum) is an independent scientific institute in the Netherlands that undertakes social-science research on Africa with the aim of promoting a better understanding of historical, current and future social developments in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

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Ahmadou Kourouma

Ahmadou Kourouma (24 November 1927 Boundiali – 11 December 2003 Lyon) was an Ivorian novelist.

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Ahmed Essop

Ahmed Essop was born in 1931 in India but grew up in Johannesburg.

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Alan Paton

Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.

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Alex La Guma

Alex La Guma (20 February 1924 – 11 October 1985) was a South African novelist, leader of the South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) and a defendant in the Treason Trial, whose works helped characterise the movement against the apartheid era in South Africa.

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Alf Wannenburgh

Alfred John Wannenburgh (1936-2010, Cape Town) is a South African author, journalist and political activist of German and Dutch descent.

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Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.

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Alfred Farag

Alfred Farag (14 June 1929 in Zagazig, Egypt – 4 December 2005) was one of the eminent Egyptian playwrights of the post-1952 Revolution period.

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Alfred Hutchinson

Alfred Hutchinson (1924 in Hectorspruit, Transvaal Province, South Africa – 14 October 1972 in Nigeria) was a South African author, teacher and activist.

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Ali Mazrui

Ali Al'amin Mazrui (24 February 1933 – 12 October 2014), was an academic professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations.

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Ali Salem

Ali Salem, also transliterated Ali Salim, (على سالم,; 24 February 1936 – 22 September 2015) was an Egyptian playwright, author, and political commentator known for controversially endorsing cooperation with Israel.

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Alifa Rifaat

Fatimah Rifaat (June 5, 1930 – January 1996), better known by her pen name Alifa Rifaat (أليفة رفعت), was an Egyptian author whose controversial short stories are renowned for their depictions of the dynamics of female sexuality, relationships, and loss in rural Egyptian culture.

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Allison & Busby

Allison & Busby (A & B) is a publishing house based in London established by Clive Allison and Margaret Busby in 1967.

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Ama Ata Aidoo

Ama Ata Aidoo, née Christina Ama Aidoo was born on 23 March 1942 in Saltpond.

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Amílcar Cabral

Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral (–) was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, intellectual, poet, theoretician, revolutionary, political organizer, nationalist and diplomat.

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America, Their America

America, Their America (1964) is a personal journal and travelogue by Nigerian writer J. P. Clark.

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Amos Tutuola

Amos Tutuola (20 June 1920 – 8 June 1997) was a Nigerian writer who wrote books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales.

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Amu Djoleto

Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto (born 22 July 1929) is a Ghanaian writer and educator.

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André Deutsch

André Deutsch CBE (15 November 1917 in Budapest – 11 April 2000 in London) was a British publisher who founded an eponymous publishing company in 1951.

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Arabic

Arabic (العَرَبِيَّة) or (عَرَبِيّ) or) is a Central Semitic language that first emerged in Iron Age northwestern Arabia and is now the lingua franca of the Arab world. It is named after the Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living from Mesopotamia in the east to the Anti-Lebanon mountains in the west, in northwestern Arabia, and in the Sinai peninsula. Arabic is classified as a macrolanguage comprising 30 modern varieties, including its standard form, Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic. As the modern written language, Modern Standard Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities, and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, government, and the media. The two formal varieties are grouped together as Literary Arabic (fuṣḥā), which is the official language of 26 states and the liturgical language of Islam. Modern Standard Arabic largely follows the grammatical standards of Classical Arabic and uses much of the same vocabulary. However, it has discarded some grammatical constructions and vocabulary that no longer have any counterpart in the spoken varieties, and has adopted certain new constructions and vocabulary from the spoken varieties. Much of the new vocabulary is used to denote concepts that have arisen in the post-classical era, especially in modern times. During the Middle Ages, Literary Arabic was a major vehicle of culture in Europe, especially in science, mathematics and philosophy. As a result, many European languages have also borrowed many words from it. Arabic influence, mainly in vocabulary, is seen in European languages, mainly Spanish and to a lesser extent Portuguese, Valencian and Catalan, owing to both the proximity of Christian European and Muslim Arab civilizations and 800 years of Arabic culture and language in the Iberian Peninsula, referred to in Arabic as al-Andalus. Sicilian has about 500 Arabic words as result of Sicily being progressively conquered by Arabs from North Africa, from the mid 9th to mid 10th centuries. Many of these words relate to agriculture and related activities (Hull and Ruffino). Balkan languages, including Greek and Bulgarian, have also acquired a significant number of Arabic words through contact with Ottoman Turkish. Arabic has influenced many languages around the globe throughout its history. Some of the most influenced languages are Persian, Turkish, Spanish, Urdu, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Bosnian, Kazakh, Bengali, Hindi, Malay, Maldivian, Indonesian, Pashto, Punjabi, Tagalog, Sindhi, and Hausa, and some languages in parts of Africa. Conversely, Arabic has borrowed words from other languages, including Greek and Persian in medieval times, and contemporary European languages such as English and French in modern times. Classical Arabic is the liturgical language of 1.8 billion Muslims and Modern Standard Arabic is one of six official languages of the United Nations. All varieties of Arabic combined are spoken by perhaps as many as 422 million speakers (native and non-native) in the Arab world, making it the fifth most spoken language in the world. Arabic is written with the Arabic alphabet, which is an abjad script and is written from right to left, although the spoken varieties are sometimes written in ASCII Latin from left to right with no standardized orthography.

