African Writers Series 
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Description: The collection covers the whole historical range of modern African fiction, from early pioneering novels by black African authors to later masterpieces. Contains the full text of 66 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including: Sol Plaatje's Mhudi (1930; published in the AWS in 1978); Peter Abrahams's Mine Boy (1946; AWS 1963); Achebe's Things Fall Apart (AWS No. 1, 1962); Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1969); Bessie Head's A Question of Power (1974), Dambudzo Marechera's The House of Hunger (1978), and the last two volumes published in the print series: Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes and Daniel Mengara's Mema (both October 2003).
In addition to prose fiction, the collection includes some of the most important works of African poetry, including: Christopher Okigbo's Labyrinths (1976); Okot p'Bitek's Song of Lawino which has been described as the most influential African poem of the 1960s; the works of Dennis Brutus, Taban lo Liyong and Jack Mapanje, and Mazisi Kunene's epic poem on the rise of the Zulu empire, Emperor Shaka the Great (1979). Full details of the works currently included in the collection are given in the bibliography .
A wide geographic range is also represented: most of the works in the Series come from English-speaking countries in Western, Southern and Eastern Africa, but there are also a number of volumes translated from French, Portuguese, Zulu, Swahili, Acoli, Sesotho, Afrikaans, Luganda and Arabic.
Coverage: Various Dates
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African & Middle East Studies
Gender, Minority Studies & Anthropology
Literature & Language
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