List of Countries in Africa

Currently, there are between 47 and 55 countries on the continent of Africa. The most

accurate count of countries for the continent of Africa is 54. This includes all
internationally recognized territories and states on the continent. The variation is a result
of disputed territories and inconsistencies around the inclusion of island nations off the
coast of Africa. The African Union recognizes 54 countries while the United Nations
recognizes 54 as well. They, unfortunately, do not recognize the same 54 nations.  Both
the United Nations and the African Union have slight variations in their inclusions of
countries. For example, Morocco is part of the United Nations but not a member of the
African Union. The recently created region of Western Sahara is recognized by the
African Union but not by the United Nations.

DIVIDING LINES OF AFRICA

The continent of Africa is bordered to the West by the Atlantic Ocean. To the East you
will find the boundary set by the Indian Ocean. To the South, the Southern Ocean gives
Africa is “V” shape. To the North, the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea define its
boundaries. Africa is one of the few continents that is mostly defined simply by the
bodies of water which surround it.

LIST OF COUNTRIES IN AFRICA

African Country Capital City Population

 Algeria Algiers 39,667,203

 Angola Luanda 25,326,755
 Benin Porto-Novo 10,782,365
 Botswana Gaborone 2,176,741
 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 18,450,347
 Burundi Bujumbura 9,824,320
 Cameroon Yaoundé 21,918,057
 Cape Verde Praia 525,662
 Central African Republic Bangui 4,900,413
 Chad N’Djamena 13,675,741
 Comoros Moroni 783,544
 African Country Capital City Population

 Democratic Republic of the

Kinshasa 77,267,269
Congo
 Djibouti Djibouti 961,037
 Egypt Cairo 88,523,985
 Equatorial Guinea Malabo 1,996,227
 Eritrea Asmara 6,895,222
 Ethiopia Addis Ababa 99,391,145
 Gabon Libreville 1,873,230
 Gambia Banjul 2,022,474
 Ghana Accra 27,414,682
 Guinea Conakry 10,935,259
 Guinea-Bissau Bissau 1,788,088
 Ivory Coast Abidjan, Yamoussoukro 23,126,355
 Kenya Nairobi 45,533,204
 Lesotho Maseru 1,908,335
 Liberia Monrovia 4,046,007
 Libya Tripoli 6,278,522
 Madagascar Antananarivo 23,043,955
 Malawi Lilongwe 16,307,685
 Mali Bamako 17,796,125
 Mauritania Nouakchott 3,632,657
 Mauritius Port Louis 1,263,916
 Morocco Rabat 34,380,277
 Mozambique Maputo 28,013,037
 Namibia Windhoek 2,281,238
 Niger Niamey 18,880,785
 Nigeria Abuja 182,202,652
 Republic of the Congo Brazzaville 4,706,257
 Rwanda Kigali 11,324,426
 African Country Capital City Population

 São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé 194,000

 Senegal Dakar 14,150,852
 Seychelles Victoria 970,457
 Sierra Leone Freetown 6,513,357
 Somalia Mogadishu 10,972,148
Bloemfontein, Cape Town,
 South Africa 5,495,724
Pretoria
 South Sudan Juba 12,519,321
 Sudan Khartoum 40,235,712
 Swaziland Mbabane 1,119,524
 Tanzania Dodoma 51,046,045
 Togo Lomé 7,065,418
 Tunisia Tunis 11,118,759
 Uganda Kampala 37,102,024
 Zambia Lusaka 15,474,644
 Zimbabwe Harare 13,503,963
Total 1,125,307,147

It may seem odd to have a to-be-determined count of countries on a

continent, but in no way is the continent of Africa unique in this confusion.
Similar situations exist on the continent of Asia with Taiwan and on the
continent of Europe with including the country of Kosovo.
 Old Name of Africa
http://prince.org/msg/105/415697

The Original name for Africa is: Alkebulan: Arabic for “The
Land Of The Blacks"
Alkebulan is the oldest and the only name of indigenous origin. It was used by
the Moors, Nubians, Numidians, Khart-Haddans (Carthagenians), and Ethiopians.
Africa, the current name adopted by almost everyone today, was given to this continent
by a European invader by the name of Louis Africanus. Like all methods of manipulation
the Romans sought to completely disconnect the indigenous Africans from their culture,
deities, and knowledge.
History of Louis Africanus and Alkebulan's name change:
Publius Cornelius Scipio battled Carthage–a powerful city-state in northern
Africa–which had established itself as the leading maritime power in the world. The First
Punic War broke out in 264 B.C. when Rome interfered in a dispute on the
Carthaginian-controlled island of Sicily; the war ended with Rome in control of both
Sicily and Corsica and marked the empire's emergence as a naval as well as a land
power. In the Second Punic War, the great Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy
and scored great victories at Lake Trasimene and Cannae before his eventual defeat at
the hands of Rome's Scipio in 202 B.C. left Rome in control of the western
Mediterranean and much of Spain. In the Third Punic War, the Romans, led by  Publius
Cornelius Scipio the sYounger captured and destroyed the city of Carthage in 146 B.C.,
turning Alkebulan into Africa. Scipio then later adapted the name Publius Cornelius
Scipio Africanus.

