In 1957, Heinemann Educational Books (HEB) created the African Writers Series, spearheaded by Alan Hill and West Africa specialist Van Milne, to focus on publishing the writers of Africa such as Chinua Achebe, who was the first advisory editor of the series. Heinemann was awarded the 1992 Worldaware Award for Social Progress. The series was relaunched by Pearson in 2011.
Inspired by the African Writers Series, Leon Comber launched the Writing in Asia Series in 1966 from Singapore. Two Austin Coates books in the series, Myself a Mandarin and City of Broken Promises, became bestsellers, but the series, after publishing more than 70 titles, was to fold in 1984 when Heinemann Asia was taken over by a parent group of publishers.
In 1970, the Caribbean Writers Series—modeled on the African Writers Series—was launched by James Currey and others at HEB to republish work by major Caribbean writers.
This list is as of 1986, if their later works are not included. I've also corrected the spelling of Authors names where it seemed relevant.You can see a more another mostly complete list
here.
A - L
NUMBER | AUTHOR | TITLE |
6 |
Peter Abrahams
|
Mine Boy |
1 |
Chinua Achebe |
Things Fall Apart |
3 |
Chinua Achebe |
No Longer At Ease |
16 |
Chinua Achebe |
Arrow of God |
31 |
Chinua Achebe |
A Man of the People |
100 |
Chinua Achebe |
Girls at War |
120 |
Chinua Achebe |
Beware Soul Brother |
241 |
Thomas Akare |
The Slums |
11 |
T. M. Aluko |
One Man, One Machete |
30 |
T. M. Aluko |
One Man, One Wife |
32 |
T. M. Aluko |
Kinsman and Foreman |
70 |
T. M. Aluko |
Chief, the Honourable Minister |
25 |
Elechi Amadi |
The Concubines |
44 |
Elechi Amadi |
The Great Ponds |
210 |
Elechi Amadi |
The Slave |
148 |
I. N. C. Aniebo |
The Anonymity of Sacrifice |
206 |
I. N. C. Aniebo |
The Journey Within |
253 |
I. N. C. Aniebo |
Of Wives, Talismans and the Dead |
261 |
Kofi Anyidoho |
A Harvest of Dreams |
43 |
Ayi Kwei Armah |
The Beautiful Ones are not Yet Born |
154 |
Ayi Kwei Armah |
Fragments |
155 |
Ayi Kwei Armah |
Why are we so Blest? |
194 |
Ayi Kwei Armah |
The Healers |
218 |
Ayi Kwei Armah |
Two Thousand Seasons |
59 |
Bediako Asare |
The Rebel |
108 |
Kofi Awoonor |
This Earth, My Brother |
260 |
Kofi Awoonor |
Until the Morning After |
248 |
Mariama Ba |
So Long a Letter |
205 |
Francis Bebey |
The Ashanti Doll |
13 |
Mongo Beti |
Mission to Kala |
77 |
Mongo Beti |
King Lazarus |
88 |
Mongo Beti |
The Poor Christ of Bomba |
181 |
Mongo Beti |
Perpetua and the Habit of Unhappiness |
214 |
Mongo Beti |
Remember Ruben |
217 |
Steve Biko |
I Write What I Like |
147 |
Okot p'Bitek |
The Horn of My Love |
193 |
Okot p'Bitek |
Hare and Hornbill |
266 |
Okot p'Bitek |
Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol |
186 |
Yaw M. Boateng |
The Return |
46 |
Dennis Brutus |
Letters to Martha |
115 |
Dennis Brutus |
A Simple Lust |
208 |
Dennis Brutus |
Stubborn Hope |
198 |
Amilcar Cabral |
Unity and struggle |
221 |
Styl Cheney-Coker |
The Graveyard also has Teeth |
79 |
Driss Chraibi |
Heirs to the Past |
50 |
J. P. Clark |
America, Their America |
12 |
William Conton |
The African |
87 |
Bernard Dadie |
Climbe |
125 |
Daniachew Worku |
The Thirteenth Sun |
124 |
Modikwe Dikobe |
The Marabi Dance |
57 |
Mbella Sonne Dipoko |
Because of Women |
107 |
Mbella Sonne Dipoko |
Black and White in Love |
41 |
Amu Djoleto |
The Strange Man |
168 |
T. Obinkaram Echewa |
The Land's Lord |
2 |
Cyprian Ekwensi |
Burning Grass |
5 |
Cyprian Ekwensi |
People of the City |
19 |
Cyprian Ekwensi |
Lokotown |
84 |
Cyprian Ekwensi |
Beautiful Feathers |
146 |
Cyprian Ekwensi |
Jagua Nana |
172 |
Cyprian Ekwensi |
Restless City |
185 |
