BOOKPATHS

Emily Dickinson’s Garden, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, U.S.

Lynn Neary visits Emily Dickinson’s Garden: the Poetry of Flowers exhibition at The New York Botanical Garden.

The poet Emily Dickinson lived a reclusive life at her family's home in Amherst, Mass., but while she rarely went out into society, she did spend a lot of time outdoors. Dickinson loved nature and was an avid gardener, and now an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden called Emily Dickinson's Garden: The Poetry of Flowers is putting on display a side of the poet that is little known. --  from “A Flowering Tribute to Emily Dickinson,” by Lynn Neary, NPR Website

The New York Botanical Garden Website

Somalia Book List

Adam, Hussein M. From tyranny to anarchy: the Somali experience (2008)

Ahmed, Ali Jimale. Daybreak is near: literature, clans, and the nation-state in Somalia (1996)

Ahmed, Ali Jimale. The invention of Somalia (1995)

Alden, Patricia and Louis Tremaine. Nuruddin Farah (1999)

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi. Infidel (2007) (in part)

Baez, Joan, Sr.. One bowl of porridge: memoirs of Somalia (1985)

Bradbury, Mark. Becoming Somaliland (2008)

D’Haem. Jeanne. The last camel: true stories about Somalia (1997)

Dirie, Waris. Desert children (2007)

Dirie, Waris. Desert dawn (2004)

Dirie, Waris. Desert flower: the extraordinary journey of a desert nomad (1998)

Farah, Nuruddin. Close sesame: a novel (1983)

Farah, Nuruddin. From a crooked rib (1970)

Farah, Nuruddin. Gifts (1993)

Farah, Nuruddin. Knots (2007)

Farah, Nuruddin. Links (2004)

Farah, Nuruddin. Maps (1986)

Farah, Nuruddin. A naked needle (1976)

Farah, Nuruddin. Sardines: a novel (1981)

Farah, Nuruddin. Secrets (1998)

Farah, Nuruddin.  Sweet and sour milk (1979)

Farah, Nuruddin. Territories (2000)

Farah, Nuruddin. Yesterday, tomorrow: voices from the Somali diaspora (2000)

Farah, Nuruddin. Why die so soon? (1965)

Gardner, Judith and Judy El Bushra. Somalia – the untold story: the war through the eyes of Somali women (2004)

Korn, Fadumo. Born in the big rains: a memoir of Somalia and survival (2006)

Laurence, Margaret. New wind in a dry land: an account of a sojourn among the nomads of Somaliland (1964)

Lewis, Ioan M. Understanding Somalia and Somaliland: culture, history, society (2008)

Morrow, Baker H. Horses like the wind and other stories of Africa (2001)

Mukhtar, Mohamed Haji. Historical dictionary of Somalia (2003)

Peterson, Scott. Me against my brother: at war in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda (2000)

Robert, Na’ima B. From Somalia with love (2009)

Sheik-Abdi, Abdi A. Divine madness: Mohammed ‘Abdulle Hassan (1856-1920) (1993)

Sheik-Abdi, Abdi A. Tales of Punt: Somali folktales (1993)

Sheik-Abdi, Abdi A. When a Hyena laughs: a Somalian novel (1994)

Wright, Derek. Emerging perspectives on Nuruddin Farah (2002)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Terry Gross talks with The Rev. Gregory Boyle, director and founder of Homeboy Industries, “the largest gang-intervention program in the country,” about his recently published memoir, Tattoos on the Heart, and Homeboy's current financial crisis.

Homeboy Industries Website

L.A.’s Homeboy Industries Lays Off Most Employees (Los Angeles Times, May 14, 2010)

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June 2010 Literary Events

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. -- Andre Gide

England

53rd London International Antiquarian Book Fair
June 3-5
London
http://www.olympiabookfair.com/

The 53rd London International Antiquarian Book Fair will bring together over 150 internationally renowned dealers from 18 countries.

Stoke Newington Literary Festival
June 4-6
London
http://www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/

Welcome to Stoke Newington’s first ever literary festival!  From 4th to 6th June 2010 London’s historic home to radical writers, thinkers and dissidents plays host to a diverse array of today’s most interesting authors and poets.  With everything from Gothic horror to comedy, poetry to sci-fi, feminism to food and drink, there’s something for everyone in the event this brilliantly diverse borough has long been waiting for.