The following is a great Alkebulan quote:

"Think about your Alkebu-lan consciousness, your culture, your names, your homeland,
your past, your civilizations, your heritage, your ancestors, and your Mind. Today we
have a false identity of self, self-hatred, hatred for your brother, and a deep hatred for
Alkebu-lan our origin.” Nana Nasi
http://consciousplat.com/alkebulan

List of all African countries and their

Independence Days, colonial names and former
colonizers.
Country INDEPENDENCE DAY Colonial Name Colonial Country
Algeria July 5th, 1962 France
Angola November 11th; 1975 Portugal
Benin August 1st; 1960 France
Botswana September 30th, 1966   Bechuanaland Britain
Burkina Faso August 5; 1960 France
Burundi July 1st; 1962 Belgium
Cameroon January 1st; 1960 French-UN Trusteeship
Cape Verde July 5th; 1975 Portugal
C.A.R August 13th; 1960 France
Chad August 11th, 1960 France
Comoros July 6th; 1975 France
Congo August 15th; 1960 France
Congo DRC June 30th; 1960 Belgium
Cote d’Ivoire August 7th; 1960 France
Djibouti June 27th; 1977 France
Egypt February 28th, 1922 Britain
Eq Guinea October 12; 1968 Spain
Eritrea May 24th; 1993 Ethiopia
over 2000 years, (formerly)
Ethiopia Never
Never colonized Kingdom of Aksum
Gabon August 17th; 1960 France
Gambia February 18th; 1965 Britain
Ghana 6 March 1957 Gold Coast Britain
Guinea October 2nd; 1958 France
10 September 1974
Guinea Bissau Portugal
24 September 1973
Kenya December 12th, 1963 Britain
Lesotho October 4th; 1966 Britain
American colonization
Liberia July 26th; 1847
Society
Libya December 24; 1951 Italy
Madagascar June 26th; 1960 France
Malawi July 6th; 1964 Britain
Mali September 22nd; 1960 France
Mauritania November 28th; 1960 France
Mauritius March 12th, 1968 Britain
Morocco March 2nd; 1956 France
Mozambique June 25th; 1975 Portugal
Namibia March 21st; 1990 South African mandate
Nager August 3rd; 1960 France
Nigeria October 1st, 1960 Britain
Rwanda July 1st; 1962 Belgium- UN Trusteeship
Sao Tome
July 12th; 1975 Portugal
Principe
Senegal April 4th; 1960 France
Seychelles June 29th; 1976 Britain
Sierra Leone April 27th; 1961 Britain
British Somaliland Britain
Somalia July 1st; 1960
Italian Somaliland Italy
11 December 1931,
Union of South
South Africa April 1994(end of Britain
Africa
apatheid)
Sudan January 1st; 1956 Egypt, Britain
Swaziland September 6th; 1968 Britain
Tanzania April 26th, 1964 Britain
Togo April 27th; 1960 French-UN Trusteeship
Tunisia March 20th; 1956 France
Uganda October 9th; 1962 Britain
Zambia October 24th; 1964 Britain
Zimbabwe April 18th; 1980 Britain
List of authors and books in the African Writers Series[edit]
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
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1 Achebe, Chinua 1962 Things Fall Apart
Burning Grass: a story of the Fulani of
2 Ekwensi, Cyprian 1962 Northern Nigeria. Illustrated by A. Folarin;
cover drawing by Dennis Duerden.
No Longer at Ease. Illustrated by Bruce
3 Achebe, Chinua 1963
Onobrakpeya.
4 Kaunda, Kenneth D. 1962 Zambia Shall Be Free: an autobiography
People of the City. Revised edition.
5 Ekwensi, Cyprian 1963 (Originally published London: Dakers,
1954.)
Mine Boy. Illustrated by Ruth Yudelowitz.
6 Abrahams, Peter 1963 (London: Crisp, 1946; London: Faber, 1954;
New York: Knopf, 1955.)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (as
7 1964 Weep Not, Child
Ngugi, James)
A Book of African Verse. Later edition
Reed, John, Wake,
8 1964 published (1984) as New Book of African
Clive, eds
Verse.
Modern African Prose. An anthology
compiled and edited by Richard Rive.
Illustrated by Albert Adams. Contributions
by Peter Abrahams, Chinua Achebe, Es'kia
Mphahlele, Abioseh Nicol, Richard
Rive, Alfred Hutchinson, Efua
9 Rive, Richard, ed. 1964 Sutherland, Jonathan Kariara, Peter
Clarke, Luis Bernardo Honwana, Jack
Cope, Cyprian Ekwensi, Amos
Tutuola, Camara Laye, James
Matthews, Alf Wannenburgh, William
Conton, Onuora Nzekwu, and Ngũgĩ wa
Thiong'o.
10 Equiano, Olaudah 1966 Equiano's Travels: His Autobiography;
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa
the African. Abridged and edited by Paul
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11 Aluko, T. M. 1964 One Man, One Matchet
The African. (Previously published London:
12 Conton, William 1964 Heinemann, 1960. Boston: Little Brown,
1960.)
Mission to Kala: a novel. Translated by
Peter Green from the French novel Mission
13 Beti, Mongo 1964 terminée (1957). US edition (New York,
Macmillan) published as Mission
Accomplished.
Quartet: New voices from South Africa.
Short stories by Alex La Guma, James
14 Rive, Richard, ed. 1963
Matthews, Richard Rive and Alf
Wannenburgh.
Origin East Africa: a Makerere anthology
15 Cook, David 1965 devised and edited by David Cook. Prose
and verse.
16 Achebe, Chinua 1966 Arrow of God
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (as
17 1965 The River Between
Ngugi, James)
The Imprisonment of Obatala, and other
18 Obotunde Ijimere 1966
plays.
19 Ekwensi, Cyprian 1966 Lokotown and Other Stories.
20 Gatheru, Mugo 1966 Child of Two Worlds.
21 Munonye, John 1966 The Only Son.
22 Peters, Lenrie 1966 The Second Round.
The Origin of Life and Death: African
23 Beier, Ulli, ed. 1966
creation myths.
24 Kachingwe, Aubrey 1966 No Easy Task.
25 Amadi, Elechi 1966 The Concubine. Heinemann: London.
26 Nwapa, Flora 1966 Efuru.
27 Selormey, Francis 1966 The Narrow Path.
Cook, David, Lee, Short East African Plays in English: Ten
28 1968
Miles, eds plays in English.
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Houseboy. Translated by John Reed from
29 Oyono, Ferdinand 1966
the French Une vie de boy
30 Aluko, T. M. 1967 One Man, One Wife.
A Man of the People. (Originally
31 Achebe, Chinua 1966 published: Nigerian Printing and Publishing,
1959.)
32 Aluko, T. M. 1966 Kinsman and Foreman
33 Samkange, Stanlake 1967 On Trial for my Country
Ten One-Act Plays. Includes "Encounter"
by Kuldip Sondhi; "Yon Kon" by Pat
Maddy; "The Game" by Femi Euba; "Blind
Cyclos" by Ime Ikeddeh; "With Strings' by
34 Pieterse, Cosmo, ed. 1968 Kuldip Sondhi; "The Deviant" by Ganesh
Bagchi; "Fusane's Trial" by Alfred
Hutchinson; "The Opportunity" by Arthur
Maimane; "Maama" by Kwesi Kay; and
"The Occupation" by Athol Fugard
35 La Guma, Alex 1968 A Walk in the Night and other stories.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (as
36 1967 A Grain of Wheat.
Ngugi, James)
37 Peters, Lenrie 1967 Satellites
Not Yet Uhuru: the autobiography of
38 Oginga Odinga 1967 Oginga Odinga. With a foreword
by Kwame Nkrumah.
The Old Man and the Medal. Translated
39 Oyono, Ferdinand 1967 by John Reed from the French Le vieux
nègre et la médaille.
40 Konadu, Asare 1967 A Woman in Her Prime
41 Djoleto, Amu 1967 The Strange Man.
Awoonor,
42 Kofiand Adali, Mortty, 1970 Messages: poems from Ghana.
G.
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born.
43 Armah, Ayi Kwei 1969
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.)
44 Amadi, Elechi 1969 The Great Ponds.
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45 Munonye, John 1969 Obi.
Letters to Martha: and other poems from a
46 Brutus, Dennis 1968
South African prison.
47 1969 The Wedding of Zein, and other stories.
London; printed in Malta: HEB, 1969.
Salih, Tayeb Translated by Denys Johnson-
Davies from the Arabic, and illustrated
by Ibrahim Salahi.
Gbadamosi, Bakare; Not Even God Is Ripe Enough.
48 1968
Beier, Ulli Translated from the Yoruba
Neo-colonialism: the last stage of
49 Nkrumah, Kwame 1968 imperialism. (Originally published London:
Nelson, 1965)
America: Their America. London: HEB in
association with Andre Deutsch.
50 Clark, J. P. 1968
(Originally published London: Deutsch,
1964.)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (as
51 1968 The Black Hermit.
Ngugi, James)
The Afersata: an Ethiopian novel. London:
52 Sellassie, B. M. Sahle 1969
HEB.
53 Palangyo, Peter K. 1968 Dying in the Sun.136pp
54 Serumaga, Robert 1969 Return to the Shadows.
Ordained by the Oracle. 160 pp.
55 Konadu, Asare 1969 Originally published as Come Back Dora,
Accra: Anowuo Educational Publ.
56 Nwapa, Flora 1970 Idu.
57 Dipoko, Mbella Sonne 1969 Because of Women.
Political Spider: an anthology of stories
58 Beier, Ulli, ed. 1969
from "Black Orpheus".
59 Asare, Bediako 1971 Rebel.
We Killed Mangy-Dog, & other stories.
Honwana, Luís
60 1969 Translated from the
Bernardo
Portuguese by Dorothy Guedes.
61 Umeasiegbu, Rems 1969 The Way We Lived: Ibo customs and stories.
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62 Okigbo, Christopher 1971 Labyrinths. With Path of Thunder.
God's Bits of Wood. Translated by Francis
63 Ousmane, Sembene 1970
Price.
7 South African Poets: poems of exile.
64 Pieterse, Cosmo, ed. 1971
Collected and selected by Cosmo Pieterse.
The Joys of Motherhood. (Originally
65 Emecheta, Buchi 1980 published London: Allison & Busby, 1979).
[9]

