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[Editor's note: The entries below should be read in the
following way: first name and surname. Then the
(supposed) "country of origin", the title and the
publisher at the end. Those entries with ** are
included in the List of the "Top Twelve Books".]


Here is the full list (from
http://www.zibf.org/wordfiles/ABBFinalList.htm).

AFRICA'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Final list of 100 titles announced by the panel of
judges in Accra, 19 February 2002.

Please note that this list may contain errors of
attribution of originating publisher or country,
incorrect transliteration, corrupted special characters
in non-English words and so forth; any suggested
corrections are welcomed.


_Literature for Children_

**Asare, Meshack; Ghana;Sosu's Call;Kane/Miller Book
Publishers

Al-Homi, Hayam Abbas;Egypt;Adventures of a
Breadth;Atfalna

Mungoshi, Charles;Zimbabwe;Stories from a Shona
Childood;Baobab

Tadjo, Veronique;Cote d'Ivorie;Mamy Watta et le
monstre;NEI


_Creative Writing_

**Achebe, Chinua;Nigeria;Things Fall Apart;Heinemann

Achebe, Chinua;Nigeria;Arrow of God;Heinemann

Al Ghitani, Gamal; Egypt;Zayni Barakat; GEBO

Almeida, Germano de;Cape Verde;O testamento do Sr.
Nepomuceno da Silva Araujo;Caminho

Armah, Ayi Kwei;Ghana;The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet
Born;Heinemann

**Ba, Mariama;Senegal;Une si longue letter (So Long a
Letter);NEA

Ben Jelloun, Tahar;Morocco;La Nuit Sacree;Seuil

Beti, Mungo;Cameroon;Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba;Presence
Africaine

Brink, Andre;S. Africa;A Dry White Season;Penguin

Bugul, Ken;Senegal;Riwan;Presence Africaine

Cheney-Coker, Syl;Sierra Leone;The Last Harmattan of
Alusine Dunbar;Heinemann

Chraibi, Driss;Morocco;Le Passe Simple;Gallimard

Coetzee, J.M; S. Africa;Life and Times of Michael
K.;Secker & Warburg

**Couto, Mia;Mozambique;Terra Sonambula;Ed. Caminho

Dadié, Bernard; Cote d'Ivoire;Climbié; Editions Segiers

**Dangarembga, Tsitsi;Zimbabwe;Nervous
Conditions;Women's Press and Seal Press

Dib, Mohammed; Algeria;Algerie:  La Grande Maison,
L'Incendie, Le Métier à tisser;Le Seuil

Diop, Boubacar Boris;Senegal;Murambi ou le livre des
ossements;Stock

**Djebar, Assia;Algeria;L'Armour la Fantasia;J. C.
Latties

El Saadawi, Nawal;Egypt;Woman at Point Zero;Zed Books

Emecheta, Buchi;Nigeria;The Joys of Motherhood;Alison
and Busby

Farah, Nuruddin; Somalia;Maps; Pan Books

Gordimer, Nadine;S. Africa;Burgher's Daughter;Jonathan
Cape

Head, Bessie;S. African;A Question of Power;Heinemann

Honwana, Bernardo;Mozambique;Nos matamos o cao tinhoso
(We Killed Mangy Dog);Academica

Hove, Chenjerai;Zimbabwe;Bones;Baobab

Isegawa, Moses; Uganda;Abessijnse Kronieken (Abyssinian
Chronicles);Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij

Jordan, Archibald Campbell;S. Africa;Die Swerdjare van
Poppie Nongena;Tafelberg

Kane, Cheikh Hamidou;Senegal;L'aventure ambigue
Ambiguous Adventure);Editions Juillard

Kossa, Ungulani ba ka;Mozambique;Ualalapi;AEMO

Kourouma, Agmadou;Cote d'Ivoire;Les Solels des
Independances;Le Seuil

Laye, Camara;Guinea;L'Enfant noir;Plon

**Mahfouz, Naguib;Egypt;The Cairo Trilogy;Maktabet Misr

Marechera, Dambudzo;Zimbabwe;House of Hunger;Heinemann

**Mofolo, Thomas;Lesotho;Chaka;Morija Sesuto Book Depot

Monenembo, Tierno;Guinea;Un Attieke pour Elgass;Le
Seuil

Nyembezi, Sibusiso;S. Africa;Inkinnsela
yaseMgungundlovu;Shuter and Shooter

Okri, Ben;Nigeria;The Famished Road;Spectrum
Books/Jonathan Cape

Oyono, Ferdinand;Cameroon;Le vieux negre et la medaille
(The Old Man and the Medal);Editions Juillard

Paton, Alan;S. Africa;Cry the Beloved Country;Cape

Pepetela,;Angola;A Geracao da Utopia;Dom Quixote

Salih el Tayeb;Sudan;Season of Migration to the North;

Sassine, Williams;Guinea;Le jeune Homme de
sable;Presence Africane

Sembene, Ousmane;Senegal;Les outs de bois de Dieu
(God's Bits of Wood);Le livre contemporain

