Books on Selected Authors
Comparative works
- Ahmad, Hena. Postnational feminisms : postcolonial identities and cosmopolitanism in the works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai. (New York : Peter Lang, c2010)
-- See also: E-book
- Breidlid, Anders. Resistance and consciousness in Kenya and South Africa : subalternity and representation in the novels of Ngugi wa Thiongó and Alex La Guma. (Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, c2002)
- Emerging African voices : a study of contemporary African literature. Edited by Walter P. Collins, III. (Amherst, NY : Cambria Press, c2010)
--Chapters on Abani, Adichie, Diome, Habila, Ifowodo, Iweala, Mpe, Okesipe, Oyeyemi, and Soyinka.
- George, Olakunle. Relocating agency : modernity and African letters. (Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003)
--Chapters on Achebe, Fagunwa, Soyinka, and Tutuola.
--See also: E-book
- Griswold, Wendy. Bearing witness : Readers, writers, and the novel in Nigeria. (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000)
- Larson, Charles R. The ordeal of the African writer. (London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2001)
--Focus on the lives and works of Amos Tutuola, Cyprian Ekwensi, Veronique Tadjo, Elinor Sisulu, Yvonne Vera, Camara Laye, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and others.
- Lindfors, Bernth. Early West African writers : Amos Tutuola, Cyprian Ekwensi & Ayi Kwei Armah. (Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2010)
- Maja-Pearce, Adewale. A mask dancing : Nigerian novelists of the eighties. (London ; New York : Hans Zell Publishers, 1992)
- O'Brien, Sara Talis and Renée T. Schatteman. Voices from the continent : a curriculum guide to selected Southern African literature. (Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2005)
-- Focus on selected works of Njabulo Ndebele, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Sindiwe Magona.
- Omotoso, Kole. Achebe or Soyinka? : a study in contrasts. (Northvale, N.J. ; London : Hans Zell Publishers, 1996)
- Postcolonial literatures : Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott. Edited by Michael Parker and Roger Starkey. (New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995)
- Quayson, Ato. Strategic transformations in Nigerian writing : orality & history in the work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka & Ben Okri. (Oxford : J. Currey ; Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1997)
- Zulfiqar, Sadia. African women writers and the politics of gender. (Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016)
-- Focus on selected works by Mariama Bâ, Leila Aboulela, Buchi Emecheta, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, & Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Abani
Achebe
- Achebe, Chinua. Conversations with Chinua Achebe. Edited by Bernth Lindfors. (Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi, 1997)
- Achebe, Chinua. The education of a British-protected child : essays. (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009)
- Achebe, Chinua. Home and exile. (New York : Oxford University Press, 2000)
- Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart : authoritative text, contexts and criticism. Edited by Francis Abiola Irele. (New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2009)
- Achebe's women : imagism and power. Edited by Helen Chukwuma. (Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2012)
- Blazing the path : fifty years of Things Fall Apart. Edited by Chima Anyadike and Kehinde A. Ayoola. (Ibadan, Nigeria : HEBN Publishers, 2012)
- The Chinua Achebe encyclopedia. Edited by M. Keith Booker. (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003)
- Chinua Achebe's legacy : illuminations from Africa. E-book. Edited by James Ogude. (Pretoria, South Africa : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2015)
- Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart : 1958-2008. Cross/cultures ; 137. Edited by David Whittaker. (Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011)
-- See also: E-book
- Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart : a casebook. Edited by Isidore Okpewho. (Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003)
- Egejuru, Phanuel Akubueze. Chinua Achebe : pure and simple, an oral biography. (Lagos, Nigeria : Malthouse Press, 2002)
- Emenyo̲nu, Ernest and Charles E. Nnolim. Remembering a legend : Chinua Achebe. E-book. (New York [New York] ; Lagos [Nigeria] ; London [England] : African Heritage Press, 2014)
-- See also: Print copy
- Emerging perspectives on Chinua Achebe. 2 vols. Edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu. (Trenton NJ : Africa World Press, c2004)
- Ezenwa-Ohaeto. Chinua Achebe : a biography. (Oxford : James Currey ; Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1997)