Season of Migration to the North.

Translated by Denys Johnson-
66 Salih, Tayeb 1969
Davies from the Arabic Mawsim al-hijrah
ilā al-shamāl.
Danda. (Originally published London:
67 Nwankwo, Nkem 1970
Deutsch, 1964)
The Voice. Introduction by Arthur
68 Okara, Gabriel 1970 Ravenscroft. (Originally published London:
Deutsch, 1964)
69 Liyong, Taban lo 1969 Fixions, and other stories.
70 Aluko, T. M. 1970 Chief, The Honourable Minister.
Senghor, Léopold Nocturnes. Translated by John Reed and
71 1969
Sédar Clive Wake from the French.
Selected Poems. Translated by Gerald
72 U'tamsi, Felix 1970
Moore from the French.
North African Writing. Selected, translated,
73 Ortzen, Len, ed. 1970
and with an introduction by Len Ortzen.
Eating Chiefs: Lwo culture from Lolwe
74 Liyong, Taban lo, ed. 1970 to Malkal. Selected, interpreted and
transmuted by Taban lo Liyong.
75 Knappert, Jan 1970 Myths and Legends of the Swahili.
The Interpreters. With introduction and
notes by Eldred Jones. London:
76 Soyinka, Wole 1970
Heinemann. (Originally published London:
Deutsch, 1965.)
77 Beti, Mongo 1970 King Lazarus: a novel. Translated from
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the French Le roi miraculé (French version
originally published Editions Buchet, 1958.)
Short African plays. Including: "Ancestral
Power" by Kofi Awoonor; "Magic Pool"
by Kuldip Sondhi; "God's Deputy"
by Sanya Dosunmu; "Resurrection"
by Richard Rive; "Life Everlasting" by Pat
78 Pieterse, Cosmo 1972 Amadu Maddy; "Lament" by Kofi
Awoonor; "Ballad of the Cells" by Cosmo
Pieterse; "Overseas" by Mbella Sonne
Dipoko; "This Time Tomorrow" by Ngũgĩ
wa Thiong'o; "Episodes of an Easter Rising"
by David Lytton
Heirs to the Past. Translated by Len
Ortzen from the French.(Succession
79 Chraibi, Driss 1972
ouverteoriginally published Paris: Denoël,
1962.)
80 Farah, Nuruddin 1970 From a Crooked Rib.
The Challenge of Nationhood: a collection
of speeches and writings. Foreword by H.
81 Mboya, Tom 1970
E. Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, and postscript
by Pamela Mboya.
A Few Nights and Days. (Originally
82 Dipoko, Mbella Sonne 1970
published, Harlow: Longmans, 1966.)
Myths and Legends of the Congo. Nairobi:
83 Knappert, Jan 1971
HEB.
Beautiful Feathers. (Originally published
84 Ekwensi, Cyprian 1971
London: Hutchinson, 1963)
85 Onuora Nzekwu 1971 Wand of Noble Wood.
Agatha Moudio's Son. Translated
86 Bebey, Francis 1971 by Joyce A. Hutchinson from the
French Le fils d'Agatha Moudio.
Climbié. Translated by Karen C.
87 Dadié, Bernard B. 1971
Chapman from the French.
88 Beti, Mongo 1971 The Poor Christ of Bomba. Translated
by Gerald Moore from the French Le
pauvre Christ de Bombay. (Original French
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edition published 1956.)
89 Maddy, Pat Amadu 1971 Obasai and other plays.
Frantz Fanon's Uneven Ribs: poems more
90 Liyong, Taban lo 1971
and more.
Blade Among the Boys. (Originally
91 Nzekwu, Onuora 1972
published London: Hutchinson, 1962.)
The Money-Order; with, White Genesis.
Translated by Clive Wake. London:
92 Ousmane, Sembène 1972 Heinemann. (Translation of Vehi ciosane;
ou, Blanche-genèse; suivi du Mandat, Paris:
Présence Africaine, 1965.)
A Choice of Flowers. Chaguo la Maua: an
93 Knappert, Jan, ed. 1972 anthology of Swahili love poetry. Edited and
translated from Swahili by Jan Knappert.
94 Munonye, John 1971 Oil Man of Obange.
The Smell Of It, and other stories.
95 Ibrahim, Sonallah 1971 Translated from the Arabic by Denys
Johnson-Davies.
Cook, David, Rubadiri,
96 1971 Poems from East Africa.
David, eds
97 Mazrui, Ali A. 1971 The Trial of Christopher Okigbo.
98 Mulaisho, Dominic 1971 The Tongue of the Dumb.
Bound to Violence. Translated by Ralph
Manheim from the French Devoi de
99 Ouologuem, Yambo 1971
violence. (Originally published London:
Secker & Warburg, 1971.)
100 Achebe, Chinua 1972 Girls At War.
101 Head, Bessie 1972 Maru.
102 Omotoso, Kole 1971 The Edifice.
103 Peters, Lenrie 1971 Katchikali. Poems.
The Will to Die. Selected by Donald Stuart
104 Themba, Can 1972
and Roy Holland.
105 Lubega, Bonnie 1971 The Outcasts.
106 Reed, John, Wake, 1972 French African verse. With English
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Clive, eds translations by John Reed & Clive Wake.
107 Dipoko, Mbella Sonne 1972 Black and White in Love: poems.
This Earth, My Brother. (Originally
108 Awoonor, Kofi 1972
published Garden City: Doubleday, 1971.)
Obiechina,
109 1972 Onitsha Market Literature.
Emmanuel N.
110 La Guma, Alex 1972 In the Fog of the Seasons' End.
111 Angira, Jared 1972 Silent Voices: poems.
An Ill-Fated People: Zimbabwe before and
after Rhodes. (Originally published with a
112 Vambe, Laurence 1972
foreword by Doris Lessing, London:
Heinemann, 1972.)
113 Mezu, S. Okechukwu 1971 Behind the Rising Sun.
114 Pieterse, Cosmo 1972 Five African Plays.
A Simple Lust: selected poems including
115 Brutus, Dennis 1973 Sirens Knuckles Boots; Letters to Martha;
Poems from Algiers; Thoughts Abroad.
116 Liyong, Taban lo 1972 Another Nigger Dead: poems.
Fate of a Cockroach: four plays of freedom.
117 Hakim, Tawfiq al- 1973 Selected and translated from the Arabic
by Denys Johnson-Davies.
Amadu's Bundle: Fulani tales of love and
djinns. Collected by Malum Amadu; edited
118 Amadu, Malum 1972
by Gulla Kell and translated into English
by Ronald Moody.
Ambiguous Adventure. Translated
from the French by Katherine Woods.
(This translation originally published New
119 Kane, Hamidou 1972
York: Walker, 1963. Translation