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Archibald Campbell Jordan

Archibald Campbell Mzolisa "A.C." Jordan (30 October 1906 – 20 October 1968) was a novelist, literary historian and intellectual pioneer of African studies in South Africa.

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Arrow of God

Arrow of God is a 1964 novel by Chinua Achebe, his third.

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Arthur Maimane

John Arthur Mogale Maimane (5 October 1932 – 28 June 2005), better known as Arthur Maimane, was a South African journalist and novelist.

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Arthur Nortje

Arthur Kenneth Nortje (16 December 1942 – 11 December 1970) was a South African poet.

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Asare Konadu

Samuel Asare Konadu (18 January 1932 – 1994) was a Ghanaian journalist, novelist and publisher, who also wrote under the pseudonym Kwabena Asare Bediako.

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Athol Fugard

Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard OIS (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in South African English.

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Aubrey Kachingwe

Aubrey Kachingwe (born 1926) is a Malawian novelist and short-story writer.

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Ayi Kwei Armah

Ayi Kwei Armah (born 28 October 1939) is a Ghanaian writer.

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Éditions Denoël

Éditions Denoël is a French publishing house founded in 1930 by the Belgian Robert Denoël and the American Bernard Steele (1902-1979).

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Bahaa Taher

Bahaa Taher (بهاء طاهر) (born 1935 in Cairo, Egypt), sometimes transliterated as Bahaa Tahir, Baha Taher, or Baha Tahir, is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer who writes in Arabic.

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Bakare Gbadamosi

Bakare Gbadamosi (born 1930) is a Yoruba poet, anthropologist and short story writer from Nigeria.

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Bediako Asare

Bediako Asare (born 1930) is an African journalist and author, initially from Ghana.

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Behind the Rising Sun (novel)

Behind the Rising Sun is a 1971 war novel by Nigerian novelist and politician Sebastian Okechukwu Mezu.

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Bernard Binlin Dadié

Bernard Binlin Dadié (born 10 January 1916) is an Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet, and administrator.

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Bessie Head

Bessie Amelia Emery Head, known as Bessie Head (6 July 1937 – 17 April 1986), though born in South Africa, is usually considered Botswana's most influential writer.

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Black Orpheus (magazine)

Black Orpheus was a Nigeria-based literary journal founded in 1957 by German expatriate editor and scholar Ulli Beier that has been described as "a powerful catalyst for artistic awakening throughout West Africa".

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Bonnie Lubega

Bonnie Lubega, is a Ugandan novelist, a fiction writer and a lexicographer.

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Bronisław Malinowski

Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish-British anthropologist, often considered one of the most important 20th-century anthropologists.

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Bruce Onobrakpeya

Bruce Obomeyoma Onobrakpeya (born 30 August 1932) is a Nigerian printmaker, painter and sculptor.

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Buchi Emecheta

Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta OBE, was born on 21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017.

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Burning Grass

Burning Grass is a novel by Nigerian author Cyprian Ekwensi, first published in 1962 as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series.

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Camara Laye

Camara Laye (January 1, 1928 – February 4, 1980) was an African writer from Guinea.

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Can Themba

Daniel Canodoce "Can" Themba (21 June 1924 – 1968) was a South African short-story writer.

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Charles Mungoshi

Charles Lovemore Mungoshi (born 2 December 1947) is a writer from Zimbabwe.

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Charlotte H. Bruner

Charlotte H. Bruner (1917–1999) was an American scholar who was one of the first in the United States to write extensively about, and translate the work of, African women writers.

