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AFRICAN LITERATURE BOOKS

Title: Arrow of God

Author: Chinua Achebe

Year written: 1964

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Anchor Books

Year published: 1969

ISBN #: 0385014805

ISBN-13: 9780385014809

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Cry, the Beloved Country

Author: Alan Paton

Year written: 1948

Author’s country of origin: South Africa

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Year published: 1995, 2003

ISBN #: 0743262174

ISBN-13: 9780743262170

Language: English

Number of Copies: 2

Title: African Short Stories

Author: Chinua Achebe & C. L. Innes

Year written: 1985

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria 

Publisher: Heinemann

Year published: 1987

ISBN #: 0435905368

ISBN-13: 9780435905361

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Girls at War and Other Stories

Author: Chinua Achebe

Year written: 1972

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Anchor Books

Year published: 1991

ISBN #: 0385418965

ISBN-13: 9780385418966

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Ake: The Years of Childhood

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 1981

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Vintage International 

Year published: 1989

ISBN #: 0679725407

ISBN-13: 9780679725404

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Anthills of the Savannah

Author: Chinua Achebe

Year written: 1987

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Anchor Books

Year published: 1989

ISBN #: 0385260458

ISBN-13: 9780385260459

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: No Longer at Ease

Author: Chinua Achebe

Year written: 1960

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Anchor Books

Year published: 1994, 2006

ISBN #: 0385474555

ISBN-13: 9780385474559

Language: English

Number of Copies: 2

Title: Collected Plays Vol. 1

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 1973

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Year published: 1973

ISBN #: 0192811363

ISBN-13: 9780192811363

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Sweet and Sour Milk

Author: Nuruddin Farah

Year written: 1979

Author’s country of origin: Somalia

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Year published: 1992

ISBN #: 1555971598

ISBN-13: 9781555971595

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease

Author: Chinua Achebe

Year written: 1958

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Penguin Group

Year published: 2017

ISBN #: 0143131346

ISBN-13: 9780143131342

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays

Author: Chinua Achebe

Year written: 2009

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Year published: 2009

ISBN #: 0307272559

ISBN-13: 9780307272553

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Climate of Fear

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 2004

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Random House

Year published: 2005

ISBN #: 0812974247

ISBN-13: 9780812974249

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 1998

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Year published: 1999

ISBN #: 0195122054

ISBN-13: 9780195122053

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Sardines

Author: Nuruddin Farah

Year written: 1981

Author’s country of origin: Somalia

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Year published: 2006

ISBN #: 155597161X

ISBN-13: 9781555971618

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Knots

Author: Nuruddin Farah

Year written: 2007

Author’s country of origin: Somalia

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Year published: 2007

ISBN #: 1594489246

ISBN-13: 9781594489242

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Hiding in Plain Sight

Author: Nuruddin Farah

Year written: 2014

Author’s country of origin: Somalia

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Year published: 2014

ISBN #: 1594633363

ISBN-13: 9781594633362

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: North of Dawn

Author: Nuruddin Farah

Year written: 2018

Author’s country of origin: Somalia

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Year published: 2018

ISBN #: 0735214239

ISBN-13: 9780735214231

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Allah is Not Obliged

Author: Ahmadou Kourouma

Year written: 2000

Author’s country of origin: Ivory Coast

Publisher: Anchor Books

Year published: 2007

ISBN #: 030727957X

ISBN-13: 9780307279576

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Chaka

Author: Thomas Mofolo

Year written: 1925

Author’s country of origin: South Africa

Publisher: Heinemann

Year published: 1981

ISBN #: 0435902296

ISBN-13: 9780435902292

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Serowe: Village of the Rain-Wind

Author: Bessie Head

Year written: 1981

Author’s country of origin: Botswana

Publisher: Heinemann

Year published: 1988

ISBN #: 0435902202

ISBN-13: 9780435902209

Number of Copies: 1

Title: The Interpreters

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 1965

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Heinemann

Year published: 1986

ISBN #: 0435900765

ISBN-13: 9780435900762

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: The Collector of Treasures: and Other Botswana Village Tales

Author: Bessie Head

Year written: 1977

Author’s country of origin: Botswana

Publisher: Heinemann

Year published: 1992

ISBN #: 0435909819

ISBN-13: 9780435909819

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Death and the King's Horseman

(A Play)

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 1975

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Year published: 2002

ISBN #: 0393322998

ISBN-13: 9780393322996

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Links

(A Novel)

Author: Nuruddin Farah

Year written: 2003

Author’s country of origin: Somalia

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year published: 2005

ISBN #: 0143034847

ISBN-13: 9780143034841

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: So Long a Letter

(African Writers Series)

Author: Mariama Ba

Year written: 1979

Author’s country of origin: Senegal

Publisher: Heinemann

Year published: 1989

ISBN #: 0435905554

ISBN-13: 9780435905552

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Secrets

Author: Nuruddin Farah

Year written: 1998

Author’s country of origin: Somalia

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year published: 1999

ISBN #: 0140280456

ISBN-13: 9780140280456

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Une Si Longue Lettre

Author: Mariama Ba

Year written: 1970

Author’s country of origin: Senegal

Publisher: Privat/ Le Rocher

Year published: 2005

ISBN #: 2842612892

ISBN-13: 9782842612894

Language: French

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Les Soleils des Independences

