# 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.

## Books

- [Things Fall Apart](https://africantales.net/books/things-fall-apart), Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, 1958
- [Ambiguous Adventure](https://africantales.net/books/ambiguous-adventure), Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Senegal, 1961
- [Arrow of God](https://africantales.net/books/arrow-of-god), Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, 1964
- [Our Sister Killjoy](https://africantales.net/books/our-sister-killjoy), Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghana, 1977
- [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
- [The Famished Road](https://africantales.net/books/the-famished-road), Ben Okri, Nigeria, 1991
- [Allah is Not Obliged](https://africantales.net/books/allah-is-not-obliged), Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivory Coast, 2000
- [Purple Hibiscus](https://africantales.net/books/purple-hibiscus), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2003
- [The Memory of Love](https://africantales.net/books/the-memory-of-love), Aminatta Forna, Sierra Leone, 2010
- [Americanah](https://africantales.net/books/americanah), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, 2013
- [Stay With Me](https://africantales.net/books/stay-with-me), Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Nigeria, 2017

## See also

- [West African literature](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa)
- [West African classics](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/classic)
- [West African plays](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/drama)
- [West African historical fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/historical-fiction)
- [African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/genres/literary-fiction)
- [West African memoirs](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/memoir)
- [West African political fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/political-fiction)
- [West African war fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/war-fiction)

Source: https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/literary-fiction