# 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.

## Books

- [Waiting for the Barbarians](https://africantales.net/books/waiting-for-the-barbarians), J. M. Coetzee, South Africa, 1980
- [Mayombe](https://africantales.net/books/mayombe), Pepetela, Angola, 1980
- [Aké: The Years of Childhood](https://africantales.net/books/ake-the-years-of-childhood), Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, 1981
- [July's People](https://africantales.net/books/july-s-people), Nadine Gordimer, South Africa, 1981
- [The Sand Child](https://africantales.net/books/the-sand-child), Tahar Ben Jelloun, Morocco, 1985
- [Maps](https://africantales.net/books/maps), Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, 1986
- [Nervous Conditions](https://africantales.net/books/nervous-conditions), Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe, 1988

Source: https://africantales.net/decades/1980s