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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 20,149 copies, 426 reviews	Order: 1
Burning Grass by Cyprian Ekwensi 46 copies, 2 reviews	Order: 2
No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe 1,471 copies, 24 reviews	Order: 3
Zambia Shall Be Free: an Autobiography by Kenneth Kaunda 21 copies	Order: 4
People of the City by Cyprian Ekwensi 100 copies, 1 review	Order: 5
Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams 188 copies, 4 reviews	Order: 6
Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 549 copies, 8 reviews	Order: 7
A Book of African Verse by John Reed 27 copies	Order: 8
A New Book of African Verse by John Reed 9 copies	Order: 8
Modern African Prose by Richard Rive 9 copies	Order: 9
The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano 1,125 copies, 10 reviews	Order: 10
One Man, One Matchet by T. M. Aluko 20 copies, 1 review	Order: 11
The African by William Conton 17 copies	Order: 12
Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti 111 copies, 3 reviews	Order: 13
Quartet: New Voices from South Africa by Richard Rive 4 copies	Order: 14
Origin East Africa : a Makerere anthology by David Cook 6 copies	Order: 15
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe 1,246 copies, 23 reviews	Order: 16
The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 693 copies, 19 reviews	Order: 17
The Imprisonment of Obatala, and other plays by Obotunde Ijimere 20 copies	Order: 18
Lokotown And Other Stories by Cyprian Ekwensi 20 copies, 2 reviews	Order: 19
Child of Two Worlds by R. Mugo Gatheru 23 copies	Order: 20
The Only Son by John Munonye 11 copies, 1 review	Order: 21
The Second Round by Lenrie Peters 10 copies	Order: 22
The Origin of Life & Death: African Creation Myths by Ulli Beier 29 copies	Order: 23
No Easy Task by Aubrey Kachingwe 13 copies, 1 review	Order: 24
The Concubine by Elechi Amadi 142 copies, 3 reviews	Order: 25
Efuru by Flora Nwapa 176 copies, 1 review	Order: 26
The Narrow Path: An African Childhood by Francis Selormey 37 copies	Order: 27
Short East African Plays in English by David Cook 3 copies	Order: 28
Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono 341 copies, 9 reviews	Order: 29
One Man, One Wife by T. M. Aluko 16 copies	Order: 30
A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe 845 copies, 13 reviews	Order: 31
Kinsman and Foreman by T. M. Aluko 11 copies	Order: 32
On Trial for My Country by Stanlake Samkange 32 copies, 1 review	Order: 33
Ten one-act plays by Cosmo Pieterse 8 copies	Order: 34
A Walk in the Night and Other Stories by Alex La Guma 133 copies, 1 review	Order: 35
A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 918 copies, 20 reviews	Order: 36
Satellites by Lenrie Peters 10 copies	Order: 37
Not yet Uhuru: the autobiography of Oginga Odinga by Ajuma Oginga Odinga 37 copies, 1 review	Order: 38
The old Man and the Medal by Ferdinand Oyono 99 copies, 3 reviews	Order: 39
Woman in Her Prime by Asare Konadu 22 copies	Order: 40
The Strange Man by Amu Djoleto 7 copies	Order: 41
Messages: Poems from Ghana by Kofi Awoonor 13 copies	Order: 42
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah 482 copies, 1 review	Order: 43
The Great Ponds by Elechi Amadi 55 copies, 2 reviews	Order: 44
Obi by John Munonye 6 copies	Order: 45
Letters to Martha, and other poems from a South African prison by Dennis Brutus 18 copies	Order: 46
The Black Hermit by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 27 copies	Order: 51
The Afersata by Sahle Sellassie 13 copies, 1 review	Order: 52
Idu by Flora Nwapa 1 copy	Order: 56
Because of Women by Mbella Sonne Dipoko 7 copies	Order: 57
Political Spider: An Anthology of Stories from Black Orpheus by Ulli Beier 11 copies	Order: 58
Rebel by Bediako Asare 10 copies, 1 review	Order: 59
