Nigeria Book List

Abani, Chris. Graceland: a novel (2004)

Achebe, Chinua. Anthills of the savannah (1987)

Achebe, Chinua. Arrow of god (1964)

Achebe, Chinua. Beware soul brother, and other poems (1971)

Achebe, Chinua. Chike and the river (1966)

Achebe, Chinua. Girls at war, and other stories (1972)

Achebe, Chinua. Home and exile (2000)

Achebe, Chinua. A man of the people (1966)

Achebe, Chinua. No longer at ease (1960)

Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart (1958)

Achebe, Chinua. The trouble with Nigeria (1984)

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half of a yellow sun (2006)

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Purple hibiscus: a novel (2004)

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. The thing around your neck (2009)

Akpan, Uwem. Say you’re one of them (2008) (in part)

Akwanya, Amechi. Orimili (1991)

Aluko. T. M. Chief the Honourable Minister (1970)

Aluko, T. M. His worshipful majesty (1973)

Aluko, T. M. Kinsman and foreman (1967)

Aluko, T. M. One man, one matchet (1964)

Aluko, T. M. Wrong ones in the dock (1982)

Aiyejina, Funso. The legend of the Rockhills and other stories (1999)

Amadi, Elechi. The concubine (1966)

Amadi, Elechi. Estrangement (1986)

Amadi, Elechi. The great ponds (1969)

Amadi, Elechi. The slave (1978)

Amadi, Elechi. Sunset in Biafra: a civil war diary (1973)

Amadiume, Ifi. African matriarchal foundations: the Igbo case (1995)

Amadiume, Ifi. Male daughters, female husbands: gender and sex in African society (1987)

Amadiume, Ifi. Voices draped in black: poems (2007)

Aniebo, I. N. C. The anonymith of sacrifice (1974)

Aniebo, I. N. C. The journey within (1978)

Aniebo, I. N. C.  Of wives, talismans, and the dead: short stories (1983)

Añunobi, Chikodi. Nri warriors of peace (2006)

Atta, Sefi. Everything good will come: a novel (2008)

Barrett, A. Igoni. From caves of rotten teeth (2005)

Bryce, Jane. Chameleon and other stories (2007)

Cary, Joyce. Cock Jarvis (1975)

Cary, Joyce. Master Johnson (1951)

Clark, J. P. Casualties: poems, 1966-1968 (1970)

Courlander, Harold. Tales of Yoruba gods and heroes (1973)

Dewal, Henry John, et al. Yoruba: nine centuries of African art and thought (1989)

Dibia, Jude. Unbridled (2007)

Dibia, Jude. Walking with shadows (2005)

Dickinson, Peter. Tefuga (1986)

Echewa, T. Obinkaram. The crippled dancer (1986)

Echewa, T. Obinkaram. I saw the sky catch fire (1992)

Echewa, T. Obinkaram. The land’s lord (1976)

Ede, Amatoritsero. Globetrotter and Hitler’s children (2009) (in part)

Ekwensi, Cyprian. Beautiful feathers (1963)

Ekwensi, Cyprian. Burning grass: a story of the Fulani of Northern Nigeria (1962)

Ekwensi, Cyprian. The great elephant-bird (1965)

Ekwensi, Cyprian. Jagua Nana (1961)

Ekwensi, Cyprian. Lokotown and other stories (1966)

Ekwensi, Cyprian. The passport of Mallam Ilia (1960)

Ekwensi, Cyprian. People of the city (1963)

Ekwensi, Cyprian. The rainmaker and other stories (1965)

Ekwensi, Cyprian. Restless city and Christmas gold, with other stories (1975)

Ekwensi, Cyprian. Samankwe and the highway robbers (1975)

Ekwensi, Cyprian. Survive the peace (1976)

Emecheta, Buchi. The bride price (1976)

Emecheta, Buchi. Destination Biafra: a novel (1982)

Emecheta, Buchi. Double yoke (1983)

Emecheta, Buchi. The family (1990)

Emecheta, Buchi. Gwendolen (1989)

Emecheta, Buchi. In the ditch (1972)