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Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Cheikh Hamidou Kane (born 2 April 1928 in Matam) is a Senegalese writer best known for his prize-winning novel L'Aventure ambiguë (Ambiguous Adventure), about the interactions of western and African cultures.

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Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.

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Christopher Okigbo

Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo (16 August 1932 – 1967) was a Nigerian poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra.

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Clive Wake

Clive Wake is a critic, editor and translator of modern African and French literature.

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Cosmo Pieterse

Cosmo George Leipoldt Pieterse (born 1930 in Windhoek, Namibia) is a South African playwright, actor, poet, literary critic and anthologist.

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Cyprian Ekwensi

Cyprian Ekwensi MFR (26 September 1921 – 4 November 2007) was a Nigerian author of novels, short stories, and children's books.

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Dambudzo Marechera

Dambudzo Marechera (4 June 1952 – 18 August 1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet.

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Dan Jacobson

Dan Jacobson (7 March 1929 – 12 June 2014) was a South African novelist, short story writer, critic and essayist.

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David Cook (literary critic)

David Cook (1929 – 30 March 2003) was a British academic, literary critic and anthologist.

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David Diop

David Mandessi Diop (July 9, 1927 – August 29, 1960) was one of the most promising French West African poets known for his contribution to the Négritude literary movement.

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David Lytton

David Lytton (21 April 1948 – 11 or 12 December 2015), formerly known as David Keith Lautenberg and after the discovery of his body by the placeholder name Neil Dovestone, was a previously unidentified man found dead on Saddleworth Moor, in the South Pennines of Northern England on 12 December 2015.

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David Rubadiri

James David Rubadiri (born 19 July 1930 in Liuli) is a Malawian diplomat, academic and poet, playwright and novelist.

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Davidson Nicol

Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol or Abioseh Nicol (14 September 1924 – 20 September 1994) was a Sierra Leonean academic, diplomat, physician, writer and poet.

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Dennis Brutus

Dennis Vincent Brutus (28 November 1924 – 26 December 2009) was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have South Africa banned from the Olympic Games due to its controversial racial policy of apartheid.

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Denys Johnson-Davies

Denys Johnson-Davies (Arabic: دنيس جونسون ديڤيز) (also known as Abdul Wadud) was an eminent Arabic-to-English literary translator who translated, inter alia, several works by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, Sudanese author Tayeb Salih, Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish and Syrian author Zakaria Tamer.

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Desmond Stewart

Robert Desmond Stewart (born 1949), known as Dessie Stewart, is a former unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

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Devil on the Cross

Devil on the Cross is 1980 Gikuyu language novel (orig. title Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ) by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, which was later republished as part of the influential African Writers Series in 1982.

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Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing (22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer.

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Driss Chraïbi

Driss Chraïbi (July 15, 1926, El Jadida – April 1, 2007, Drôme, France) was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often semi-autobiographical.

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Duro Ladipo

Duro Ladipọ (1931–1978) was one of the best known and critically acclaimed Yoruba dramatists who emerged from postcolonial Africa.

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East Africa

East Africa or Eastern Africa is the eastern region of the African continent, variably defined by geography.

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Efua Sutherland

Efua Theodora Sutherland (27 June 1924 – 21 January 1996) was a Ghanaian playwright, director, dramatist, children's author, poet, educationalist, researcher, child advocate, and cultural activist.

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Efuru

Efuru is a novel by Flora Nwapa which was published in 1966 as number 26 in Heinemann's African Writers Series, making it the first book written by a Nigerian woman to be published.

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Eldred D. Jones

Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones (born 6 January 1925)Africa Who's Who, London: Africa Journal for Africa Books Ltd, 1981, p. 537.

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Elechi Amadi

Elechi Amadi (12 May 1934 – 29 June 2016) was a former member of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

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Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu

Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu (31 August 1938 – 31 October 1979) was a Ugandan poet and dramatist.

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Es'kia Mphahlele

Es'kia Mphahlele (17 December 1919 – 27 October 2008) was a South African writer, educationist, artist and activist celebrated as the Father of African Humanism and one of the founding figures of modern African literature.

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Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the United Kingdom.

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Farid Kamil

Dato' Farid Kamil Bin Dato' Dr.

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Fathy Ghanem

Fathi Ghanem (Arabic: فتحي غانم) is an Egyptian writer (2 March 1924 – 24 February 1999).

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Femi Euba

Femi Euba (born April 1941, Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian actor, writer and dramatist, who has published numerous works of drama, theory and fiction.

