1. Achebe, Chinua.  Things Fall Apart.  Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. 0435905252

2. Armah, Ayi K.  Two Thousand Seasons.  Portsmouth, MI: Heinemann, 1973. 0435902180

 3. Armah, Ayi Kwei.  The Beautiful Ones  Are Not Yet Born.  Ghana, West Africa: Heinemann, 1969. 0435900439

4. Barthold, Bonnie J.  Black Time: Fiction of Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. 0300025734

5. Dathorne, O. R.  The Black Mind: a history of African Literature.  Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1974. 0816607192

6. Hughes, Langston.  An African Treasury: articles, essays, stories, poems .  New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1960. OCLC272735

7. Laye, Camara.  The Dark Child.  New York, NY: Noonday Press, 1954. LC54-11726

8. Mandela, Nelson.  Long Walk to Freedom.  Boston, MA: Little Brown & Company, 1995. 0316548189

 9. Ngugi wa Thiong'o.  Petals of Blood.  New York, NY: E.P. Dutton, 1977. 0525485201

10. Niane, D. T.  Sundiata:  An Epic of old Mali.  London, UK: Longmans, 1986. 0582642590

11. Oyono, Ferdinand.  The Old Man and the Medal.  London, UK: Heinemann, 1989. 0435900390

Literature- Africa, Women

 1. Aidoo, Ama Ata.  Our Sister Killjoy: Or, Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint.  Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1991. 0582308453

2. Brown, Lloyd Wellesley.  Women Writers in Black Africa.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981. 0313225400

3. Davies, Carole Boyce.  Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature.  Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1986. 0865430187

 4. Emecheta, Buchi.  The Bride Price. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1995. 0435900001

5. Head, Bessie.  A Question of Power.  Portsmouth, NH:  Heinemann, 1974. 0435907204