of L'Aventure ambiguë. Paris: Julliard,
1962.)
Beware, Soul Brother: poems. Revised
120 Achebe, Chinua 1970
and enlarged edition. London: HEB.
121 Munonye, John 1973 A Wreath for Maidens. [S.I.]: Heinemann
122 Omotoso, Kole 1972 The Combat.
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123 Mandela, Nelson 1973 No Easy Walk to Freedom.
124 Dikobe, Modikwe 1973 The Marabi Dance.
125 Worku, Daniachew 1973 The Thirteenth Sun.
126 Cheney-Coker, Syl 1973 Concerto for an Exile: poems.
Henderson, Gwyneth,
127 1973 Nine African Plays for Radio.
Pieterse, Cosmo, eds
128 Zwelonke, D. M. 1973 Robben Island.
Igbo Traditional Verse. Compiled and
Egudu,
translated by Romanus Egudu and Donatus
129 Romanus, Nwoga, 1973
Nwoga. (Originally published 1971 as Poetic
Donatus, eds
Heritage.)
130 Aluko, T. M. 1973 His Worshipful Majesty.
131 Lessing, Doris 1973 The Grass is Singing
Two Centuries of African English: a survey
132 Bown, Lalage 1973 and anthology of non-fictional English
prose by African writers since 1769.
Sir Apolo Kagwa Discovers Britain. Edited by
133 Mukasa, Ham 1975 Taban lo Liyong. (First published in 1904
as Uganda's Katikiro in England.)
African Theatre: eight prize-winning plays
for radio. Includes "Make Like Slaves"
by Richard Rive; "Station Street" by A. K.
Mustapha; "Sweet Scum of Freedom" by J.
Henderson, Gwyneth,
134 1973 Singh; "Double Attack" by C. C. Umeh;
ed.
"Scholarship Woman" by D. Clems; "The
Transistor Radio" by K. Tsaro-Wiwa;
"Family Spear" by E. N. Zirimu; and "Sign
of the Rainbow" by W. Ogunyemi.
Batouala. Translated by Barbara
135 Maran, René 1973 Beck and Alexandre Mboukou;
introduction by Donald E. Herdeck.
136 Sekyi, Kobina 1974 The Blinkards.
137 Maddy, Yulisa Amadu 1973 No Past, No Present, No Future.
138 Owusu, Martin 1973 The Sudden Return, and other plays.
139 Ruheni, Mwangi 1973 The Future Leaders.
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140 Amadi, Elechi 1973 Sunset in Biafra: a civil war diary.
141 Nortje, Arthur 1973 Dead Roots. Poems.
Tribal Scars and other stories. Translated
142 Sembène, Ousmane 1974
from the French by Len Ortzen.
143 Mwangi, Meja 1973 Kill Me Quick.
The Wound. Translated by Clive
144 Fall, Malick 1973
Wake from the French La plaie.
145 Mwangi, Meja 1973 Carcase for Hounds.
Jagua Nana. (Originally published,
146 Ekwensi, Cyprian 1975
London: Hutchinson, 1961.)
147 p'Bitek, Okot 1974 The Horn of My Love.
148 Aniebo, I. N. C. 1974 The Anonymity of Sacrifice.
A Question of Power. (Originally published
149 Head, Bessie 1974
London: Davis-Poynter, 1974.)
150 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 1975 Secret Lives, and other stories.
Midaq Alley. Translated from the
151 Mahfouz, Naguib 1975
Arabic by Trevor Le Gassick.
The Stone-Country. (Originally published
152 La Guma, Alex 1974
1967.)
A Dancer of Fortune. (London: William
153 Munonye, John 1975
Heinemann, 1974.)
154 Armah, Ayi Kwei 1974 Fragments.
Why Are We So Blest?: a novel. London:
155 Armah, Ayi Kwei 1974
Heinemann.
156 Ruheni, Mwangi 1975 The Minister's Daughter.
Kayper-Mensah, A.
157 1975 The Drummer in Our Time.
W.
158 Kahiga, Samuel 1974 The Girl From Abroad.
159 Mvungi, Martha 1975 Three Solid Stones.
Strike a Blow and Die: the classic story of
Mwasi, George
160 1975 the Chilembwe Rising. Edited and
Simeon
introduced by Robert I. Rotberg.
160 Djoleto, Amu 1975 Money Galore.
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162 Kayira, Legson 1974 The Detainee. London: Heinemann.
163 Sellassie, B. M. Sahle 1974 Warrior King.
164 Royston, Robert 1974 Black Poets in South Africa.
African Plays for Playing 2. Plays by Nuwa
Sentongo, Jacob Hevi & Segun Ajibade.
165 Etherton, Michael, ed. 1975
Selected and edited by Michael Etherton.
London: Heinemann.
166 De Graft, Joe 1975 Beneath the Jazz and Brass.
Translations from the Night: selected
Rabearivelo, Jean- poems of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. Edited
167 1975
Joseph with English translations by Clive Wake and
John Reed.
Echewa, T.
168 1976 The land's Lord.
Obinkaram
169 Samkange, Stanlake 1975 The Mourned One.
170 Mungoshi, Charles 1975 Waiting for the Rain.
Poems of Black Africa. Edited and
171 Soyinka, Wole, ed. 1975 introduced by Wole Soyinka. London:
Heinemann.
Restless City and Christmas Gold. London:
172 Ekwensi, Cyprian 1975
Heinemann.
173 Nwankwo, Nkem My Mercedes is Bigger Than Yours.
Hammer Blows. Translated from the French
174 Diop, David Mandessi 1975 and edited by Simon Mpondo and Frank
Jones. London: Heinemann.
Xala. Translated from the French by Clive
175 Ousmane, Sembène 1976 Wake. As Xala: roman, Paris: Présence
Africaine, 1973.
176 Mwangi, Meja 1976 Going Down River Road.
177 Gordimer, Nadine 1976 Some Monday for Sure.
178 Peteni, R. L. 1976 Hill of Fools.
179 Etherton, Michael (ed.) 1976 African Plays for Playing 2.
Includes Monkey on the tree by Uwa
Udensi, Black mamba two by Godfrey
Kabwe Kasoma and The tradedy of Mr.
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No-balance by Victor Eleame Musinga.
Prose and poetry. Selected and translated
180 Senghor, Léopold Sédar 1976
from French by John Reed and Clive Wake.
181 Beti, Mongo 1978 Perpetua and the Habit of Unhappiness.
Translated by Clive Wake and John Reed
from the French Perpétue et l'habitude du
malheur (originally published Paris: Editions
Buchet-Chastel, 1974).
182 Head, Bessie 1977 The Collector of Treasures.
183 Okara, Gabriel 1978 The Fisherman's Invocation.
184 Farah, Nuruddin 1976 A Naked Needle.
