African political fiction
Writers include Seydou Badian, Ousmane Sembène, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ahmadou Kourouma and others. Set in or written from Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Senegal and others. First published 1957 to 2006.
- Caught in The Storm by Seydou Badian, Mali, 1957
- God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 1960
- 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
- Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya, 1977
- Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee, South Africa, 1980
- July's People by Nadine Gordimer, South Africa, 1981
- In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar, Libya, 2006