Cyprian Ekwensi |
Survive the Peace |
227 |
Buchi Emecheta |
The Joys of Motherhood |
10 |
Olaudah Equiano |
Equaino's Travels |
80 |
Nuruddin Farah |
From a Crooked Rib |
184 |
Nuruddin Farah |
A Naked Needle |
226 |
Nuruddin Farah |
Sweet and Sour Milk |
252 |
Nuruddin Farah |
Sardines |
20 |
Mungo Gatheru |
Child of Two Worlds |
223 |
Fathy Ghanem |
The Man Who Lost his Shadow |
177 |
Nadine Gordimer |
Some Monday for Sure |
166 |
Joe De Graft |
Beneath the Jazz and Brass |
264 |
Joe De Graft |
Muntu |
101 |
Bessie Head |
Maru |
149 |
Bessie Head |
A Question of Power |
182 |
Bessie Head |
The Collector of Treasures |
220 |
Bessie Head |
Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind |
60 |
Luis Bernardo Honwana |
We Killed the Mangy-Dog |
228 |
Taha Hussein |
An Egyptian Childhood |
209 |
Ysuf Idris |
The Cheapest Nights |
267 |
Ysuf Idris |
Rings of Burnished Brass |
18 |
Obotunde Ijmere |
The Imprisonment of Obatala |
189 |
Eddie Iroh |
Forty-Eight Guns for the General |
213 |
Eddie Iroh |
Toads of War |
255 |
Eddie Iroh |
The Siren in the Night |
231 |
Kenjo Jumbam |
The White Man of God |
24 |
Aubrey Kachingwe |
No Easy Task |
158 |
Samuel Kahiga |
The Girl from Abroad |
119 |
Cheikh Hamidou Kane |
Ambigious Adventure |
4 |
Kenneth Kaunda |
Zambia Shall be Free |
162 |
Legson Kayira |
The Detainee |
157 |
A. W. Kayper-Mensah |
The Drummer in our Time |
219 |
Jomo Kenyatta |
Facing Mount Kenya |
40 |
Asare Konadu |
A Woman in her Prime |
55 |
Asare Konadu |
Ordained by the Oracle |
239 |
Ahmadou Kourouma |
The Suns of Independance |
211 |
Mazisi Kunene |
Emperor Shaka the Great |
234 |
Mazisi Kunene |
Anthem of the Decades |
235 |
Mazisi Kunene |
The Ancestors |
35 |
Alex La Guma |
A Walk in the Night |
110 |
Alex La Guma |
In the Fog of the Seasons End |
212 |
Alex La Guma |
Time of the Burcherbird |
251 |
Hugh Lewin |
Bandiet |
69 |
Taban Lo Liyong |
Fixions |
74 |
Taban Lo Liyong |
Eating Chiefs |
90 |
Taban Lo Liyong |
Frantz Fannon's Uneven Ribs |
M-Z
NUMBER | AUTHOR | TITLE |
137 |
Yulisa Amadu Maddy |
No Past, No Present, No Future |
225 |
Naguib Mafouz |
Children of Gebelawi |
123 |
Nelson Mandela |
No Easy Walk to Freedom |
236 |
Jack Mapanje |
Of Chameleons and Gods |
207 |
Dambudzo Marechera |
The House of Hunger |
237 |
Dambudzo Marechera |
Black Sunlight |
97 |
Ali A Mazrui |
The Trial of Christipher Okigbo |
81 |
Tom Mboya |
The Challenge of Nationhood Speeches |
229 |
Thomas Mofolo |
Chaka |
98 |
Dominic Mulaisho |
The Tongue of the Dumb |
204 |
Dominic Mulaisho |
The Smoke that Thunders |
21 |
John Munonye |
The Only Son |
45 |
John Munonye |
Obi |
94 |
John Munonye |
Oil Man of Obange |
153 |
John Munonye |
A Dancer of Fortune |
195 |
John Munonye |
Bridge to a Wedding |
159 |
Martha Mvungi |
Thee Solid Stones |
143 |
Meja Mwangi |
Kill me Quick |
145 |
Meja Mwangi |
Carcase for Hounds |
176 |
Meja Mwangi |
Gang Down River Road |
160 |
George Simeon Mwase |
Strike a Blow and Die |
262 |
John Nagenda |
The Seasons of Thomas Tebo |
7 |
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
Weep Not Child |
17 |
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
The River Between |
36 |
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
A Grain of Wheat |
51 |
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
The Black Hermit |
150 |
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
Secret Lives |
188 |
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
Petals of Blood |
200 |
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
Devil on the Cross |
240 |
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
Detained |
191 |
Ngugi & Micere Mugo |