Emecheta, Buchi. The joys of motherhood (1979)

Emecheta, Buchi. Kehinde (1994)

Emecheta, Buchi. The moonlit bride (1976)

Emecheta, Buchi. The new tribe (2000)

Emecheta, Buchi. Nowhere to play (1980)

Emecheta, Buchi. The rape of Shavi (1984)

Emecheta, Buchi. Second-class citizen (1974)

Emecheta, Buchi. The slave girl: a novel (1977)

Emenyonu, Ernest N., editor. The essential Ekwensi: a literary celebration of Cyprian Ekwensi’s sixty-fifth birthday (1987)

Emenyonu, Ernest. Tales of our motherland (1999)

Fagunwa, Daniel O. The forest of a thousand demons (1938; translated 1968)

Falola, Toyin. Culture and customs of Nigeria (2001)

Falola, Toyin and Akanmu Adebayo. Culture, politics and money among the Yoruba (2000)

Falola, Toyin. Etches on fresh waters (2008)

Falola, Toyin and Matthew M. Heaton. The history of Nigeria (2008)

Falola, Toyin. A mouth sweeter than salt: an African memoir (2004)

Falola, Toyin. Nigeria in the twentieth century (2002)

Falola, Toyin and Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh, Jr., editors. Population movements, conflicts, and displacements in Nigeria (2008)

Falola, Toyin and Julius Ihonvbere. The rise and fall of Nigeria’s Second Republic, 1979-84 (1985)

Falola, Toyin, editor. Tradition and change in Africa: the essays of J. F. Ade Ajayi (2000)

The transformation of Nigeria: essays in honor of Toyin Falola, edited by Adebayo Oyebade (2002)

Falola, Toyin. Yoruba gurus: indigenous production of knowledge in Africa (1999)

Fulani, Dan. Flight 800 (1992)

Gimba, Abubakar. Footprints (1998)

Griswold, Wendy. Bearing witness: readers, writers, and the novel in Nigeria (2000)

Habila, Helon. Measuring time: a novel (2007)

Habila, Helon. Waiting for an angel: a novel (2002)

Holmes, Peter. Nigeria: giant of Africa (1987)

Iroh, Eddie. The siren in the night (1982)

Iroh, Eddie. Toads of war (1979)

Iweala, Uzodinma. Beasts of no nation: a novel (2005)

Iyayi, Festus. Awaiting court martial (1996)

Iyayi, Festus. The contract (1982)

Iyayi, Festu. Heroes (1986)

Iyayi, Festus. Violence (1979)

Kalu, Anthonia C. Broken lives and other stories (2003)

King-Aribisala, Karen. The hangman’s game (2007) (in part)

King-Arlbisala, Karen. Kicking tongues (1998)

King-Arlbisala, Karen. Our wife and other stories (1990)

Maja-Pearce, Adewale. In my father’s country: a Nigerian journey (1987)

Maja-Pearce, Adewale. A mask dancing: Nigerian novelists of the eighties (1992)

Mazrui, Ali A. The trial of Christopher Okigbo (1971)

McLuckie, Craig W. and Aubrey McPhail, editors. Ken Saro-Wiwa: writer and political activist (2000)

McLuckie, Craig W. Nigerian Civil War literature: seeking an “imagined community” (1990)

Mezu, Sebastian Okechukwu. Behind the rising sun (1971)

Mitton, Jennifer. Fadimatu (1992)

Munonye, John. Bridge to a wedding (1978)

Munonye, John. A dancer of fortune (1975)

Munonye, John. Obi (1969)

Munonye, John. Oil man of Obange (1971)

Munonye, John. The only son (1966)

Munonye, John. A wreath for the maidens (1973)

Na’Allah, Abdul-Rasheed, editor. Ogoni’s agonies: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the crisis in Nigeria (1998)

Na’Allah, Abdul-Rasheed, editor. The people’s poet: emerging perspectives on Niyi Osundare (2003)

Nduka, Uche. Eel on reef (2007)

Newington, Nina. Where bones dance: an English girlhood, an African war (2007) (in part)

