African books of the 1980s

Writers include J. M. Coetzee, Pepetela, Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Tahar Ben Jelloun and others. Set in or written from Angola, Morocco, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. First published 1980 to 1988.

• Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee, South Africa, 1980
• Mayombe by Pepetela, Angola, 1980
• Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, 1981
• July's People by Nadine Gordimer, South Africa, 1981
• The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Morocco, 1985
• Maps by Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, 1986
• Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe, 1988