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BESSIE HEAD
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In order to celebrate the achievements of African writers over the last
century, the Zimbabwe International Book Fair launched the international
compilation of "Africa's 100 Best Books." The project was organized in
collaboration with the African Publishers Network, the Pan-African Booksellers
Association, African writer's associations, book development councils,
and library associations. Nominations were sought throughout the African
continent and internationally. A comprehensive list of all nominations
was published and regional panels compiled their own short lists of 100
best books. A jury made the final decision from the short list and the
final list of "Africa's 100 Best Books" was announced on February 18, 2002.
The jury selected books in three main categories: Creative Writing, Scholarship/Non-Fiction
and Literature for Children. The following table shows the author, the
author's country, and the title of the book.
CREATIVE WRITING
| Abnudi, 'Abd al-Rahman | Egypt | al-Mawt 'ala al-asfalt |
| Achebe, Chinua | Nigeria | Arrow of Gold |
| Achebe, Chinua | Nigeria | Things Fall Apart |
| Aidoo, Ama Ata | Ghana | Anowa |
| Almeida, Germano | Cape Verde | O testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araujo |
| Armah, Ayi Kwei | Ghana | The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born |
| Ba, Amadou Hampate | Mali | L'etrange destin de Wangrin |
| Ba, Mariama | Senegal | Une si longue lettre |
| Ben Jelloun, Tahar | Morocco | La nuit Sacree |
| Beti, Mongo | Cameroon | La pauvre Christ de Bomba |
| Brink, Andre | South Africa | A Dry White Season |
| Bugul, Ken | Senegal | Riwan, ou le chemin de sable |
| Cheney-Choker, Syl | Sierra Leone | The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar |
| Chraibi, Driss | Morocco | Le passe simple |
| Coetzee, J.M. | South Africa | Life and Times of Michael K |
| Couto, Mia | Mozambique | Terra sonambula |
| Craverinha, Jose | Mozambique | Karingana ua Karingana |
| Dadie, Bernard | Cote d'Ivoire | Climbie |
| Dangarembga, Tsitsi | Zimbabwe | Nervous Conditions |
| Dib, Mohammed | Algeria | Algerie, La grande maison, L'incendie, Le metier a tisser |
| Diop, Birago | Senegal | Les contes d'Amadou Koumba |
| Diop, Boubacar Boris | Senegal | Murambi ou le livre des ossements |
| Djebar, Assia | Algeria | L'amour, la fantasia |
| Emecheta, Buchi | Nigeria | The Joys of Motherhood |
| Fagunwa, Daniel O. | Nigeria | Ogboju ode ninu igbo irunmale |
| Farah, Nuruddin | Somalia | Maps |
| Fugard, Athol | South Africa | The Blood Knot |
| Ghitani, Jamal al- | Egypt | Zayni Barakat |
| Gordimer, Nadine | South Africa | Burgher's Faughter |
| Head, Bessie | South Africa | A Question of Power |
| Honwana, Bernardo | Mozambique | Nos matamos o cao tinhoso |
| Hove, Chenjerai | Zimbabwe | Bones |
| Isegawa, Moses | Uganda | Abessijnse Kronieken |
| Jordan, Archibald Campbell | South Africa | Ingqumbo yeminyanya |
| Joubert, Elsa | South Africa | Die Swerdjare van Poppie Nongena |
| Kane, Cheikh Hamidou | Senegal | L'aventure ambigue |
| Khosa, Ungulani | Mozambique | Ualalapi |
| Kourouma, Ahmadou | Cote d'Ivoire | Les soleils des independances |
| Laye, Camara | Guinea | L'enfant noir |
| Magona, Sindiwe | South Africa | Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night |
| Mahfouz, Naguib | Egypt | The Cairo Trilogy |
| Marechera, Dambudzo | Zimbabwe | House of Hunger |