Nkala, Nathan. Drums and the voice of death (1996)

Nwankwo, Nkem. Danda (1964)

Nwapa, Flora. Cassava song and rice song (1986)

Nwapa, Flora. Efuru (1966)

Nwapa, Flora. Idu (1970)

Nwapa, Flora. Never again (1975)

Nwapa, Flora. One is enough (1981)

Nwapa, Flora. This is Lagos and other stories (1971)

Nwapa, Flora. Wives at war and other stories (1980)

Nwapa, Flora. Women are different (1986)

Nzekwu, Onuora. Blade among the boys (1962)

Nzekwu, Onuora. High life for lizards (1965)

Nzekwu, Onuora. Wand of noble wood (1961)

Oguine, Ike. A squatter’s tale (2000) (in part)

Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo. Africa wo – man palava: the Nigerian novel by women (1996)

Ogunyemi, Yemi D. The oral traditions in Ile (2010)

Ojaide, Tanure. The blood of peace and other poems (1991)

Ojaide, Tanure. Daydreams of ants and other poems (1997)

Ojaide, Tanure. Great boys: an African childhood (1998)

Ojaide, Tanure. I want to dance and other poems (2003)

Ojaide, Tanure. In the house of words (2006)

Ojaide, Tanure. Invoking the warrior spirit: new and selected poems (1999)

Ojaide, Tanure. Labyrinths of the delta (1986)

Ojaide, Tanure. The poetry of Wole Soyinka (1994)

Ojaide, Tanure. The tale of the harmattan (2007)

Ojaide, Tanure and Rose Aziza. The Urhobo language today (2007)

Ojaide, Tanure. Waiting for the hatching of a cockerel (2008)

Okara, Gabriel. The fisherman’s invocation (1978)

Okara, Gabriel. The voice (1964)

Okigbo, Christopher. Collected poems (1986)

Okigbo, Christopher. Labyrinths: with path of thunder (1971)

Okonta, Ike. When citizens revolt: Nigerian elites, big oil, and the Ogoni struggle for self-determination (2008)

Okorafor, Nnedi. Who fears death (2010)

Okoye, Ifeoma. The trial and other stories (2005)

Okome, Onookome, editor. Before I am hanged: Ken Saro-Wiwa, literature, politics, and dissent (2000)

Okpi, Kalu. Biafra testament (1982)

Okri, Ben. Astonishing the gods (1995)

Okri, Ben. The famished road (1991)

Okri, Ben. The landscapes within (1981)

Okri, Ben. Songs of enchantment (1993)

Okri, Ben. Stars of the new curfew (1988)

Okri, Ben. A way of being free (1997)

Olafioye, Tayo. The poetry of Tanure Ojaide (2000)

Onwueme, Osonye Tess. Ban empty barn and other plays (1986)

Onwueme, Osonye Tess. Broken calabash (1984)

Onwueme, Osonye Tess. The desert encroaches (1985)

Onwueme, Osonye Tess. A hen too soon (1983)

Onwueme, Osonye Tess. Legacies: a play (1989)

Onwueme, Osonye Tess. Parables for a season (2002)

Onwueme, Osonye Tess. The reign of Wazobia (1988)

Onwueme, Osonye Tess. Why the elephant has no butt: stories Mother Turkey told her children (2000)

Orji, Cyril U. Lamentation: an immigrant’s dilemma (1999)

Orji, Gabriel. Stirrings in Canaan (1997)

Osofisan, Femi. Another raft (1988)

Osofisan, Femi. The chattering and the song (1977)

Osofisan, Femi. Esu and the vagabond minstrels (2002)

Osofisan, Femi. Minted coins (1987)

Osofisan, Femi. Morountodun and other plays (1982)

Osofisan, Femi. No more the wasted breed (2008)

Osofisan, Femi. Once upon four robbers (1991)

Osofisan, Femi. The Oriki of a grasshopper (2002)

Osofisan, Femi. Red in the freedom road (2008)

Osofisan, Femi. Women of Owu (2006)

Osundare, Niyi. The eye of the earth (1986)

Osundare, Niyi. Moonsongs (1988)

