# African books of the 1970s

Writers include Nuruddin Farah, Bessie Head, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Mohamed Choukri, Wole Soyinka and others. Set in or written from Botswana, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Morocco and others. First published 1970 to 1979.

## Books

- [From a Crooked Rib](https://africantales.net/books/from-a-crooked-rib), Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, 1970
- [Maru](https://africantales.net/books/maru), Bessie Head, Botswana, 1971
- [The Fortunes of Wangrin](https://africantales.net/books/the-fortunes-of-wangrin), Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Mali, 1973
- [For Bread Alone](https://africantales.net/books/for-bread-alone), Mohamed Choukri, Morocco, 1973
- [Death and the King's Horseman](https://africantales.net/books/death-and-the-king-s-horseman), Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, 1975
- [Woman at Point Zero](https://africantales.net/books/woman-at-point-zero), Nawal El Saadawi, Egypt, 1975
- [Our Sister Killjoy](https://africantales.net/books/our-sister-killjoy), Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghana, 1977
- [Petals of Blood](https://africantales.net/books/petals-of-blood), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya, 1977
- [The House of Hunger](https://africantales.net/books/the-house-of-hunger), Dambudzo Marechera, Zimbabwe, 1978
- [The Joys of Motherhood](https://africantales.net/books/the-joys-of-motherhood), Buchi Emecheta, Nigeria, 1979
- [So Long a Letter](https://africantales.net/books/so-long-a-letter), Mariama Bâ, Senegal, 1979

Source: https://africantales.net/decades/1970s