Best of
African-Literature
1964
The African Trilogy
Chinua Achebe - 1964
Picador 1988, the famous African Trilogy by the recently late Chinua Achebe, 'the man whose writing redefined Colonialism' Achebe was a towering literary figure whose work always repays the reader.
We Killed Mangy-Dog and Other Stories
Luís Bernardo Honwana - 1964
These short stories are all set in Mozambique.
Weep Not, Child
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - 1964
Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up.Weep Not, Child is Ngũgĩ’s first novel, published in 1964.