185 Ekwensi, Cyprian 1976 Survive the peace.
186 Boateng, Yaw M. 1977 The Return.
187 Rugyendo, Mukotani 1976 Barbed Wire and Other Plays.
188 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 1977 Petals of Blood.
189 Iroh, Eddie 1976 Forty-eight guns for the general
190 Samkange, Stanlake 1978 Year of the Uprising
Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa
191 & Mugo, Micere 1976 The trial of Dedan Kimathi
Githae
Anthology of Swahili poetry. Parallel Swahili
192 Jahadmy, Ali A. (ed.) 1977 text and English translation. Selected and
translated by Ali A. Jahadmy.
Hare and Hornbill. Compiled and translated
193 p'Bitek, Okot 1978 from the Acholi by Okot p'Bitek. London:
Heinemann.
194 Armah, Ayi Kwei 1979 The Healers: an historical novel.
195 Munonye, John 1978 Bridge to a Wedding. London: Heinemann.
196 Johnson-Davies, Denys 1978 Egyptian short stories. Includes 'House of
(ed.) flesh' by Yusuf Idris, 'Grandad Hasan'
by Yahya Taher Abdullah, 'Within the
walls' by Edward El-Kharrat, 'The
performer' by Ibrahim Aslan, 'The whistle'
by Abdul Hakim Kassem, 'Suddenly it
rained' by Baha Taher, 'The man who saw
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the sole of his left foot in a cracked mirror'
by Lutfi Al-Khouli, 'A conversation from
the third floor' by Mohamed El-Bisatie,
'Yusuf Murad Morcos' by Nabil Gorgy, 'The
conjurer made off with the dish' by Naguib
Mahfouz, 'The accusation' by Suleiman
Fayyad, 'A place under the dome'
by Abdul Rahman Fahmy, 'The country
boy' by Yusuf Sibai, 'The snake' by
Sonallah Ibrahim, 'The crush of life'
by Yusuf Sharouni, 'A story from prison'
by Yahya Hakki & 'The child and the king'
by Gamil Atia Ibrahim.
Miramar. Edited and revised by Maged el
197 Mahfouz, Naguib 1978 Kommos and John Rodenbeck;
introduced by John Fowles.
Unity and Struggle: speeches and writings.
198 Cabral, Amilcar 1979 Texts selected by the PAIGC; translated
from Portuguese by Michael Wolfers.
Wirriyamu. Translated from the French by
199 Sassine, Williams 1980
John Reed and Clive Wake.
200 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 1982 Devil on the Cross.
Mhudi: an epic of South African native life a
hundred years ago. (New York: Negro Univ.
Press, 1970; Johannesburg: Quagga
201 Plaatje, Sol T. 1978
Press, Ad. Donker, 1975; London: Rex
Collings, 1976; Washington, DC: Three
Continents Press, 1978).
The Real Life of Domingos Xavier.
202 Vieira, José Luandino 1978 Translated from the Portuguese by
Michael Wolfers.
Ripples in the Pool. (Nairobi: Transafrica,
203 Njau, Rebeka 1978
1975.)
204 Mulaisho, Dominic 1979 The Smoke that Thunders
The Ashanti Doll. Translated from the
205 Bebey, Francis 1978
French by Joyce A. Hutchinson.
206 Aniebo, I. N. C. 1978 The Journey Within.
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Marechera,
207 1978 The House of Hunger.
Dambudzo
Stubborn Hope: new poems and selections.
208 Brutus, Dennis 1978
London: Heinemann.
The cheapest nights, and other stories.
209 Idris, Yusuf 1978 Translated from the Arabic by Wadida
Wassef.
210 Amadi, Elechi 1978 The Slave.
Emperor Shaka the great: a Zulu epic.
211 Kunene, Mazisi 1979
Translated from the Zulu by the author.
Time of the Butcherbird. (Heinemann,
212 Le Guma, Alex 1979
1979)
213 Iroh, Eddie 1979 Toads of War.
Remember Ruben. Translated from the
214 Beti, Mongo 1980 French by Gerald Moore. (Originally
published Ibadan: New Horn, 1980.)
Wolfers, Poems from Angola. Selected, translated
215 1979
Michael(ed.) and introduced by Michael Wolfers.
216 Yirenki, Asiedu 1980 Kivuli and other plays.
I write what I like: a selection of his
217 Biko, Steve 1979
writings. Edited by Aelred Stubbs.
Two Thousand Seasons. London:
218 Armah, Ayi Kwei 1979
Heinemann.
Facing Mount Kenya: the traditional life of
the Gikuyu. With an introduction by B.
219 Kenyatta, Jomo 1979
Malinowski. (Originally published London:
Secker and Warburg, 1938.)
220 Head, Bessie 1981 Serowe, village of the rain wind.
The Graveyard Also Has Teeth, with
221 Cheney-Coker, Syl 1973 Concerto for an Exile: poems. London:
Heinemann.
Luuanda. Translated from the Portuguese
222 Vieira, José Luandino 1980
by Tamara L. Bender. London: Heinemann.
223 Ghanem, Fathy 1980 The man who lost his shadow: a novel in
four books. Translated from the Arabic
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by Desmond Stewart.
224 1981 South African people's plays.
Includes uNosilimela by Credo V.
Kavanagh, Robert
Mutwa, Shanti by Mthuli Shezi, Too
Mshengu (ed.)
Late by Gibson Kente & Survival by
the Workshop '71 Theatre Company.
225 Mahfouz, Naguib 1981 Children of Gebelawi.
Sweet and Sour Milk. (Originally published
226 Farah, Nuruddin 1980
London: Allison & Busby, 1979.)
The joys of motherhood. (Originally
227 Emecheta, Buchi 1980 published London: Allison and Busby,
1979.)
An Egyptian childhood: the autobiography
228 Hussein, Taha 1981 of Taha Hussein. Translated by E. H.
Paxton.
Chaka: an historical romance. New
translation by Daniel P. Kunene. Originally
229 Mofolo, Thomas 1981
translated from the Sesuto by F. H. Dutton,
London & New York: OUP, 1967.
Poets to the People: South African Freedom
230 Feinberg, Barry (ed.) 1980
Poems.
231 Jumbam, Kenjo 1980 White Man of God.
Egyptian one-act plays. Selected and
translated from the Arabic by Denys
Johnson-Davies. Includes The
Johnson-Davies, Denys interrogation by Farid Kamil, The
232 1981
(ed.) Trap by Alfred Farag, Marital
bliss by Abdel-Moneim Selim, The wheat
well by Ali Salem, and The donkey
marketby Tewfik al-Hakim.