We Killed Mangy Dog & Other Stories by Luís Bernardo Honwana 51 copies, 1 review	Order: 60
Way We Lived (African Writers Series) by Rems Umeasiegbu 7 copies	Order: 61
Labyrinths by Christopher Okigbo 14 copies	Order: 62
God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene 666 copies, 10 reviews	Order: 63
7 South African poets : poems of exile by Cosmo Pieterse 11 copies	Order: 64
The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta 807 copies, 20 reviews	Order: 65
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih 1,609 copies, 47 reviews	Order: 66
Danda (Fontana modern novels) by Nkem Nwankwo 14 copies, 1 review	Order: 67
The Voice by Gabriel Okara 58 copies, 2 reviews	Order: 68
Chief, the Honourable Minister by T. M. Aluko 14 copies	Order: 70
Nocturnes by Léopold Sédar Senghor 14 copies	Order: 71
Selected Poems by Tchicaya U. Tam'Si 5 copies	Order: 72
North African Writing by Len Ortzen 4 copies	Order: 73
Eating Chiefs: Lwo Culture from Lolwe to Malkal by Taban lo Liyong 15 copies	Order: 74
Myths & legends of the Swahili by Jan Knappert 19 copies	Order: 75
Interpreters by Wole Soyinka 321 copies, 5 reviews	Order: 76
King Lazarus: A Novel by Mongo Beti 14 copies, 1 review	Order: 77
Short African plays by Cosmo Pieterse 3 copies	Order: 78
Heirs to the Past by Driss Chraïbi 28 copies	Order: 79
From a Crooked Rib by Nuruddin Farah 108 copies, 4 reviews	Order: 80
The challenge of nationhood: a collection of speeches and writings by Tom Mboya 13 copies	Order: 81
A few nights and days : a novel by Mbella Sonne Dipoko 3 copies	Order: 82
Myths and Legends of the Congo by Jan Knappert 7 copies	Order: 83
Beautiful Feathers by Cyprian Ekwensi 13 copies, 2 reviews	Order: 84
Wand of Noble Wood by Onuora Nzekwu 20 copies	Order: 85
Agatha Moudio's Son by Francis Bebey 21 copies	Order: 86
The Poor Christ of Bomba by Mongo Beti 124 copies, 3 reviews	Order: 88
Obasai and Other Plays by Yulisa Amadu Maddy 6 copies	Order: 89
Frantz Fanon's Uneven Ribs, with Poems, More and More by Taban lo Liyong 8 copies	Order: 90
Blade Among the Boys (African Writers) by Onuora Nzekwu 6 copies	Order: 91
The Money-Order, with White Genesis by Ousmane Sembène 68 copies, 2 reviews	Order: 92
A choice of flowers. Chaguo la maua: an anthology of Swahili love poetry by Jan Knappert 7 copies	Order: 93
Oil Man of Obange (African Writers Series) by John Munonye 12 copies, 1 review	Order: 94
Poems from East Africa by David Cook 28 copies	Order: 96
The Trial of Christopher Okigbo (African Writers Series, 97) by Ali AlʾAmin Mazrui 8 copies	Order: 97
Bound to Violence by Yambo Ouologuem 101 copies	Order: 99
Girls at War by Chinua Achebe 266 copies	Order: 100
Maru by Bessie Head 256 copies, 6 reviews	Order: 101
The Edifice by Kole Omotoso 5 copies	Order: 102
Katchikali (Heinemann African Writers Series) by Lenrie Peters 4 copies	Order: 103
Will to Die (African Writers) by Can Themba 16 copies	Order: 104
The Outcasts (African Writers Series) by Bonnie Lubega 5 copies	Order: 105
French African Verse by John O. Reed 3 copies	Order: 106
Black and White in Love (African Writers) by Mbella Sonne Dipoko 3 copies	Order: 107
This Earth, My Brother by Kofi Awoonor 34 copies, 1 review	Order: 108
Onitsha Market Literature (African Writers Series) by Emmanuel N. Obiechina 5 copies	Order: 109
An Ill-Fated People by Lawrence Vambe 6 copies	Order: 112
A Simple Lust; Selected Poems by Dennis Brutus 49 copies	Order: 115
Another Nigger Dead: Poems by Taban lo Liyong 6 copies	Order: 116
Fate of a Cockroach and Other Plays by Tawfiq Al-Hakim 28 copies	Order: 117
Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane 307 copies, 4 reviews	Order: 119
Beware Soul Brother by Chinua Achebe 49 copies	Order: 120
The Combat by Kole Omotoso 11 copies	Order: 122
No Easy Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela 134 copies	Order: 123