The 7th Althorp Literary Festival
June 12-13
Althorp
http://www.althorp.com/literaryfestival

The Althorp Literary Festival promises to be a summer event not to be missed. Taking place over the weekend of 12th and 13th June, the Festival presents an array of talks, readings and debates in some of the most beautiful rooms of Althorp House.

France

The Shakespeare and Company Literary Festival
“Storytelling & Politics”
June 18-20
Paris
http://www.festivalandco.com/

Ireland

Dublin Writers Festival 2010
June 1-6
Dublin
http://www.dublinwritersfestival.com/

It is always wonderful to have reason to show pride and to celebrate. Dublin Writers Festival 2010 offers the city a chance to draw strength and inspiration from the best of the nation’s contemporary writers. Our playwrights, poets, fiction and non-fiction writers, as well songwriters and composers will give voice to a living heritage that marks us as the richest of nations.

Writers’ Week
June 2-6
Listowel
http://www.writersweek.ie/2010/index.html

Since it's inception in 1970 Listowel Writers' Week has been recognised as the primary event in Ireland's literary calendar.

Bloomsday in Ireland (and worldwide)
June 16
http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/listing.asp?id=35

Scotland

Nairn Book & Arts Festival
June 5-13
Nairn
http://www.nairnfestival.co.uk/

Nairn’s celebration of literature, drama, art and music beside the Moray Firth.

Brewin Dolphin Borders Book Festival
June 17-20
Melrose
http://www.bordersbookfestival.org/thefestival/

Dundee Literary Festival
June 23-27
Dundee
http://www.literarydundee.co.uk/festival.htm

Join us for the 2010 Dundee Literary Festival as we bring together some of the most talked about names from the world of literature, journalism, philosophy and politics. We have workshops, talks, film, theatre, book signings, music and parties. Events will take place at the Dalhousie Building, Old Hawkhill, Dundee.

United States

California

3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival
June 12-13
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
http://www.mxroots.org/

The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival is a non-competitive, annual arts festival dedicated to sharing and nurturing storytelling of the Mixed experience.

Colorado

Aspen Summer Words
June 20-25
Aspen
http://www.aspenwritersfoundation.org/www/aspensummerwords.html

Overall, this summer’s writing workshops, agents and editors, authors, guest workshops, and talent line-up is shaping up to be our best yet!  And if that isn’t enough to whet your appetite, this year’s literary festival will celebrate the literary heritage of the American South, a region as stepped in storytelling as its famous sweet tea.  This year’s theme will fly under the banner ‘Crossroads: a Literary Intersection of the American South,’ and will feature Ernest Gaines, Kathryn Stockett, Nikky Finney, Randall Kenan, Ron Rash, Dorothy Allison and Richard Bausch.

Illinois

Printers Row Book Fair
June 12-13
Chicago
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/events/printersrow/

New York

Cooperstown Antiquarian Book Fair
June 26
Cooperstown
http://sites.google.com/site/cooperstownbookfair/

Read books. They are good for us. -- Natalie Goldberg

Sierra Leone Book List

Alie, Joe A. D. A new history of Sierra Leone (1990)

Beah, Ismael.  A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier (2007)

Campbell, Greg. Blood diamonds: tracing the deadly path of the world’s most precious stones (2002)

Cheney-Coker, Syl. Concerto for an exile: poems (1973)

Cheney-Coker, Syl. The graveyard also has teeth (1980)

Cheney-Coker, Syl. Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990)

Cheney-Coker, Syl. Stone child, and other poems (2008)

Conton, William. The African (1960)

Cosentino, Donald. Defiant maids and stubborn farmers: tradition and invention in Mende story performance (1982)

Dixon-Fyle, Mac and Gibril Cole, editors. New perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio (2006)

Dooling, Richard. White man’s grave: a novel (1994)

Forna, Aminatta. Ancestor stones (2006)

Forna, Aminatta. The devil that danced on the water: a daughter’s memoir of her father, her family, her country, and a continent (2002)

Fyfe, Christopher. Africanus Horton, 1835-1883, West African scientist and patriot (1972)

Gberie, Lansana. A dirty war in West Africa: the RUF and the destruction of Sierra Leone (2005)

Griffiths, Peter. The economist’s tale: a consultant encounters hunger and the World Bank (2003)

Harris, Paul. The secret keeper (2009)

Hill, Lawrence. The book of negroes (2007) (in part)