| Mofolo, Thomas | Lesotho | Chaka |
| Monenembo, Tierno | Guinea | Un attieke pour Elgass |
| Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo | South Africa | Indaba, My Children |
| Ngugi wa Thiong'o | Kenya | Caitaani Mutharaba-ini |
| Ngugi wa Thiong'o | Kenya | A Grain of Wheat |
| Niane, Djibril Tamsir | Senegal | Soundjata ou l'epopee mandingue |
| Nyembezi, Sibusiso | South Africa | Inkinnsela yaseMgungundlovu |
| Okigbo, Christopher | Nigeria | Labyrinths |
| Okri, Ben | Nigeria | The Famished Road |
| Oyono, Ferdinand | Cameroon | Le vieux negre et la medaille |
| P'Bitek, Okut | Uganda | Song of Lawino |
| Pepetela | Angola | A geracao da utopia |
| Saadawi, Nawal El | Egypt | Woman at Point Zero |
| Salih El Tayyib | Sudan | Season of Migration to the North |
| Sassine, Williams | Guinea | Le jeune homme de sable |
| Sembene, Ousmane | Senegal | Les bouts de bois de Dieu |
| Senghor, Leopold Sedar | Senegal | Ouevre poetique |
| Serote, Mongane | South Africa | Third World Express |
| Shabaan, Robert Bin | Tanzania | Utenzi wa vita vya uhuru |
| Sony Labou Tansi | Dem. Rep. of Congo | La vie et demie |
| Sow Fall, Aminata | Senegal | La greve des battus |
| Soyinka, Wole | Nigeria | Death and the King's Horsemen |
| Tchicaya U Tam'si | Congo | Le mauvais sang - feu de brousse - a trisse-coeur |
| Tutuola, Amos | Nigeria | The Palm-Wine Drinkard |
| Vera, Yvonne | Zimbabwe | Butterfly Burning |
| Vieira, Jose Luandino | Angola | Nos os do Makulusu |
| Vilakazi, B.W. | South Africa | Amal'eZulu |
| Yacine, Kateb | Algeria | Nedjma |
SCHOLARSHIP/NON-FICTION
| Amin, Samir | Egypt | Accumulation on a World Scale |
| Amadiume, Ifi | Nigeria | Male Daughters, Female Husbands |
| Andrade, Mario de | Angola | Os nacionalismos africanos |
| Appiah, Anthony | Ghana | In My Father's House |
| Cabral, Amilcar | Guinea-Bissau | Unity and Struggle |
| Chimera, Rocha | Kenya | Kiswahili; Past, Present and Future Horizons |
| Diop, Cheikh Anta | Senegal | Anteriorite des civilisations negres |
| Doorkenoo, Efua | Ghana | Cutting the Rose |
| Hayford, J.E. Casely | Ghana | Ethiopia Unbound |
| Hountondji, Paulin | Benin | Sur la philosphie africaine |
| Johnson, Samuel | Nigeria | The History of the Yorubas |
| Kenyatta, Jomo | Kenya | Facing Mouny Kenya |
| Ki-Zerbo, Joseph | Burkina Faso | Histoire de l'Afrique noire |
| Krog, Antjie | South Africa | Country of My Skull |
| Mama, Amina | Nigeria | Beyond the Mask, Race, Gender and Identity |
| Mamdani, Mahmood | Uganda | Citizen and Subject |
| Mandela, Nelson | South Africa | Long Walk to Freedom |
| Marais, Eugene | South Africa | Die Siel van die Mier |
| Memmi, Albert | Tunisia | Portrait du colonise suivi de portrait du colonisateur |
| Mondlane, Eduardo | Mozambique | The Struggle for Mozambique |
| Mphahlele, Ezekial | South Africa | Down Second Avenue |
| Mudimbe, V.Y. | Dem. Rep. of Congo | The Invention of Africa |
| Nkrumah, Kwame | Ghana | Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah |
| Plaatje, Sol | South Africa | Native Life in South Africa |
| Soyinka, Wole | Nigeria | Ake: The Years of Childhood |
| Van Onselen, Charles | South Africa | The Seed is Mine |
LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN
| Asare, Meshack | Ghana | Sosu's Call |
| Al-Homi, Hayam Abbas | Egypt | Adventures of a Breath |
| Mungoshi, Charles | Zimbabwe | Stories from a Shona Childhood |
| Tadjo, Veronique | Cote d'Ivoire | mamy Wata et le monstre |
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