African books of the 1960s

Writers include Ousmane Sembène, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Tayeb Salih and others. Set in or written from Botswana, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and others. First published 1960 to 1968.

• God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 1960
• Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Senegal, 1961
• Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, 1964
• Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya, 1964
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, Sudan, 1966
• Song of Lawino by Okot p'Bitek, Uganda, 1966
• A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya, 1967
• The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ghana, 1968
• The Suns of Independence by Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivory Coast, 1968
• When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head, Botswana, 1968