233 Nyamfukudza, S. 1980 The Non-Believer's Journey; 128 pp.
Anthem of the decades: a Zulu epic.
234 Kunene, Mazisi 1981
Translated from Zulu by the author.
The ancestors and the sacred mountain:
235 Kunene, Mazisi 1982
poems. Translated from Zulu.
236 Mapanje, Jack 1981 Of Chameleons and Gods; 80 pp.
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237 Marechera, Dambudzo 1980 Black Sunlight.
238 Peters, Lenrie 1981 Selected Poetry; 160 pp.
The suns of independence. Translated from
239 Kourouma, Ahmadou 1981 the French Les soleils des
independances by Adrian Adams.
240 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 1981 Detained
241 Akare, Thomas 1981 The slums.
Wrong Ones in the Dock. London:
242 Aluko, T. M. 1982
Heinemann.
Mutloatse,
243 1981 Africa South: contemporary writings.
Mothobi (ed.)
Ya-Otto, Johnwith Ole
244 Gjerstad and Michael 1982 Battlefront Namibia : an autobiography
Mercer
245 NEVER ASSIGNED.[10]
246 Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa 1982 I will marry when I want.
247
So long a letter. Translated from the
248 Bâ, Mariama 1981 French Si longue lettre by Modupé Bodé-
Thomas.
My Command: An Account of the Nigerian
249 Obasanjo, Olusegun 1981
Civil War, 1967-1970.
250 Ousmane, Sembène 1981 The Last of the Empire.
Bandiet: seven years in a South African
251 Lewin, Hugh 1981
prison.
Sardines. (Originally published London:
252 Farah, Nuruddin 1982
Allison & Busby, 1981.)
Of Wives, Talismans, and the Dead: short
253 Aniebo, I. N. C. 1983 stories. Arranged by Willfred F. Feuser.
London; Exeter, N.H.: Heinemann.
254 Scanlon, Paul A. (ed.) 1983 Stories from central and southern Africa.
Includes 'Beggar my neighbour' by Dan
Jacobson, 'Kwashiorkor' by Can Themba,
'About a girl who met a dimo' by Susheela
Curtis, 'Hajji Musa and the Hindu fire-
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walker' by Ahmed Essop, 'The sisters'
by Pauline Smith, 'Tselane and the giant'
by B. L. Leshoai, 'Johannesburg,
Johannesburg' by Nathaniel Nakasa,
'Coming of the dry season' by Charles
Mungoshi, 'A soldier's embrace' by Nadine
Gordimer, 'Witchcraft' by Bessie Head, 'The
old woman' by Luis B. Honwana, 'Dopper
and Papist' by Herman C. Bosman, 'The
dishonest chief' by Ellis Singano and A. A.
Roscoe, 'The Soweto bride' by Mbulelo
Mzamane, 'A sunrise on the veld' by Doris
Lessing, 'The soldier without an ear'
by Paul Zeleza, 'Riva' by Richard Rive,
'Sunlight in Trebizond Street' by Alan
Paton, 'The Christmas reunion' by
Dambudzo Marechera, 'The king of the
waters' by A. C. Jordan, 'Power' by Jack
Cope, and 'In corner B' by Es'kia (Zeke)
Mphahlele.
255 Iroh, Eddie 1982 The siren in the night.
Bruner, Charlotte H. Unwinding Threads: writing by women in
256 1983
(ed.) Africa.
Calder, Angus, Jack
257 Mapanje & Cosmo 1983 Summer fires: new poetry of Africa.
Peterse
And Night Fell: Memoirs of a Political
258 Pheto, Molefe 1985 Prisoner in South Africa. (Originally
published London: Allison & Busby, 1983.)
259 NEVER PUBLISHED "A volume called This is the Time was
advertised as No. 259, but no such volume
exists in any of the library catalogues we
consulted. Research in the AWS archive
at Reading University reveals that this
was a projected anthology of Central and
Southern African poetry, which was instead
published as When My Brothers Come
Home: Poems from Central and Southern
Africa, edited by Frank M.
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Chipasula(Middleton, Conn.: Wesleyan
University Press, 1985)."[10]
"Kofi Awoonor's Until the Morning After:
Collected Poems 1963-1985 was to have
been AWS number 260, but was apparently
260 NEVER PUBLISHED
withdrawn by the author and instead
published by Greenfield Review Press, New
York, in 1987."[10]
A harvest of our dreams, with Elegy for the
261 Anyidoho, Kofi 1984
revolution: poems.
262 Nagenda, John 1986 The Seasons of Thomas Tebo.
263 Serote, Mongane 1983 To every birth its blood.
264 De Graft, Joe 1977 Muntu.
265 NEVER ASSIGNED.[10]
Song of Lawino: &, Song of Ocol. Translated
from the Acholi by Okot p'Bitek.
266 p'Bitek, Okot 1984
Introduction by G. A. Heron; illustrations
by Frank Horle. London: Heinemann.
267 Idrīs, Yūsuf 1984 Rings of burnished brass.
268 Sepamia, Sepho 1981 A ride on the whirlwind: a novel.
269 Pepetela 1984 Mayombe.
270 Achebe, Chinua & C. L. 1985 African short stories. Includes 'The false
Innes (eds.) prophet' by Sembene Ousmane, 'Certain
winds from the south' by Ama Ata Aidoo,
'The apprentice' by Odun Balogun, 'The
will of Allah' by David Owoyele, 'Civil
peace' by Chinua Achebe, 'The gentlemen
of the jungle' by Jomo Kenyatta, 'The green
leaves' by Grace Ogot, 'Bossy'
by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 'The spider's web'
by Leonard Kibera, 'Minutes of glory' by
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 'An incident in the
Ghobashi household' by Alifa Rifaat, 'A
handful of dates' by Tayeb Salih, 'A
conversation from the third floor' by
Mohamed El-Bisatie, 'Papa, snake & I' by B.
L. Honwana, 'The bridegroom' by Nadine
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Gordimer, 'The betrayal' by Ahmed Essop,
'Protista' by Dambudzo Marechera, 'The
coffee-cart girl' by Ezekiel Mphahlele,
'Snapshots of a wedding' by Bessie Head,
and 'Reflections in a cell' by Mafika Gwala.
271 Rifaat, Alifa 1983 Distant View of a Minaret.
272 Amadi, Elechi 1986 Estrangement.
273 Oguine, Ike 2000 A Squatter's Tale. London: Heinemann.
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African Nobel Prize Winners