Sony Labou Tansi;Congo B.;La Vie et demie;Seuil

Sow Fall, Aminata;Senegal;La Greve des Battus (The
Beggar's Strike);Nouvelles Editions Africains

Tutuola, Amos;Nigeria;The Palm Wine Drinkard and his
dead pal-wine tapster in the Deads Town;Faber

Vera, Yvonne;Zimbabwe;Butterfly Burning;Baobab

Vieira, Luandino ;Mozambique;Nos os de Makulusu;

Wa Thiongo Ngugi;Kenya;Caitani Mutharabai-ni (Devil On
The Cross);

**Wa Thiongo, Ngugi;Kenya;A Grain of Wheat;Heinemann

Yacine, Kateb;Algeria;Nedjma;Le Seuil

Aidoo, Ama Ata;Ghana;Anowa;Longmans

Bâ, Amadou Hampâté; Mali;L'étrange destin de Wangrin
(Fortunes of Wangrin);Union generale d'editions

Craveirinha, Jose;Mozambique;Karingana ua
Karingana;Academica

Diop, Birago;Senegal;Les Contes d'Amadou
Koumba;Presence Africaine

El Adnoody, Abdell Rahman;Egypt;Death on the
Asphalt;Atlas

Fagunwa, D.O.; Nigeria;Ogboju Ode Nimu Igbo Irunmale.
(A Forest of Thousand Deamons); Nelson

Fugard, Athol;S. Africa;The Blood Knot;Simondium
Publishers

Magona, Sindiwe;S. Africa;Living, Loving and Lying
Awake at Night;David Philip

Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo;S. Africa;Indaba, My
Children;Blue Crane Books

Niane, Djibril Tamsir;Senegal;Soundjata ou l'epopee
mandingue;Presence Africaine

Okigbo, Christopher;Nigeria;Labyrinths;Heinemann

P'Bitek, Okot;Uganda;Song of Lawino;EAPH

**Senghor, Leopold Sedar;Senegal;Oeuvre Poetique;Le
Seuil

Serote, Mongane;S. Africa;Third World Express;David
Philip

Shaaban, Robert Bin;Tanzania;Utenzi wa vita vya uhuru
(The War of Freedom);EALB

Soyinka, Wole;Nigeria;Death and the King's
Horsemen;Spectrum

Tchicaya U Tam'si;Congo ;Le Mauvais Sang - Feu de
Brousse-A Triche-Coeur;P. J. swald

Vilakazi, B. W.;S. Africa;Amal'eZulu;Wits University
Press


_Scholarship/Non-fiction_

Amin, Samir;Egypy;Accumulation on a World Scale;Monthly
Review Press

Amediume, Ifi;Nigeria ;Male Daughters, Female Husbands,
Gender and Sex in an African Society;Zed Books

Andrade, Mario de; Angola;Os Nacionalismos Africanos;Sa
da Costa

Appiah, Anthony; Ghana;In My Father's House; OUP

Cabral, Amilcar;Guinea B.;Unity and Struggle;Monthly
Review Press

Casely-Hayford, J.E.;Ghana;Ethiopia Unbound;Cass

Chimera, Rocha ; Kenya;Kswahili, Past, Present and
Future Horizons.; Nairobi University Press

**Diop, Cheik Anta;Seneagal;L'origine africaine de la
civilisation (The African Origin of Civilisation, Myth
or Reality);Presence Africaine

Doorkenoo, Efua;Ghana;Cutting the Rose;Minority Rights
Group

Hountondji, Paulin; Benin;Sur la Philosophie Africaine;

Johnson, Samuel;Nigeria;The History of the Yorubas ; G.
Routledge & Sons

Kenyatta, Jomo;Kenya;Facing Mount Kenya; Maspero

Ki-Zerbo, Joseph;male ;Burkinabe;Histoire de la Afrique
noire; Akademie Kiado

Krog, Antjie; feS. Africa;Country of My Skull;Jonathan
Cape

Mama, Amina;Nigeria;Beyond the Mask, Race, Gender and
Identity;Routledge

Mamdani, Mamood;Uganda;Citizen and Subject:
Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late
Colonialism;James Currey

Mandela, Nelson;S. Africa;Long Walk to Freedom;Little
Brown

Marais, Eugene;S. Africa;Die Siel van die Mier;J. L.
van Schaik (now Van Schaik Publishers)

Memmi, Albert; Tunisia;Portrait du Colonise suivi de
Portrait du colonisateur; L'Etincelle

Mondlane, Eduardo;Mozambique;The Struggle for
Mozambique;Penguin

Mphahlele, Ezekiel;S. Africa;Down Second Avenue;Faber &
Faber

Mudimbe, V. Y.;Congo DRC;The Invention of
Africa;Indiana University Press

Nkrumah, Kwame;Ghana;Ghana: Autobiography of Kwame
Nkrumah;Nelson

Plaatje, Sol;S. Africa;Native Life in South
Africa;Ravan Press

**Soyinka, Wole;Nigeria;Ake: The Years of Childhood;Rex
Collings

Van Onselen, Charles;S. Africa;The Seed in Mine;David
Philip

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