Osundare, Niyi. Selected poems (1992)

Osundare, Niyi. Midlife (1993)

Osundare, Niyi. Pages from the book of the sun: new and selected poems (2002)

Osundare, Niyi. Songs from the marketplace (1983)

Osundare, Niyi. Thread in the loom: essays on African literature and culture (2002)

Osundare, Niyi. Village voices (1984)

Osundare, Niyi. Waiting laughters (1990)

Owomoyela, Oyekan. Yoruba trickster tales (1997)

Oyeyemi, Helen. The Icarus girl (2005) (in part)

Raji, Remi. A harvest of laughters (1997)

Raji, Remi. Webs of remembrance (2001)

Raji, Remi. Lovesong for my wasteland (2005)

Raji, Remi. Gather my blood rivers of song (2009)

Richards, Sandra L. Ancient songs set ablaze: the theatre of Femi Osofisan (1996)

Rogers, Jane. The voyage home (2004) (in part)

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. Bride by return (2002)

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. Comrades all (2002)

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. A forest of flowers: short stories (1995)

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. Lemona’s tale (1996)

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. Madam no go quench again (2002)

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. The mattress (2002)

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. A month and a day: a detention diary (1995)

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. On a darkling plain: an account of the Nigerian civil war (1989)

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. Prisoners of Jebs (1988)

Saro-Wiwa, Ken.  A shipload of rice (2002)

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. The singing anthill: Ogoni folk tales (1991)

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. Sozaboy: a novel in rotten English (1994)

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. The transistor radio (2002)

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. The wheel (2002)

Segun, Mabel. The surrender and other stories (1995)

Sidahome, Joseph E. Stories of the Benin empire (1964)

Sofola, Zulu. The disturbed peace of Christmas (1971)

Sofola, Zulu. King Emene (1974)

Sofola, Zulu. Old wines are tasty (1981)

Sofola, Zulu. The sweet trap (1977)

Sofola, Zulu. Wedlock of the Gods (1972)

Sofola, Zulu. The wizard of law (1975)

Sowande, Bode. A farewell to Babylon and other plays (1978)

Sowande, Bode. Flamingo and other plays (1980)

Sowande, Bode. The night before Babylon (1972)

Sowande, Bode. Tornadoes full of dreams (1990)

Sowande, Bode. Without a home (1982)

Soyinka, Wole. Ake: the years of childhood (1989)

Soyinka, Wole. Climate of fear: the quest for dignity in a dehumanized world (2005)

Soyinka, Wole. Collected plays (1973)

Soyinka, Wole. A dance of the forests (1960)

Soyinka, Wole. Death and the king’s horseman (1976)

Soyinka, Wole. Ibadan : the penkelemes years: a memoir : 1946-1965 (1994)

Soyinka, Wole. The lion and the jewel (1959)

Soyinka, Wole. The man died: prison notes of Wole Soyinka (1988)

Soyinka, Wole. The open sore of a continent: a personal narrative of the Nigerian crisis (1996)

Soyinka, Wole. You must set forth at dawn: a memoir (2006)

Tutuola, Amos. Feather woman of the jungle (1962)

Tutuola, Amos. My life in the bush of ghosts (1954)

Tutuola, Amos. The palm-wine drinkard (1954)

Tutuola, Amos. Pauper, brawler and slanderer (1987)

Tutuola, Amos. Simbi and the satyr of the dark jungle (1956)

Tutuola, Amos. The village witch doctor and other stories (1990)

Tutuola, Amos. The wild hunter in the Bush of the Ghosts (1989)

Tutuola, Amos. The witch herbalist of the remote town (1981)

Ulasi, Adaora Lily. The man from Sagamu (1978)

Ulasi, Adaora Lily. Many things you no understand (1970)

Ulasi, Adaora Lily. The night Harry died (1974)

Ulasi, Adaora Lily. Who is Jonah (1978)

Vaz, Kim Marie. The woman with the artistic brush: a life history of artist Nike Davies (1995)

Walker, Barbara K. and Helen Siegl. The dancing palm tree and other Nigerian folktales (1968)