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Ferdinand Oyono

Ferdinand Léopold Oyono (14 September 1929 – 10 June 2010, Jeune Afrique, 10 June 2010.) was a diplomat, politician and author from Cameroon.

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Flora Nwapa

Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993) was a Nigerian author who has been called the mother of modern African literature.

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Francis Bebey

Francis Bebey (15 July 1929 in Douala, Cameroon – 28 May 2001 in Paris, France) was a Cameroonian artist, musician, poet and writer.

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Francis Selormey

Francis Selormey (15 April 1927 – 1983) was a Ghanaian novelist, teacher, scriptwriter and sports administrator.

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Frank Chipasula

Frank Mkalawile Chipasula (born 16 October 1949) is a Malawian writer, editor and university professor, "easily one of the best of the known writers in the discourse of Malawian letters".

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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From a Crooked Rib

From a Crooked Rib is the first published novel by Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah.

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Gabriel Okara

Gabriel Imomotimi Okara (born 24 April 1921) is a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bumoundi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty

Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty (born 1916) is a Ghanaian poet and writer.

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Gerald Moore

Gerald Moore CBE (30 July 1899 – 13 March 1987) was an English classical pianist best known for his career as an accompanist for many famous musicians.

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Gerald Moore (scholar)

Gerald Moore (born 1924) is an independent scholar living in Worthing, England.

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Gibson Kente

Gibson Mthuthuzeli Kente (23 July 1932 Duncan Village, Eastern Cape – 7 November 2014, Soweto, Johannesburg) was a South African playwright, composer, director and producer based in Soweto.

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God's Bits of Wood

God's Bits of Wood is a 1960 novel by the Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène that concerns a railroad strike in colonial Senegal of the 1940s.

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Grace Ogot

Grace Emily Ogot (née Akinyi; 15 May 1930 – 18 March 2015) was a Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat.

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Ham Mukasa

Ham Mukasa (c. 1870–1956) was a page in the court of Mutesa I of Buganda (in present-day Uganda) and later secretary to Apolo Kagwa.

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Heinemann (publisher)

Heinemann is a publisher of professional resources and a provider of educational services established in 1978 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a U.S. subsidiary of Heinemann UK.

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Hill of Fools

Hill of Fools is a 1976 English-language novel by Xhosa novelist R. L. Peteni.

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Houseboy (novel)

Houseboy is a novel in the form of a diary written by Ferdinand Oyono, first published in 1956 by in French as Une vie de boy (Paris: René Julliard) and translated into English in 1966 by John Reed for Heinemann's African Writers Series.

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Hugh Lewin

Hugh Lewin (born in 1939) is a South African anti-apartheid activist and writer.

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Hutchinson (publisher)

Hutchinson began as Hutchinson & Co.

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I. N. C. Aniebo

Ifeanyichukwu Ndubuisi Chikezie Aniebo, commonly known as I. N. C. Aniebo (born 31 March 1939), is a Nigerian novelist and short story writer,Simon Gikandi, "Aniebo, I. N. C.", in Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature.

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Ibrahim Aslan

Ibrahim Aslan (1935 – 7 January 2012) (Arabic: إبراهيم أصلان) was an Egyptian novelist and short story writer.

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Ibrahim el-Salahi

Ibrahim El-Salahi (born 5 September 1930) is a Sudanese artist painter and former politician and diplomat.

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Ike Oguine

Ike Oguine is a writer and lawyer from Nigeria.

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In the Fog of the Seasons' End

In the Fog of the Seasons' End is a 1972 novel by South African novelist Alex La Guma.

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J. P. Clark

John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo (born 6 April 1935) is a Nigerian poet and playwright, who has also published as J. P. Clark and John Pepper Clark.

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Jack Cope

Robert Knox ″Jack″ Cope (3 June 1913 – 1 May 1991) was a South African novelist, short story writer, poet and editor.

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Jack Mapanje

Jack Mapanje (born 25 March 1944), ProQuest Learning: Literature.

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Jagua Nana

Jagua Nana is a 1961 novel by Nigerian novelist Cyprian Ekwensi.

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James Currey

James Currey is an academic publisher specialising on Africa.

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James Matthews (writer)

James Matthews (born 29 May 1929) is a South African poet, writer and publisher.

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Jan Knappert

Dr.

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Jaramogi Oginga Odinga

Jaramogi Ajuma Oginga Odinga (October 1911 – 20 January 1994) was a Luo chieftain who became a prominent figure in Kenya's struggle for independence.

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Jared Angira

Jared Angira (born 21 November 1947) is a Kenyan poet.