Name Country Year Prize
Camus, Albert Algeria 1957 Literature
Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude Algeria 1997 Physics
Al-Sadat, Mohamed Anwar Egypt 1978 Peace
Mahfouz, Naguib Egypt 1988 Literature
Zewail, Ahmed Hassan Egypt 1999 Chemistry
El Baradei, Mohamed Egypt 2005 Peace
Annan, Kofi Ghana 2001 Peace
Maathai, Wangari Kenya 2004 Peace
Soyinka, Wole Nigeria 1986 Literature
Theiler, Max South Africa 1951 Medicine
Luthuli, Albert John South Africa 1960 Peace
Cormack, Alan McLeod South Africa 1979 Medicine
Klug, Aaron South Africa 1982 Chemistry
Tutu, Desmond Mpilu South Africa 1984 Peace
Gordimer, Nadine South Africa 1991 Literature
De Klerk, Frederik Willem South Africa 1993 Peace
Mandela, Nelson South Africa 1993 Peace
Brenner, Sydney South Africa 2002 Medicine
Coetzee, John Maxwell South Africa 2003 Literature
Lessing, Doris Zimbabwe 2007 Literature
Johnson Sirleaf, Ellen Liberia 2011 Peace
Gbowee, Leymah Liberia 2011 Peace
Common Themes in African-American
Literature
African-American literature starts with narratives by slaves in the pre-revolutionary
period focused on freedom and abolition of slavery. The period following the Civil War
until 1919 is dubbed the Reconstruction period. Its themes were influenced by
segregation, lynching, migration and the women’s suffragette movement. The 1920s
saw the Harlem Renaissance and the “flowering of Negro literature,” as James Weldon
Johnson called it. African-American literature since World War II has delved into
modernist high art, black nationalism and postracial identities.

