AFRICAN LITERATURE Study Guide LITERATURE Articles
GENRES (Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography - Essay) PERIODS (Postclassical - E Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century)
Literary Works
KENYA
Ngugi wa Thiong’o(1938- ) GRAIN OF WHEAT, A(1967)-WIZARD OF THE CROW(2004)
LESOTHO
Mofolo, Thomas(1876-1948) CHAKA(1925)
NIGERIA
Tutuola, Amos(1920-1997) PALM-WINE DRINKARD(1952)
Achebe, Chinua(1930-2013) THINGS FALL APART(1958)
Amadi, Elechi(1934-2016) CONCUBINE(1966)
Soyinka, Wole(1934- ) DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN(1975)
Emecheta, Buchi(1944-2017) BRIDE PRICE(1976)
SENEGAL
Sembene, Ousmane(1923-2007) XALA(1973)
SOUTH AFRICA
Schreiner, Olive(1855-1920) STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM(1883)
Paton, Alan(1903-1988) CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY(1948)
Renault, Mary(1905-1983) LAST OF THE WINE(1956)
Gordimer, Nadine(1923-2014) CONSERVATIONIST(1974)-JULY’S PEOPLE(1981)
Fugard, Athol(1932- ) ‘‘MASTER HAROLD” ... AND THE BOYS(1932)
Head, Bessi(1937-1986) WHEN RAIN CLOUDS GATHER(1968)
Coetzee, J. M.(1940- ) WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS(1980)-LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K(1983)-DISGRACE(1999)
ZIMBABWE
Lessing, Doris(1919-2013) GOLDEN NOTEBOOK (1962)-FIFTH CHILD(1988)