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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (4 March 1901 or 1903 – 22 June 1937), born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar.

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Joe de Graft

Joseph Coleman de Graft, known as Joe de Graft (2 April 1924 – 1 November 1978), was a prominent Ghanaian writer, playwright and dramatist, who was appointed the first director of the Ghana Drama Studio in 1962.

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John Fowles

John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism.

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John Munonye

John Munonye (April 1929 – 10 May 1999), Encyclopædia Britannica.

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John Nagenda

John Nagenda (born 25 April 1938, in Gahim, Ruanda-Urundi (Rwanda and Burundi)) is a former cricketer who played one One Day International in the 1975 World Cup for East Africa.

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John O. Reed

John O. Reed (1929 London - 2012 Manchester) was an anthologist and translator of African literature.

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John Ya-Otto

John Ya-Otto (10 February 1938 - 25 May 1994) was a Namibian trade unionist, politician, author and diplomat.

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Jomo Kenyatta

Jomo Kenyatta (– 22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978.

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Jonathan Kariara

Jonathan Kariara (1935–1993) was a Kenyan poet who wrote works including "A Leopard Lives in a Muu Tree".

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José Luandino Vieira

José Luandino Vieira (born José Vieira Mateus da Graça on 4 May 1935) is an Angolan writer of short fiction and novels.

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Ken Saro-Wiwa

Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize.

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Kenneth Kaunda

Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda (born 28 April 1924), also known as KK, is a Zambian former politician who served as the first President of Zambia from 1964 to 1991.

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Kinsman and Foreman

Kinsman and Foreman is a 1966 social novel by Nigerian novelist T. M. Aluko.

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Kobina Sekyi

William Esuman-Gwira Sekyi, better known as Kobina Sekyi (1 November 1892, Cape Coast – 1956) was a nationalist lawyer, politician and writer in the Gold Coast.

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Kofi Anyidoho

Kofi Anyidoho (born 25 July 1947), ProQuest Biographies, 2006.

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Kofi Awoonor

Kofi Awoonor (born George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams; 1935 – 21 September 2013) was a Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization.

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Kole Omotosho

Bankole Ajibabi Omotosho (born 21 April 1943), also known as Kole Omotoso, is a Nigerian writer and intellectual best known for his works of fiction and in South Africa as the "Yebo Gogo man" in adverts for the telecommunications company Vodacom.

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Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah PC (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary.

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L'Aventure ambiguë

L'Aventure ambiguë is a novel by Senegalese author Cheikh Hamidou Kane, first published in 1961, about the interactions of western and African cultures.

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Léopold Sédar Senghor

Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal (1960–80).

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Legson Kayira

Legson Didimu Kayira (Neither the year nor the date of Kayira's birth were recorded with precision. He himself chose to celebrate 10 May 1942 as his birthday. – 14 October 2012) was a Malawian novelist.

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Len Ortzen

Len Ortzen was an English writer and translator from French.

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Lenrie Peters

Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters (1 September 1932 – 28 May 2009) was a Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationist.

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List of African writers by country

This is a list of prominent and notable writers from Africa.

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Lokotown and Other Stories

Lokotown and Other Stories is a collection of nine short stories by Nigerian author Cyprian Ekwensi, published in 1966 as the 19th volume in the African Writers Series.

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Luganda

Luganda, or Ganda (Oluganda), is one of the major languages in Uganda and is spoken by more than five million Baganda and other people principally in central Uganda, including the capital Kampala of Uganda.

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Luis Bernardo Honwana

Luís Bernado Honwana (born 1942) is a Mozambican author.

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Luuanda

Luuanda is a book by the Angolan writer José Luandino Vieira published in 1963 by Edições 70 in Lisbon, Portugal; an English translation by Tamara L. Bender was published by Heinemann (African Writers Series no. 222) in 1980.

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Mafika Gwala

Mafika Pascal Gwala (5 October 1946 – 5 September 2014) was a contemporary South African poet and editor, writing in English and Zulu.

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Mariama Bâ

Mariama Bâ (April 17, 1929 – August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, who wrote in French.

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Martha Mvungi

Martha Mvungi, née Martha V. Mlangala is a Tanzanian writer in both Swahili and English.

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Mazisi Kunene

Mazisi (Raymond) Kunene (12 May 1930 – 11 August 2006) was a South African poet best known for his poem Emperor Shaka the Great.

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Mbella Sonne Dipoko

Mbella Sonne Dipoko (1936 in Douala – December 5, 2009 in Tiko) was a novelist, poet and painter from Cameroon.

