Kola's List of 100 Plus Black Authors of the Twentieth Century (Fiction, Poetry & Drama)

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KOLA'S LIST OF 100 PLUS BLACK AUTHORS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (FICTION,
PEOTRY & DRAMA)

Africa

Cameroon

  * Mongo Beti             King Lazarus
  * Mbella S. Dipoko       A Few Nights and Days
  * Ferdinand Oyono        Houseboy

Gambia

  * Lenrie Peters          Selected Poetry

Ghana

  * Kojo Laing             Godhorse (Poetry)
  * bediako Asare          Rebel
  * Asare Konadu           A Woman in her Prime
  * Ayi Kwei Armah         Why Are We So Blest
                           The Healers
                           The Beautyful Ones are not Yet Born
  * Martin Owusu           The Sudden Return & Other Plays
  * A.W.Kayper-Mensah      The Drummer in Our Times
  * Ama Ata Aidoo          Dilemma of a Ghost

Kenya

  * Ngugi Wa Thiong'O      Matigari
                           The River Between
                           Weep Not, Child
                           A Grain of Wheat
                           Secret Lives
  * Naina wa Kinyatti      Thunder from the Mountains

Malawi

  * Jack Mpanje            The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu
                                 Prison(Poetry)

Nigeria

  * Chinua Achebe          Things Fall Apart
                           No Longer at Ease
                           Arrow of God
                           A Man of the People
                           Anthilis of the Savannah
                           Girls at War

  * Buchi Emecheta         The Family
                           The Joys of Motherhood
                           The Bride Price
                           Second Class Citizen
                           Double Yoke
                           The Rape of Shavi
                           The Slave Girl
                           Kehinde
  * Flora Nwapa
                           Never Again
                           One is Enough
                           Women are Different
                           Efuru
                           Idu
                           Wives and other stories
                           This is Lagos & other stories
  * T.M.Aluko              His worshipful Majesty
                           One …