This research guide contains citations for print and electronic resources available at Columbia University in support of a Spring 2018 course on "The Novel in Africa". The focus of this bibliographic guide is African literature in English.
With a few exceptions, all books listed here are located on campus and can be checked out from the general stacks of Butler Library or consulted in the African Studies Reading Room, 607 Butler Library.
For a more global perspective, see also: African Diaspora & African Literatures guide to resources at Columbia.
Thomas Mofolo, Chaka. (Lesotho, 1931 translation,1981)
--See also: E-text (1981)
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart . (Nigeria, 1996)
-- See also: E-text (1962)
-- See other editions: 2009 Norton ed. ; 2001 ; 1994 ; 1992 ; 1983 ; 1959
Cyprian Ekwensi, People of the City. (Nigeria, 1968)
-- See other editions: 1963
-- See also: E-text (1963)
Amos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town. (Nigeria, 1953)
-- See other editions: 1952 ; 1961 ; 1970 ; 1984
Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. (Ghana, 1988)
--See other editions: 1968
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Matigari. (Kenya, 1990)
-- See other editions: 1987, 1989 ; 1998
Nadine Gordimer, July's People. (South Africa, 1981)
-- See other editions: 1982
Yvonne Vera, Without a Name. (Zimbabwe, 1994)
-- See other editions: 1995 ; 2002 (with Under the Tongue )
-- See also: E-text (1994)
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions . (Zimbabwe, 1988, 2001)
-- See other editions: 1989 ; 2004
Chris Abani, GraceLand . (Nigeria, 2004)