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Mbulelo Mzamane

Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane (28 July 1948 – 16 February 2014) was a South African author, poet, and academic.

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Meja Mwangi

Meja Mwangi (born 27 December 1948) is one of Kenya's leading novelists.

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Mhudi

Mhudi is a South African novel by Sol Plaatje first published in 1930, and one of the first published African novels and the first novel by a black African to be published in English.

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Micere Githae Mugo

Micere Githae Mugo (born Madeleine Micere Githae in 1942) is a playwright, author, activist, instructor and poet from Kenya.

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Miles Lee

Miles Allday Lee, later Miles Ahmed Lee, FRSA (died June 1986) was a British puppeteer and radio producer.

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Mine Boy (novel)

Mine Boy is a 1946 novel by South African novelist Peter Abrahams.

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Modikwe Dikobe

Modikwe Dikobe (pseudonym of Marks Rammitloa, born 1913) was a novelist, poet, trade unionist and squatter leader in Johannesburg, South Africa in the 1940s.

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Mohamed el-Bisatie

Mohamed el-Bisatie (Arabic: محمد البساطي) (November 1937 – 14 July 2012) was an Egyptian novelist and short story writer.

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Molefe Pheto

Molefe Pheto (born 1935) is a former South African musician and music teacher who, as an activist in the Black Consciousness Movement, became a political prisoner in 1975.

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Mongane Wally Serote

Mongane Wally Serote (born 8 May 1944) is a South African poet and writer.

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Mongo Beti

Alexandre Biyidi Awala (30 June 1932 – 8 October 2001), known as Mongo Beti or Eza Boto, was a Cameroonian writer.

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Mugo Gatheru

R.

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Mukotani Rugyendo

Mukotani Rugyendo (born Kigezi, 1949) is a Ugandan poet, writer and journalist probably best known for his poem "My Husband Has Gone".

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Mwangi Ruheni

Mwangi Ruheni is the pseudonym of Kenyan novelist Nicholas Muraguri (b. 1934) best known for his novels The Minister's Daughter (1975) and The Future Leaders (1973) which were published as part of the African Writers Series.

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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz (نجيب محفوظ,; December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Nat Nakasa

Nathaniel Ndazana Nakasa (12 May 1937 – 14 July 1965) better known as Nat Nakasa was a South African journalist and short story writer.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born 5 January 1938) is a Kenyan writer, formerly working in English and now working in Gikuyu.

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Nigerians

Nigerians or Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria.

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Nkem Nwankwo

Nkem Nwankwo (12 June 1936 – 12 June 2001) was a Nigerian novelist and poet.

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No Easy Walk to Freedom

No Easy Walk to Freedom is a 1986 studio album by American folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary.

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No Longer at Ease

No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.

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Nuruddin Farah

Nuruddin Farah (Nuuradiin Faarax, نورالدين فارح) (born 24 November 1945) is a Somali novelist.

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Of Chameleons and Gods

Of Chameleons and Gods is the title of the first collection of poetry by Malawian poet Jack Mapanje, published in 1981 in the United Kingdom, in Heinemann's African Writers Series.

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Okot p'Bitek

Okot p'Bitek (7 June 1931 – 20 July 1982) was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be westernised.

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Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist from the Igbo region of what is today southeastern Nigeria according to his memoir, or from South Carolina according to other sources.

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Olusegun Obasanjo

Chief Olusegun Mathew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo, GCFR, Ph.D. (Olúṣẹ́gun Ọbásanjọ́; born 5 May 1937) is a former Nigerian Army general who was President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007.

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One Man, One Matchet

One Man, One Matchet is Nigeriann author T. M. Aluko, published in 1964 as the 11th book in the Heinemann African Writers Series.

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Onuora Nzekwu

Onuora Nzekwu, also known as Joseph Onuora Nzekwu (19 February 1928 – 21 April 2017) was a Nigerian professor, writer and editor from the Igbo people.

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Ousmane Sembène

Ousmane Sembène (1 January 1923 – 9 June 2007), often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Paul Edwards (literary scholar)

Paul Geoffrey Edwards (31 July 1926 – 10 May 1992) was a wide-ranging literary scholar at the University of Edinburgh, appreciated for his "adventurous and unorthodox teaching".

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Pauline Smith

Pauline Janet Smith (2 April 1882 – 29 January 1959) was a South African novelist.

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Pearson Education

Pearson Education (see also Pearson PLC) is a British-owned education publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations, as well as directly to students.