Jackson, Michael. Barawa and the ways birds fly in the sky: an ethnographic novel (1986)

Jackson, Michael. In Sierra Leone (2004)

Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. Moses, Citizen and me (2005)

Joy, Emily. Green oranges on Lion Mountain (2004)

Kamara, Mariatu, with Susan McClelland. The bite of the mango (2008)

Osagie, Iyunolu Folayan. The Amistad Revolt: memory, slavery, and the politics of identity in the United States and Sierra Leone (2000)

Palmer, Eustace and Abioseh Michael Porter. Knowledge is more than mere words: wey dehn sey? Dehn sey kapu sehns nor kapu word: a critical introduction to Sierra Leonean literature (2008)

Pybus, Cassandra. Epic journeys of freedom: runaway slaves of the American Revolution and their global quest for liberty (2006) (in part)

Stewart, Gary. Black man’s grave: letters from Sierra Leone (2007)

Stewart, Ian. Ambushed: a war reporter’s life on the line (2002)

Voeten, Teun. How de body? One man’s terrifying journey through an African war (2002)

Casablanca, Morocco

Writer Tahir Shah offers an “insider’s guide to Casablanca.”

Six years ago I dragged my wife and two small children from our cramped flat in the East End of London to live in Casablanca. We bought a rambling mansion with five courtyards, gardens and a pool in the middle of the sprawling Sidi Ghanem shantytown. It is quite the most magical spot but the learning curve has been a steep one, especially when we learned that the house was said to be infested from the floor to the rafters with wicked spirits, known as jinn. After lengthy exorcisms and endless renovations, we set about getting to know the city that had become our new home. – from “Of All the Medinas…Insider’s Guide to Casablanca,” by Tahir Shah, The Guardian

Wales

Welsh author Rachel Trezise chooses her “top 10 Welsh underground novels.”

Books that could be described as 'Welsh underground novels for the Skins generation' were once scarce as chicken lips. Remember that there was no such thing as a teenager until the 50s, and that everything comes across the Severn bridge 20 years late. Add the huge hole left in Welsh literature by aspiring writers boarding trains to London and putting memories of the principality firmly behind them from the early 80s onward. Then you'll understand why some of these entries aren't strictly underground, Welsh, or aimed at the Skins generation. But you'll notice too that some of them are. These are the new guard, the brave, hip inkslingers who began cropping up with an extraordinary force in the early noughties. – from “Rachel Trezise’s Top 10 Welsh Underground Novels,” The Guardian

Senegal Book List

Adams, Adrian and Jaabe So. A claim to land by the river: a household in Senegal, 1720-1994 (1996)

Atonson, Rick. To Timbuktu for a haircut: a journey through West Africa (2008) (in part)

Bâ, Mariama. Scarlet song (1985)

Bâ, Mariama. So long a letter (1981)

Babou, Cheikh Anta. Fighting the greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913 (2007)

Barlow, Clive and Tim Wacher. A field guide to birds of the Gambia and Senegal (2005)

Bugul, Ken. The abandoned Baobab: the autobiography of a Senegalese woman (1982)

Busch, Annett and Max Annas, editors. Ousmane Sembéne: interviews (2008)

Clark, Andrew F. and Lucie Colvin Phillips. Historical dictionary of Senegal (1994)

Clément, Catheine and Julia Kristeva. The feminine and the sacred (2001)

Davidson, Basil. A history of West Africa, 1000-1800 (1977)

Diome, Fatou. The belly of the Atlantic (2008)

Diop, Birago. Tales of Amadou Koumba (1947)

Fuller, Hoyt W. Journey to Africa (1971)

Gorer, Geoffrey. African dances (1945)

Harney, Elizabeth. In Senghor’s shadow: art, politics, and the avant-garde in Senegal, 1960-1995 (2004)

Kane, Cheikh Hamidou. Amgibuous adventure (1972)

Ladd, Florence. Sarah’s psalm (1996) (in part)

Lowerre, Susan. Under the Neem tree (1991)

McKnight, Reginald. He sleeps: a novel (2001)

McNee, Lisa. Selfish gifts: Senegalese women’s autobiographical discourses (2000)

Murphy, David. Sembene: imagining alternatives in film and fiction (2000)

Overton, Cleve and Jude Andreasen. The doors of Senegal: Les portes du Senegal (2007)

Roberts, Allen F., et al., editors. A saint in the city: Sufi arts of urban Senegal (2003)