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi |
246 |
Ngugi & Ngugi Wa Miri |
I Will Marry When I Want |
203 |
Rebeka Njau |
Ripples in the Pool |
67 |
Nkem Nwankwo |
Danda |
173 |
Nkem Nwankwo |
My Mercedes is Bigger Than Yours |
26 |
Flora Nwapa |
Efuru |
56 |
Flora Nwapa |
Idu |
233 |
S. Nyamfukudza |
The Non-Beleiver's Journey |
85 |
Onuora Nzekwu |
Wand of Noble Wood |
249 |
Olusegun Obasanjo |
My Commands |
38 |
Oginga Odinga |
Not Yet Uhuru |
68 |
Gabriel Okara |
The Voice |
183 |
Gabriel Okara |
The Fishermans's Invocation |
62 |
Christopher Okigbo |
Labryinths |
122 |
Kole Omotoso |
The Combat |
63 |
Sembene Ousmane |
God's Bits of Wood |
92 |
Sembene Ousmane |
The Money-Order |
175 |
Sembene Ousmane |
Xala |
250 |
Sembene Ousmane |
The Last Bit of Empire |
99 |
Yambo Ouologuem |
Bound to Violence |
29 |
Ferdinand Oyono |
Houseboy |
39 |
Ferdinand Oyono |
The Old Man amd the Medal |
201 |
Sol T. Plaatje |
Mhudi |
269 |
Pepetela |
Mayombe |
178 |
R. L. Peteni |
Hill of Fools |
22 |
Lenrie Peters |
The Second Round |
37 |
Lenrie Peters |
Satellites |
238 |
Lenrie Peters |
Selected Poetry |
258 |
Mofefe Pheto |
And Night Fell |
167 |
J. J. Rabearivelo |
Translations From the Night |
271 |
Alifa Rifaat |
Distant View of a Minaret |
156 |
Mwangi Ruheni |
The Minister's daughter |
47 |
Tayeb Salih |
The Wedding of Zein |
66 |
Tayeb Salih |
Season of Migration to the North |
33 |
Stanlake Samkange |
On Trial for my Country |
169 |
Stanlake Samkange |
The Mourned One |
190 |
Stanlake Samkange |
Year of the Uprising |
199 |
Williams Sassine |
Wirriyamu |
136 |
Kobina Sekyi |
The Blinkards |
163 |
Sahle Sellassie |
Warrior King |
27 |
Francis Selormey |
The Narrow Path |
71 |
L. S. Senghor |
Nocturnes |
180 |
L. S. Senghor |
Prose and Poetry |
268 |
Sipho Sepamla |
A Ride on the Whirlwind |
263 |
Mongane Serote |
To Every Birth It's Blood |
76 |
Wole Soyinka |
The Interperters |
72 |
Tchicaya U Tam'si |
Selected Poems |
104 |
Can Themba |
The Will to Die |
61 |
Rems Nna Umeasiegbu |
The Way We Lived |
202 |
J. L. Viera |
The Real Life of Domingos Xavier |
222 |
J. L. Viera |
Luuanda |
244 |
John Ya-Otto |
Battlefront Namibia |
216 |
Asiedu Yirenyi |
Kivuli and Other Plays |
128 |
D. M. Zwelonke |
Robben Island |
9 |
Various |
Modern African Prose |
14 |
Various |
Quartet |
23 |
Various |
The Origin of Life and Death |
48 |
Various |
Not Even God is Ripe Enough |
83 |
Various |
Myths and Legends of the Congo |
118 |
Various |
Amadu's Bundle |
132 |
Various |
Two Centuries of African English |
192 |
Various |
Egyptian Short Stories |
243 |
Various |
Africa South Contemporary Writings |
254 |
Various |
Stories from Central and Southern africa |
256 |
Various |
Unwinding Threads |
259 |
Various |
The is the Time |
270 |
Various |
African Short Stories |
8 |
Various |
Book of African Verse |
93 |
Various |
A Choice of Flowers |
96 |
Various |
Poems from East Africa |
106 |
Various |
French African Verse |
129 |
Various |
Igbo Traditional verse |
164 |
Various |
Black Poets in South Africa |
171 |
Various |
Poems of Black Africa |
192 |
Various |
Anthonogy of Swahili Poetry |
215 |
Various |
Poems from Angola |
230 |
Various |
Poets to the People |
257 |
Various |
New Poetry From Africa |
28 |
Various |
Short East African Plays |
34 |
Various |
Ten One-Act Plays |
78 |
Various |
Short African Plays |
127 |
Various |
Nine African Plays for Radio |
165 |
Various |
African Plays for Playing 1 |
179 |
Various |
African Plays for Playing2 |
224 |
Various |
South African People's Plays |
232 |
Various |
Egyptian One-Act Plays |
114 |
Various |
Five African Plays |
15 |
Various |
Origin East Africa: a Makerere Anthology |