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People of the City

People of the City is the debut novel of Cyprian Ekwensi first published in 1954 as part of the influential African Writers Series.

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Pepetela

Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (born 1941) is a major Angolan writer of fiction.

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Peter Abrahams

Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (3 March 1919 – 18 January 2017), commonly known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born novelist, journalist and political commentator who in 1956 settled in Jamaica, where he lived for the rest of his life.

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Peter Clarke (artist)

Peter Clarke (2 June 1929 in Simon's Town, South Africa – 13 April 2014 in Ocean View, Cape Town) was a South African visual artist working across a broad spectrum of media.

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Peter K. Palangyo

Peter K. Palangyo (1939 - 18 January 1993) was a Tanzanian novelist and diplomat.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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Ralph Manheim

Ralph Frederick Manheim (April 4, 1907 – September 26, 1992) was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian.

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Rebeka Njau

Rebeka Njau (born 1932) is a Kenyan educator, writer and textile artist.

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Rebel (novel)

Rebel (1969), by Bediako Asare, is a novel about the conflict between tradition and modernity in Africa.

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René Maran

René Maran (Fort-de-France, Martinique, 8 November 1887 – 9 May 1960) was a French Guyanese poet and novelist, and the first black writer to win the French Prix Goncourt (in 1921).

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Richard Rive

Richard Moore Rive (1 March 1931 – 4 June 1989) was a South African writer and academic, who was from Cape Town.

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Robert I. Rotberg

Robert Irwin Rotberg (born April 11, 1935) is an American who served as President of the World Peace Foundation (1993–2010).

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Robert Royston

Robert N. Royston (1918 – September 19, 2008) was one of America's most distinguished landscape architects, based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the United States.

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Robert Serumaga

Robert Bellarmino Serumaga (1939 – September 1980) was a Ugandan playwright.

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Ronald Moody

Ronald Moody (12 August 1900 – 6 February 1984) was a Jamaican-born sculptor, specialising in wood carvings.

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Sahle Sellassie

Berhane Mariam Sahle Sellassie (Amharic: በርሃነ ማርአም ሳህለ ሰልላስሴ; born 1936) is an Ethiopian author who has written in three languages: Gurage, English, and Amharic.

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Season of Migration to the North

Season of Migration to the North (موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال) is a classic post-colonial Sudanese novel by the novelist Tayeb Salih.

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Sol Plaatje

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (9 October 1876 – 19 June 1932) was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer.

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Sonallah Ibrahim

Son'allah Ibrahim (صنع الله إبراهيم Ṣunʻ Allāh Ibrāhīm) (born 1937) is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer and one of the "Sixties Generation" who is known for his leftist and nationalist views which are expressed rather directly in his work.

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Sotho language

Sotho (Sesotho; also known as Southern Sotho, or Southern Sesotho, Historically also Suto, or Suthu, Souto, Sisutho, Sutu, or Sesutu, according to the pronunciation of the name.) is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana (S.30) group, spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages, and in Lesotho, where it is the national language.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Stanlake J. W. T. Samkange

Stanlake John William Thompson Samkange (1922–1988) was a Zimbabwean historiographer, educationist, journalist, author, and African nationalist.

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Steve Biko

Bantu Stephen Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.

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Swahili language

Swahili, also known as Kiswahili (translation: coast language), is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people.

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Syl Cheney-Coker

Syl Cheney-Coker (born 28 June 1945)R.

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T. M. Aluko

Timothy Mofolorunso "T.

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Taban Lo Liyong

Taban Lo Liyong (born 1939) is one of Africa's well-known poets and writers of fiction and literary criticism.

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Taha Hussein

Taha Hussein (November 15, 1889 – October 28, 1973) was one of the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a figurehead for The Egyptian Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Tawfiq al-Hakim

Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) (توفيق الحكيم Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm) was a prominent Egyptian writer and visionary.

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Tayeb Salih

Tayeb Salih (الطيب صالح; 12 July 1929 – 18 February 2009) was a Sudanese writer.

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The African (Conton novel)

The African is the 1964 debut novel by Sierra Leonean novelist and educator William Farquhar Conton.

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The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the debut novel by Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah.

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The Black Hermit

The Black Hermit was the first play by the Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, and the first published East African play in English.

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The Concubine (novel)

The Concubine is the debut novel by Nigerian writer Elechi Amadi originally published in 1966 as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series.

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The Future Leaders

The Future Leaders is a 1973 novel by Kenyan novelist Mwangi Ruheni.

