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  • Petals of Blood

    Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    Hardcover (Heinemann International Literature and Textbooks, Sept. 10, 1986)
    Ranging back and forth between satire, metaphor and stark realism, Ngugi unfolds a tangible landscape both beautiful and horrfying, as tribalism and village life are manipulated in the name of progress by the cynical bureaucrats.

  • The Gold Diggers

    Kwasi Koranteng, Pauline King

    Paperback (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 1994)
    After Inspector Kanjaga accepts an assignment to stop a gang of gold thieves, he learns the previous four men assigned to the case have all died.

  • Second Class Citizen

    Buchi Emecheta

    Paperback (Gardners Books, Dec. 31, 1993)
    Adah's desire to write is pitted against the forces of an egotistical and unfeeling husband and a largely indifferent white society.

  • Masquerade Time

    Cyprian Ekwensi

    Paperback (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 1994)
    Andy, a young African American living in Nigeria, accompanies his friend Ihanyi to a traditional masquerade, even though Ihanyi was told to tell no one about it, and it is dangerous because there is often fighting
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  • The Picture That Came Alive

    Hugh Lewin

    Paperback (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 1994)
    Thoko, a young South African girl, describes how her father secretly kept a picture of a celebrated political prisoner whose name is not mentioned but who resembles Nelson Mandela, and tells of the excitement when he was freed after twenty-six years and one day passed through her village.Thoko, a South African girl, describes her father's picture of a political prisoner who resembles Nelson Mandela, and tells how he was freed and one day passed through her village
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  • No Easy Walk to Freedom

    Nelson Mandela

    Paperback (Heinemann, Dec. 17, 1986)
    This collection of Nelson Mandela's articles, speeches, letters from underground, and transcripts from the trials in which he was accused vividly illustrates his magnetic attraction as Africa's foremost campaigner for freedom.

  • Innocent Prisoner

    Kwasi Koranteng, Martin Salisbury

    Paperback (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 1994)
    When cocaine is discovered in his suitcase by airport security, Brakwa must find out who put it there in order to prove his innocence
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  • The Old Man and the Rabbit

    Tracey Lloyd, Joanna Williams

    Paperback (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 1994)
    Juma gets an idea on how to raise money to pay the baker
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  • The Bride Price

    Buchi Emecheta

    Hardcover (Heinemann, June 1, 1996)
    A novel by a Nigerian-born author which explores the constraints of a tradition under which women are defined in purely monetary terms. When Aku-nna and her family are inherited by her uncle, who values her only for the high bride-price she is expected to fetch, she defies convention and society.

  • Things Fall Apart

    Chinua Achebe

    Paperback (Heinemann (Txt), June 15, 1986)
    The story of Okonkwo, an important man in the Obi tribe, in the days when white men were first appearing on the scene. This novel tells of the series of events by which Okonkwo, through his pride and his fears, becomes exiled from the tribe.

  • Katchikali

    Lenrie Peters

    Paperback (Heinemann, )
    Text: English, Arabic (translation)

  • Frightened Thief

    Amu Djoleto

    Paperback (Chelsea House Pub, )
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