Peter Abraham's A wreath for Udomo -- Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart -- Ayi Kwei Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born -- Mariama Bā's So long a letter -- Driss Chraibi's Mother comes of age -- Lindsey Collen's The rape of Sita -- Maryse Conde's Segu -- Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions -- Modikwe Dikobe's The Marabi dance -- Buchi Emecheta's The joys of motherhood -- Buchi Emecheta's The slave girl -- Nuruddin Farah's Gifts -- Elsa Joubert's Poppie Nongena -- J. Nozipo Maraire's Zensele : letters to my daughter -- Meja Mwangi's Going down River Road -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat -- Djibril TAmsir Niane's Sundiata -- Flora Nwapa's Efuru -- Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy -- Tayeb Salih's Season of migration to the north -- Ousmane Sembene's God's bits of wood -- Wole Soyinka's Ake : the years of childhood -- Moyez G. Vassanji's The gunny sack -- Paul Tiyambe Zeleza's Smouldering charcoal.