Author: Ahmadou Kourouma

Volume:Edition:Year written: 1968

Author’s country of origin: Ivory Coast

Publisher: Editions Du Seuil

Year published: 1990

ISBN #: 2020259214

ISBN-13: 9782020259217

Language: French

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Things Fall Apart

Author: Chinua Achebe

Year written: 1958

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year published: 2017

ISBN #: 0385474547

ISBN-13: 9780385474542

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Things Fall Apart: With Connections

Author: Chinua Achebe

Year written: 1958

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Heinemann Publishers

Year published: 1999

ISBN #: 0030554381

ISBN-13: 9780030554384

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: A Man of the People

Author: Chinua Achebe

Year written: 1966

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year published: 2016

ISBN #: 0385086164

ISBN-13: 9780385086165

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Home and Exile

Author: Chinua Achebe

Year written: 2000

Author’s country of origin:  Nigeria

Publisher: Anchor Books

Year published: 2001

ISBN #: 0385721331

ISBN-13: 9780385721332

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: From a Crooked Rib

Author: Nuruddin Farah

Year written: 1970

Author’s country of origin: Somalia

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year published: 2006

ISBN #: 0143037269

ISBN-13: 9780143037262

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Gifts

Author: Nuruddin Farah

Year written: 1993

Author’s country of origin: Somalia

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year published: 2000

ISBN #: 0140296425

ISBN-13: 9780140296426

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Chike and the River

Author: Chinua Achebe

Year written: 1962

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year published: 1990

ISBN #: 0307473864

ISBN-13: 9780307473868

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: The Lion and the Jewel

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 1962

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: 1990

ISBN #: 0199110832

ISBN-13: 9780199110834

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: The African Queen

Author: C. S. Forester

Year written: 1935

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Year published: 1968

ISBN #: 0316289108

ISBN-13: 9780316289108

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams

(A South African Explores the Madness in His Country)

Author: Rian Malan

Year written: 1990

Author’s country of origin: South Africa

Publisher: Vintage Classics

Year published: 2015

ISBN #: 0099583461

ISBN-13: 9780099583462

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: The Graves Are Not Yet Full Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa

Author: Bill Berkeley

Year written: 2001

Author’s country of origin: USA

Publisher: Basic Books

Year published: 2001

ISBN #: 0465006418

ISBN-13: 9780465006410

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: The African Dream: A Revolutionary Rebellion

(A Historical Fiction based on The Anglo Ashanti Wars)

Author: Bernard Osei Annang

Year written: Independently Published

Author’s country of origin: Ghana

Publisher: Independently Published

Year published: 2019

ISBN #: 108190304X

ISBN-13: 9781081903046

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

Author: D. T. Niane

Author’s country of origin: Guinea

Publisher: Longman African Writers

Year published: 1994

ISBN #: 0582264758

ISBN-13: 9780582264755

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Waiting for the Barbarians

(A Novel)

Author: J.M. Coetzee

Year written: 1940

Author’s country of origin: South Africa

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year published: 1980

ISBN #: 014006110X

ISBN-13: 9780140061109

Language: English

Number of Copies:  1

Title: Miramar

Author: Naguib Mahfouz

Year written: 1967

Author’s country of origin: Egypt

Publisher: Anchor Books, Doubleday

Year published: 1993

ISBN #: 2900385264784

ISBN-13: 2900385264784

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Jump and Other Stories

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Year written: 1991

Author’s country of origin: South Africa

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year published: 1991

ISBN #: 0374180555

ISBN-13: 9780374180553

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Life Times: Stories 1952-2007

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Year written: 1953

Author’s country of origin: South Africa

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year published: 2010

ISBN #: 0374270538

ISBN-13: 9780374270537

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: July's People

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Year written: 1981

Author’s country of origin: South Africa

Publisher: The Viking Press

Year published: 1981

ISBN #: 0670410489

ISBN-13: 9780670410484

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Oeuvre Poetique

Author: Leopold Sedar Senghor

Year written: 1964

Author’s country of origin: Senegal

Publisher: Editions du Seuil

Year published: 1990

ISBN #: 2020121069

ISBN-13: 9782020121064

Language: French

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Burger's Daughter

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Year written: 1979

Author’s country of origin: South Africa

Publisher: The Viking Press

Year published: 1979

ISBN #: 0670194751

ISBN-13: 9780670194759

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: In the Heart of the Country

(A Novel)