Schaffer, Matt. Djinns, stars, and warriors: Mandinka legends from Pakao, Senegal (2003)

Sembène, Ousmane. Black docker (1956)

Sembène, Ousmane. God’s bits of wood (1960)

Sembène, Ousmane. The last of the empire: a Senegalese novel (1981)

Sembène, Ousmane. The money-order: with, White genesis (1966)

Sembène, Ousmane. Tribal scars and other stories (1974)

Sembène, Ousmane. Xala (1973)

Senghor, Léopold. The collected poetry (1991)

Senghor, Léopold. The mission of the poet (1966)

Senghor, Léopold. S. Nocturnes (1961)

Senghor, Léopold. Of African socialism (1961)

Senghor, Léopold. Prose and poetry, selected by John Reed and Clive Wake (1965)

Senghor, Léopold. S. Selected poems (1976)

Sertima, Ivan Van, editor. Cheikh Anta Diop (1986)

Snipe, Tracy D. Arts and politics in Senegal, 1960-1996 (1998)

Stringer, Susan. The Senegalese novel by women: through their own eyes (1996)

Vaillant, Janet G. Black, French, and African: a life of Léopold Sédar Senghor (1990)

Webster, James Bertin. Revolutionary years: West Africa since 1800 (1981)

Rwanda Book List

Barnett. Michael N. Eyewitness to genocide: the United Nations and Rwanda (2002)

Burleson, Derick and Ronald Wallace. Ejo: poems, Rwanda, 1991-1994 (2000)

Carr, Rosamond Halsey. Land of a thousand hills: my life in Rwanda (2000)

Dallaire, Romo and Samantha Power. Shake hands with the devil: the failure of humanity in Rwanda (2003)

De la Bédoyère, Camilla. No one loved gorillas more: Dian Fossey, letters from the mist (2005)

Diop, Boubacar Boris. Murambi: the book of bones (2006)

Eckhart, Gene. Mountain gorillas: biology, conservation, and coexistence (2008)

Ensign, Margee M. and William E. Bertrand. Rwanda: history and hope (2010)

Fossey, Dian. Gorillas in the mist (1983)

Gourevitch, Philip. We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families (1998)

Hatzfeld, Jean. The antelope’s strategy: living in Rwanda after the genocide (2009)

Hatzfeld, Jean. Into the quick of life: the Rwandan genocide: the survivors speak: a report (2005)

Hatzfeld, Jean. Life laid bare: the survivors in Rwanda speak (2006)

Hatzfeld, Jean. Machete season: the killers in Rwanda speak: a report (2005)

Ilibagiza, Immaculée. Led by faith: rising from the ashes of the Rwandan genocide (2008)

Joris, Lieve. The rebels’ hour (2008) (in part)

Keane, Fergal. Season of blood: a Rwandan journey (1995)

Kinzer, Stephen. A thousand hills: Rwanda’s rebirth and the man who dreamed it (2008)

Larson, Catherine Claire. As we forgive: stories of reconciliation from Rwanda (2009)

Lyons, Robert, photographer; introduction and interviews by Scott Straus. Intimate enemy: images and voices of the Rwandan genocide (2006)

Malvern, Linda. Conspiracy to murder: the Rwandan genocide (2006)

Matthews, Tom. Light shining through the mist: a photobiography of Dian Fossey (1998)

Mushikiwabo, Louise. Rwanda means the universe: a native’s memoir of blood and bloodlines (2006)

Neuffer, Elizabeth. The key to my neighbor’s house: seeking justice in Bosnia and Rwanda (2001) (in part)

Pierce, Julian R. Speak Rwanda: a novel (1999)

Rusesabagina, Paul. An ordinary man: an autobiography (2006)

Sebarenzi, Joseph. God sleeps in Rwanda: a journey of transformation (2009)

Sibomana, Andre. Hope for Rwanda: conversations with Laure Guilbert and Herve Deguine (1999)

Strauss, David Levi and Ben Okri; Alfredo Jaar editor. Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998 (1998)

Tadjo, Veronique. The shadow of Imana: travels in the heart of Rwanda (2002)

Temple-Raston, Dina. Justice on the grass: three Rwandan journalists, their trial for war crimes, and a nation’s quest for redemption (2005)

Webber, Bill and Amy Vedder. In the kingdom of gorillas: fragile species in a dangerous land (2001)

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)

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