- Illuminations on Chinua Achebe : the art of resistance. Edited by: Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo & Herbert G. Ruffin II. (Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2017])
- Lindfors, Bernth. Early Achebe. (Trenton NJ : Africa World Press, 2009)
- Lynn, Thomas Jay.: Chinua Achebe and the politics of narration : envisioning language. ([Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017])
- Mezu, Rose Ure. Chinua Achebe : the man and his works. (London : Adonis & Libby Pub.,Ltd., 2006)
-- See also: E-book
- Morrison, Jago. Chinua Achebe. E-book. Contemporary world writers. (Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2014)
- Ochiagha, Terri. Achebe and friends at Umuahia : the making of a literary elite. (Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2015)
- Ogbaa, Kalu. Understanding Things fall apart : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents. (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999)
- Ogede, Ode. Achebe's things fall apart : a reader's guide. Continuum reader's guides. (London : Continuum, 2007)
- Okechukwu, Chinwe. Achebe the orator : the art of persuasion in Chinua Achebe's novels. (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001)
- Sallah, Tijan M. and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Chinua Achebe, teacher of light : a biography. (Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2003)
Armah
- Critical perspectives on Ayi Kwei Armah. Edited by Derek Wright. ([Washington, D.C.] : Three Continents Press, c1992)
- Fraser, Robert. The novels of Ayi Kwei Armah : a study in polemical fiction. (London : Heinemann, 1980)
- Lazarus, Neil. Resistance in postcolonial African fiction. (New Haven : Yale University Press, c1990)
- Ogede, Ode. Ayi Kwei Armah, radical iconoclast : pitting imaginary worlds against the actual (Athens : Ohio University Press, c2000)
- Wright, Derek. Ayi Kwei Armah's Africa : the sources of his fiction. (London ; New York : Hans Zell Publishers, c1989)
- Yankson, Kofi E. Ayi Kwei Armah's novels. (Accra : [s.n.], 1994)
Dangarembga
Gordimer
- Brahimi, Denise. Nadine Gordimer : weaving together fiction, women and politics. (Cape Town : UCT Press, 2012)
-- See also: E-book
- Clingman, Stephen. The novels of Nadine Gordimer : history from the inside. 2nd ed. (Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1992)
-- See also: 1986 ed.
- Head, Dominic. Nadine Gordimer. ([England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994)
- Nadine Gordimer : a bibliography of primary and secondary sources, 1937-1992. Compiled by Dorothy Driver ... [et al.] ; with an introduction by Dorothy Driver. (London ; New Jersey : H. Zell, 1994)
-- See also: 1993 ed.
- Nadine Gordimer's Burger's daughter : a casebook. Edited by Judie Newman. (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003)
- Roberts, Ronald Suresh. No cold kitchen : a biography of Nadine Gordimer. (Johannesburg, South Africa : STE Publishers : [Distributed by] Thorold's Africana Books, 2005)
- Temple-Thurston, Barbara. Nadine Gordimer revisited. Twayne's world authors series. (New York : Twayne Publishers, 1999)
-- See also: E-book
- Wagner, Kathrin M. Rereading Nadine Gordimer. (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1994)
- A Writing life : celebrating Nadine Gordimer. Edited by Andries Walter Oliphant ; photographs by David Goldblatt. (London ; New York : Viking, 1998)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Cook, David and & Michael Okenimkpe. Ngugi wa Thiong'o : an exploration of his writings. 2nd ed. (Oxford : J. Currey ; Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, 1997)
- Critical essays on Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo. Edited by Peter Nazareth. (New York : Twayne Publishers, c2000)
- Gikandi, Simon. Ngugi wa Thiong’o. (Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2000)
-- See also: E-book
- Lovesey, Oliver. Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo. Twayne's world authors series. (New York : Twayne Publishers, c2000.
-- See also: E-book
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o speaks : interviews with the Kenyan writer. Edited by Reinhard Sander & Bernth Lindfors ; with the assistance of Lynette Cintrón. (Oxford : James Currey ; Nairobi [Kenya] : EAEP ; [Trenton, NJ] : Africa World Press, 2006)
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo : text and contexts. Edited by Charles Cantalupo. (Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c1995)
- Ogude, James. Ngugi's novels and African history : narrating the nation. (London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999)
-- See also: E-book
- Sicherman, Carol. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the making of a rebel : a source book in Kenyan literature and resistance. (London ; New York : H. Zell Publishers, 1990)
- The World of Ngūgī wa Thiong'o. Edited by Charles Cantalupo. (Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, Inc., c1995)
Tutuola
Vera