Author: J. M. Coetzee

Author’s country of origin: South Africa

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year published: 1977

ISBN #: 0140062289

ISBN-13: 9780140062281

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: The Conservationist

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Year written: 1974

Author’s country of origin: South Africa

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year published: 1983

ISBN #: 0140047166

ISBN-13: 9780140047165

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: None to Accompany Me

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Year written: 1994

Author’s country of origin: South Africa

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year published: 1994

ISBN #: 0374222975

ISBN-13: 9780374222970

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: Refuge Tales

Author: Ali Smith, Patience Agbabi, Abdulrazak Gurnah & Others

Year written: 2015

Author’s country of origin: Unknown

Publisher: Comma Press

Year published: 2016

ISBN #: 1910974234

ISBN-13: 9781910974230

Language: English

Number of Copies: 1

Title: AKÉ (The Years of Childhood)

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 2014

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Bookcraft

Year published: 2014

ISBN #: 9789788457114

ISBN-13: 9789788457114

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: The Man Died (Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka)

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 1972

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Bookcraft

Year published: 2014

ISBN #: 9789788457091

ISBN-13: 9789788457091

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: ÌBÀDÀN (The Penkelemes Years)

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 1994

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Bookcraft

Year published: 2014

ISBN #: 9789788457121

ISBN-13: 9789788457121

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: ÌSARÀ (A Voyage Around Essay)

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 1989

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Bookcraft

Year published: 2014

ISBN #: 978-978-845-710-7

ISBN-13: 978-978-845-710-7

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind

Author: Bessie Head

Year written: 1981

Author’s country of origin: Botswana

Publisher: Botswana

Year published: 2008

ISBN #: 9780435902735

ISBN-13: 9780435902735

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: Interventions (Volume III)
The Unappeasable Price of Appeasement

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 2011

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Bookcraft

Year published: 2011

ISBN #: 978-978-813-523-4

ISBN-13: 978-978-813-523-4

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: Interventions (Volume V)
Between Defective Memory and the Public Lie
A Personal Odyssey in THE REPUBLIC OF LIARS

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 2015

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Bookcraft

Year published: 2015

ISBN #: 978-978-845-748-0

ISBN-13: 978-978-845-748-0

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: Interventions VI
Between Defective Memory and the Public Lie
A Personal Odyssey in The Republic of Liars II

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 2017

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Bookcraft

Year published: 2017

ISBN #: 9789785482720

ISBN-13: 9789785482720

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: Interventions VII
Green Cards, Green Gods
The Republic Shrieks Back

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 2017

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Bookcraft

Year published: 2017

ISBN #: 978-978-54827-3-7

ISBN-13: 978-978-54827-3-7

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: Interventions VIII:
QUIS COSTUDIET IPSOS CUSTODES?
Gani’s Unfinished Business

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 2018

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Bookcraft

Year published: 2018

ISBN #: 978-978-556-200-2

ISBN-13: 978-978-556-200-2

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: A Gift of Sequins (Letters to My Wife)

Author: Victor Banjo& Olayinka Omigbodun

Year written: 2008

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Mosuro

Year published: 2008

ISBN-13: 978-978-484-120-7

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: The Thing About Compromise

Author: Maryam Awaisu

Year written: 2019

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: AMAB Books & Publishing

Year published: 2019

ISBN #: 978-978-562-009-2

ISBN-13: 978-978-562-009-2

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: Things Fall Apart

Author: Chinua Achebe

Year written: 1958

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year published: 2001

ISBN #: 978-014-118-688-7

ISBN-13: 978-014-118-688-7

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: The Day the Leader Was Killed

Author: Naguib Mahfouz

Year written: 1985

Author’s country of origin: Egypt

Publisher: Anchor Books

Year published: 2000

ISBN #: 0385499221

ISBN-13: 978-038-549-9224

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: Foreign God, Inc

Author: Okey Ndibe

Year written: 2014

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Soho

Year published: 2014

ISBN #: 978-161-695-445-1

ISBN-13: 978-161-695-445-1

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: Anthills of the Savannah

Author: Chinua Achebe

Year written: 1987

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year published: 2001

ISBN #: 978-014-118-690-0

ISBN-13: 978-014-118-690-0

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: Plays 1

Author:  Wole Soyinka

Year written: 1964,1971,1973,1975,1981,1984

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Methuen

Year published: 1998

ISBN #: 0143553507

ISBN-13: 978-041-355-350-8

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: Plays 2

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 1984,1992,1995

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Methuen

Year published: 1999

ISBN #: 9780413732606

ISBN-13: 978-041-373-260-6

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives

Author: Lola Shoneyin

Year written: 2010

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Cassava Republic Press

Year published: 2018

ISBN-13: 978-978-485-180-0

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: The Lion and the Jewel

Author: Wole Soyinka

Year written: 1964

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Mosuro

Year published: 2018

ISBN #: 978-978-353-591-6

ISBN-13: 978-978-353-591-6

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: Children of Blood and Bone

Author: Tomi Adeyemi

Year written: 2018

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Year published: 2018

ISBN #: 978-150-987-135-3

ISBN-13: 978-085-255-501-9

Language: English

Number of copies: 1

Title: Children of Virtue and Vengeance

Author: Tomi Adeyemi

Year written: 2019

Author’s country of origin: Nigeria

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Year published: 2019

ISBN #: 978-152-903-479-0

ISBN-13: 978-152-903-479-0

Language: English

Number of copies: 1