West African literary fiction
Writers include Chinua Achebe, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ama Ata Aidoo, Buchi Emecheta, Mariama Bâ and others. Set in or written from Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone. First published 1958 to 2017.
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, 1958
- Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Senegal, 1961
- Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, 1964
- Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghana, 1977
- The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta, Nigeria, 1979
- So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, Senegal, 1979
- The Famished Road by Ben Okri, Nigeria, 1991
- Allah is Not Obliged by Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivory Coast, 2000
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2003
- The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna, Sierra Leone, 2010
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2013
- Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Nigeria, 2017