Grisly Narratives of Slavery

The earliest African-American literature was focused on the “indelible stain” of slavery
on American soil. The writers focused on themes of slavery, emphasizing the cruelty,
indignity and the ultimate dehumanization of slaves. They were mostly written by slaves
who had escaped into freedom. Classic slave narratives include the “Narrative of the
Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” by Frederick Douglass and “Incidents in
the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs. Slavery and slave narrative are recurring
themes in African-American literature adopted in the modern times by writers like Toni
Morrison and Alice Walker.

Alienation by Color-Line
“The problem of twentieth century is the problem of color line,” W.E.B.Du Bois wrote in
“The Souls of Black Folk.” African Americans were free from slavery after the Civil War,
but the color line kept them segregated and marginalized. Although the white population
had a conception of “the Negro” as a group, it seemed to have no conception of it as an
individual. Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” is a shining example of this theme. His book is
a cerebral account of a black man who, despite considerable efforts to overcome the
color line, finds himself alienated from both blacks and whites.

The New, Angry Negro

The dramatic upheaval in material condition of African Americans is reflected in the
literature they produced. Rapid industrialization and migration into cities like Chicago
and New York created favorable conditions for a reinvented identity. While the theme of
servility to dignity was always present in African-American literature, the “New Negro
Movement” during the Harlem Renaissance emphasized radicalism verging on militancy
in both politics and arts. Writers saw literature as a tool to bring sociopolitical changes,
an attitude best expressed by W.E.B. Du Bois’ famous declaration, “all Art is
propaganda and ever must be.”

A Journey to Africa
Africa looms large in the imagination of all African-American writers in two ways. Those
who crossed the Atlantic on slave ships brought Africa with them to the American soil.
This Africa survived orally in music and folklore and was later supplemented by writing.
In addition, the descendants of slaves looked at Africa for inspiration and a cure to the
trauma of slavery and a permanent sense of nostalgia for the lost homeland. Alex
Haley's "Roots" is a classic example of the journey-to-Africa theme.