The Marabi Dance by Modikwe Dikobe 29 copies	Order: 124
Concerto for an Exile by Syl Cheney-Coker 2 copies	Order: 126
Robben Island by D.M. Zwelonke 16 copies	Order: 128
Igbo Traditional Verse (African Writers Series) by Romanus N. Egudu 7 copies	Order: 129
His Worshipful Majesty (African Writers Series) by T. M. Aluko 3 copies	Order: 130
The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing 2,164 copies, 73 reviews	Order: 131
Sir Apolo Kagwa Discovers Britain by Ham Mukasa 4 copies, 1 review	Order: 133
African theatre; eight prize-winning plays for radio by Gwyneth Henderson 1 copy	Order: 134
Batouala by René Maran 120 copies, 4 reviews	Order: 135
No Past, No Present, No Future by Yulisa Amadu Maddy 29 copies	Order: 137
The sudden return, and other plays by Martin Owusu 2 copies	Order: 138
The Future Leaders by Mwangi Ruheni 7 copies	Order: 139
Sunset in Biafra by Elechi Amadi 16 copies	Order: 140
Dead Roots by Arthur Nortje 3 copies	Order: 141
Tribal Scars and Other Stories by Ousmane Sembène 48 copies, 2 reviews	Order: 142
Kill Me Quick by Meja Mwangi 42 copies, 1 review	Order: 143
Carcase for Hounds by Meja Mwangi 18 copies	Order: 145
Jagua Nana by Cyprian Ekwensi 108 copies, 1 review	Order: 146
The Horn of My Love by Okot P'Bitek 5 copies	Order: 147
A Question of Power by Bessie Head 382 copies, 11 reviews	Order: 149
Secret lives, and other stories by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 41 copies	Order: 150
A Dancer of Fortune by John Munonye 4 copies	Order: 153
Fragments by Ayi Kwei Armah 67 copies	Order: 154
Why Are We So Blest? by Ayi Kwei Armah 24 copies	Order: 155
The Minister's Daughter by Mwangi Ruheni 5 copies	Order: 156
Warrior King by Sahle Sellassie 6 copies	Order: 163
The Mourned One (African Writers) by Stanlake Samkange 14 copies	Order: 169
Poems of Black Africa by Wole Soyinka 62 copies	Order: 171
Restless City and Christmas Gold, With Other Stories (African Writers Series, No. 172) by Cyprian Ekwensi 4 copies	Order: 172
My Mercedes is bigger than yours by Nkem Nwankwo 40 copies	Order: 173
Xala by Ousmane Sembène 178 copies, 5 reviews	Order: 175
Going Down River Road by Meja Mwangi 44 copies, 4 reviews	Order: 176
Hill of fools by R. L. Peteni 10 copies	Order: 178
Perpetua and the Habit of Unhappiness by Mongo Beti 9 copies	Order: 181
The Collector of Treasures by Bessie Head 169 copies, 4 reviews	Order: 182
The Fisherman's Invocation by Gabriel Okara 6 copies	Order: 183
Survive the Peace (African Writers) by Cyprian Ekwensi 18 copies	Order: 185
The Return: A novel of the Slave Trade in Africa by Yaw M. Boateng 8 copies	Order: 186
Year of the Uprising by Stanlake Samkange 10 copies, 1 review	Order: 190
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 46 copies, 1 review	Order: 191
Anthology of Swahili poetry by Ali Jahadmy 4 copies	Order: 192
Hare and Hornbill by Okot P'Bitek 6 copies	Order: 193
The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah 55 copies	Order: 194
Bridge to a Wedding by John Munonye 5 copies	Order: 195
Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral by Amílcar Cabral 60 copies	Order: 198
Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 384 copies, 6 reviews	Order: 200
Mhudi by Sol T. Plaatje 85 copies, 1 review	Order: 201
The Real Life of Domingos Xavier by José Luandino Vieira 22 copies	Order: 202
The Journey Within (African Writers Series ; 206) by I.N.C. Aniebo 7 copies	Order: 206
The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera 167 copies	Order: 207
The Slave by Elechi Amadi 13 copies	Order: 210
Toads of War (African Writers Series) by Eddie Iroh 7 copies	Order: 213
Remember Ruben by Mongo Beti 14 copies	Order: 214
I Write What I Like: Selected Writings by Steve Biko 364 copies, 2 reviews	Order: 217
Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah 121 copies, 2 reviews	Order: 218