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The Grass Is Singing

The Grass Is Singing is the first novel, published in 1950, by British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing.

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, at project Gutenberg.

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The Interpreters (novel)

The Interpreters is a novel by Wole Soyinka, first published in London in 1965 and later republished as part of the influential African Writers Series.

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The Joys of Motherhood

The Joys of Motherhood is a novel written by Buchi Emecheta.

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The Money-Order with White Genesis

The money-order with White genesis (Le mandat, précédé de Vehi-Ciosane) is a book containing two novellas by Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène, first published in French in 1966.

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The Narrow Path

The Narrow Path is a 1966 autobiographical novel by Ghanaian novelist Francis Selormey.

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The Old Man and the Medal

The Old Man and the Medal (Le vieux nègre et la médaille) is a 1956 post colonial novel by Cameroonian diplomat and writer Ferdinand Oyono.

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The Only Son (novel)

The Only Son is the debut novel of John Munonye.

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The River Between

The River Between is a 1965 novel by prolific Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o that was published as part of the influential African Writers Series.

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The Second Round (novel)

The Second Round is an English language novel by Sierra Leonian-Gambian writer and poet Lenrie Peters.

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The Stone-Country

The Stone-Country is a 1967 novel by South African novelist Alex La Guma.

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The Wedding of Zein

The Wedding of Zein (Arabic: عرس الزين) is a contemporary Arabic novel by the late Sudanese author Tayeb Salih.

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Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.

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This Earth, My Brother

This Earth, My Brother is a 1971 novel by Ghanaian novelist Kofi Awooner published, later republished by Heinemann as part of the influential African Writers Series.

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Thomas Mofolo

Thomas Mokopu Mofolo (22 December 1876 – 8 September 1948) is considered to be the greatest Basotho author.

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Time of the Butcherbird

Time of the Butcherbird is the final novel by South African novelist Alex La Guma.

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Tom Mboya

Thomas Joseph Odhiambo "Tom" Mboya (15 August 1930 – 5 July 1969) was a Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author, independence activist, Cabinet Minister and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya.

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Trevor LeGassick

Trevor LeGassick (born August 19, 1935) is a noted Western scholar and translator in the field of Arabic literature.

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Two Thousand Seasons

Two Thousand Seasons is a novel by Ghanaian novelist Ayi Kwei Armah.

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Ulli Beier

Chief Horst Ulrich Beier, known as Ulli Beier (30 July 1922 – 3 April 2011), was a German Jewish editor, writer and scholar, who had a pioneering role in developing literature, drama and poetry in Nigeria, as well as literature, drama and poetry in Papua New Guinea.

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University of Reading

The University of Reading is a public university located in Reading, Berkshire, England.

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Wand of Noble Wood

Wand of Noble Wood is a 1961 novel by Nigerian author Onoura Nzekwu, which was later republished by Heinemann as part of the important African Writers Series.

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Weep Not, Child

Weep Not, Child is Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's first novel, published in 1964 under the name James Ngugi.

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West Africa

West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.

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William Farquhar Conton

William Farquhar Conton (27 October 1925 – July 2002) was a Sierra Leonean educator, historian and novelist.

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Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: Akinwándé Oluwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyinká,; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist.

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Xala (novel)

Xala is a 1973 novel by Ousmane Sembène, that was later translated and published in English in 1976 as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers Series.

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Yahya Taher Abdullah

Yahya Taher Abdullah (Arabic: يحيى الطاهر عبد الله) (born in Karnak in 1938, died April 9, 1981) was an Egyptian writer.

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Yambo Ouologuem

Yambo Ouologuem (August 22, 1940 – October 14, 2017) was a Malian writer.

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Yoruba language

Yoruba (Yor. èdè Yorùbá) is a language spoken in West Africa.

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Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy

Yulisa Amadu Pat Maddy (27 December 1936 - 16 March 2014), The Patriotic Vanguard, 21 March 2014.

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Yusuf Idris

Yusuf Idris, also Yusif Idris (يوسف إدريس) (May 19, 1927 – August 1, 1991) was an Egyptian writer of plays, short stories, and novels.

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Yusuf Sibai

Yusuf Mohamed Mohamed Abdel Wahab Al-Sibai (June 17, 1917 – February 18, 1978), was an Egyptian writer and minister.

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Zambia Shall Be Free

Zambia Shall Be Free is a 1962 political autobiography by Zambia's first president Kenneth Kaunda that was published as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series.

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Zulu language

Zulu (Zulu: isiZulu) is the language of the Zulu people, with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Writers_Series

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