Serowe: Village of the Rain-Wind (African Writers Series) by Bessie Head 42 copies, 2 reviews	Order: 220
The Graveyard Also Has Teeth: With Concerto for an Exile: Poems by Syl Cheney-Coker 8 copies	Order: 221
South African People's Plays: Ons Phola Hi (African Writers Series) by Robert M. Kavanagh 7 copies	Order: 224
Fountain and Tomb by Naguib Mahfouz 935 copies, 21 reviews	Order: 225
Sweet and Sour Milk by Nuruddin Farah 101 copies	Order: 226
Chaka by Thomas Mofolo 215 copies, 6 reviews	Order: 229
Poets to the People: South African Freedom Poems (African Writers Series) by Barry Fienberg 10 copies	Order: 230
The White Man of God (African Writers Series) by Kenjo Wan Jumbam 15 copies, 1 review	Order: 231
Anthem of the Decades: A Zulu Epic (African Writers Series) by Mazisi Kunene 9 copies	Order: 234
Of Chameleons and Gods by Jack Mapanje 26 copies	Order: 236
Black Sunlight by Dambudzo Marechera 51 copies, 1 review	Order: 237
Selected Poetry by Lenrie Peters 4 copies	Order: 238
The Slums (African Writers Series) by Thomas Akare 12 copies	Order: 241
I Will Marry When I Want by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 77 copies, 2 reviews	Order: 246
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ 1,293 copies, 42 reviews	Order: 248
The Last of the Empire: A Senegalese Novel by Ousmane Sembène 30 copies	Order: 250
Sardines by Nuruddin Farah 82 copies, 1 review	Order: 252
Of Wives, Talismans and the Dead by I.N.C. Aniebo 5 copies	Order: 253
Stories from Central & Southern Africa (African Writers Series) by Paul A. Scanlon 15 copies	Order: 254
Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in Africa by Charlotte Bruner 74 copies	Order: 256
And Night Fell: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in South Africa by Molefe Pheto 5 copies	Order: 258
Harvest of Our Dreams (African writers series) by Kofi Anyidoho 11 copies	Order: 261
The Seasons of Thomas Tebo by John Nagenda 8 copies	Order: 262
To Every Birth Its Blood by Mongane Serote 38 copies	Order: 263
Muntu (African Writers Series) by Joe De Graft 1 copy	Order: 264
Song of Lawino / Song of Ocol by Okot P'Bitek 141 copies, 1 review	Order: 266
A ride on the whirlwind by Sydney Sipho Sepamla 18 copies	Order: 268
African Short Stories by Chinua Achebe 143 copies, 2 reviews	Order: 270
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat 188 copies, 3 reviews	Order: 271
Estrangement by Elechi Amadi 19 copies	Order: 272
A Squatter's Tale by Ike Oguine 19 copies	Order: 273
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe 1,090 copies, 15 reviews	Order:
Arrows of Rain by Okey Ndibe 70 copies, 3 reviews	Order:
As the Crow Flies by Veronique Tadjo 37 copies, 1 review	Order:
Black Docker by Ousmane Sembène 37 copies	Order:
The Blood of Peace and Other Poems (African Writers Series) by Tanure Ojaide 9 copies	Order:
Bones by Chenjerai Hove 59 copies, 1 review	Order:
Can We Talk and Other Stories (African Writers) by Shimmer Chinodya 14 copies	Order:
Cape Town Coolie (African Writers Series) by Reshard Gool 4 copies	Order:
The Cardinals by Bessie Head 42 copies, 1 review	Order:
The case of the socialist witchdoctor and other stories by Hama Tuma 14 copies	Order:
Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo 294 copies, 9 reviews	Order:
The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison (African Writers Series) by Jack Mapanje 21 copies	Order:
The Clothes of Nakedness by Benjamin Kwakye 17 copies	Order:
Coming Home and Other Stories by Farida Karodia 12 copies, 1 review	Order:
A Cowrie of Hope (African Writers) by Binwell Sinyangwe 42 copies, 2 reviews	Order:
Crimes of Conscience by Nadine Gordimer 50 copies	Order:
The Crippled Dancer (African Writers Series) by T. Obinkaram Echewa 7 copies	Order:
Destination Biafra by Buchi Emecheta 39 copies, 1 review	Order:
Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 44 copies, 1 review	Order:
A Duty of Memory (African Writers Series) by W.P.B. Botha 8 copies, 1 review	Order:
Echoing Silences by Alexander Kanengoni 10 copies	Order:
The Enemy Within by Steve Jacobs 8 copies	Order:
Gathering seaweed: African prison writing by Jack Mapanje 12 copies	Order:
The Girl Who Can by Ama Ata Aidoo 30 copies	Order:
The Grub Hunter (Heinemann African Writers Series) by Amair Taaj Al-Sirr Amir Tag Elsir 16 copies, 4 reviews	Order:
Harvest of Thorns by Shimmer Chinodya 80 copies, 1 review	Order:
Head Above Water by Buchi Emecheta 63 copies, 2 reviews	Order:
The Heinemann Book of African Women's Writing (African Writers Series) by Charlotte Bruner 33 copies	Order:
Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories by Chinua Achebe 55 copies	Order:
The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories (African Writers) by Denis Hirson 29 copies	Order:
The Housemaid by Amma Darko 22 copies, 1 review	Order:
In the Ditch by Buchi Emecheta 76 copies, 1 review	Order:
In the Fog of the Seasons' End by Alex La Guma 90 copies	Order:
Jesus is Indian (African Writers Series) by Agnes Sam 13 copies	Order:
Kicking Tongues by Karen King-Aribisala 20 copies	Order:
Labyrinths With Path of Thunder by Christopher Okigbo 27 copies	Order:
The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar by Syl Cheney-Coker 27 copies	Order:
Lemona's Tale by Ken Saro-Wiwa 26 copies, 2 reviews	Order:
Loukoum: The 'Little Prince' of Belleville (African Writers Series) by Calixthe Beyala 27 copies	Order:
Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars by B. Kojo Laing 8 copies	Order:
Matigari by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 258 copies, 5 reviews	Order:
Mema (African Writers) by Daniel Mengara 26 copies, 1 review	Order:
The New Tribe by Buchi Emecheta 19 copies	Order:
Niiwam and Taaw by Ousmane Sembene 26 copies, 1 review	Order:
Opening Spaces: An Anthology of Contemporary African Women's Writing by Yvonne Vera 33 copies	Order:
The Purple Violet of Oshaantu by Neshani Andreas 52 copies, 4 reviews	Order:
The Return of the Water Spirit (African Writers Series) by Pepetela 46 copies, 1 review	Order:
Search Sweet Country by Kojo Laing 87 copies, 2 reviews	Order:
Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta 390 copies, 6 reviews	Order:
Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez (African Writers) by Sony Lab'ou Tansi 39 copies, 2 reviews	Order:
Shadows (African Writers Series) by Chenjerai Hove 19 copies	Order:
A Shattering of Silence (African Writers Series) by Farida Karodia 28 copies	Order:
Smouldering Charcoal (African Writers Series) by Tiyambe Zeleza 26 copies, 3 reviews	Order:
Sterile Sky (Heinemann African Writers Series) by Mr E.E. Sule 6 copies	Order:
Tales of Tenderness and Power (African Writers Series) by Bessie Head 43 copies, 1 review	Order:
Tribaliks: Contemporary Congolese Stories by Henri Lopes 13 copies	Order:
The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe 62 copies	Order:
Upon This Mountain (African Writers Series) by Timothy Wangusa 19 copies, 1 review	Order:
Voices Made Night (African Writers Series) by Mia Couto 65 copies, 1 review	Order:
Wantok by W.P.B. Botha 3 copies	Order:
When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head 343 copies, 6 reviews	Order:
Whispers in the Wings: Poems (African Writers Series) by Frank M Chipasula 4 copies	Order:
A Woman Alone by Bessie Head 47 copies	Order:
Woman of the Aeroplanes by Kojo Laing 26 copies	Order:
Wounding Words: A Woman's Journal in Tunisia (African Writers Series) by Evelyne Accad 15 copies	Order:
Yaka by Pepetela 24 copies	Order:
Your Name Shall Be Tanga (African Writers Series) by Calixthe Beyala 40 copies, 1 review	Order:

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