Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1969. Small abrasion to upper edge of rear free endpaper, else fine. Orange price-clipped jacket has nicks to tips of faded spine; fading to inner and upper margins of front panel; VG o/w. Second novel of this Malawi author.

London, Ibadan, Nairobi: Oxford University Press, 1967. Small octavo, card covers. pp [2], (3), [1], 90, [2]. Ink name and date at front, VG+ clean uncreased copy otherwise. A play. Soyinka won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature.

London: Heinemann, 1966. Card covers. pp 152. Yellowing and foxing to page edges, a little leaned, corner crease to rear cover, VG otherwise. African Writers Series 19. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.

London: Macmillan, 1968. Octavo, brown boards. pp 209, (5). Text paper lightly toned, yellowing to page edges, very small bump to upper outer corners of covers, else a fine copy, no owner names. Thin black dust jacket has mild rubbing to spine tips and outer corners; light yellowing and sunning to the spine lettering; soft crease to upper front panel; near fine otherwise, flap price intact. Discusses Wole Soyinka, John Pepper Clark, Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola, Cyprian Ekwensi, T.M. Aluko, Elechi Amadi, Nkem Nwankwo, Flora Nwapa, Onuora Nzekwu, and Gabriel Oara.

Tema, Ghana: Ghana Publishing Corporation, 1974. Octavo, blue cloth. pp xxviii, 146, [2]. Covers a bit bowed; front and rear cover streaked by damp; VG clean and unworn otherwise. Thin orange dust jacket has lightly sunned spine; a bit rippled from damp; VG otherwise. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "for my friend___- with admiration and gratitude for all the help and the call to Canada. (Atukweit Okai) 13/9/79." The inscribee is a Toronto writer and impresario who brought him to Toronto for a reading.

New York: Random, 1988. Cloth and boards. Small red remainder dot to top page edges, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. His first book since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.

New York: Random, 1988. Cloth and boards. Fine copy, no remainder mark. Jacket has minor rubbbing, spine very slightly sunned, else fine, flap price intact. His first book since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. Blue boards. Fine in very nearly fine jacket. A first novel by this South African writer.

London (1970?): Longman, 1972. Small octavo, black & white card covers. pp (8), 133.. Spine lightly yellowed, rubbing to spine folds, half-title leaf has a bookstore rubber stamp and upper outer corner clipped away , soft crease to fore margin of front cover and to earlier leaves, else a VG clean and tight copy. A collection of short stories, the third book of this Ghanian writer. A scholar of this author has told us that this must be a later printing of no earlier than 1972, as there are no blank leaves between the stories. There is no indication in the book of it being a later printing, only "First published 1970". Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.

London: Heinemann, 1964. The paperbound issue. VG+ clean, tight, uncreased copy, no owner names. African Writers Series 11. A novel of Yorubaland by a Nigerian author.

Nairobi: East Arican Publishing House, 1968. 12mo. pp (104). Fine copy. A collection of poetry by this Ugandan author.

Harlow, Essex, England: Longman, 1988. Octavo, card covers. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR in Toronto in 1989, to a Toronto writer and impresario who brought her to Toronto for a reading, with his 1989 ink name at top. Text paper little toned, as always, else fine. Longman African Classics series. Previously published in 1977.

London: Oxford, 1966. 16mo, card covers. Sticker shadow on front cover, VG clean and uncreased copy otherwise, no owner names. Nigerian author.

New York: Thomas Nelson, 1970. Black cloth. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has some sunning to spine and margins of front panel, else fine.

London and Columbia, Louisiana: Readers International, 1988. Octavo, yellow boards. pp (4), 215, [1], (4, ads). Light yellowing to text paper, as always, else fine. Light sunning to the yellow spine lettering, else ine. Review copy with sheet laid in. This South African's first collection of stories to be published outside of Africa.

London: Heinemann, 1969. Advance uncorrected proof. Tan non-pictorial card covers. Bruise to upper outer corner throughout, else fine. Front cover is rubber stamped with the publication year and the price for the hardcover and for the paper issue iis provided by hand in ink. A first novel from the Ugandan author in a very scarce advance format.

Niarobe, Kenya: East Arican Publishing House, 1966. 12mo, card covers. 216 pp. Book a little leaned, soft cover creases, light yellowing to page edges, VG otherwise, no owner names. Satirical poetry by this Ugandan author.

London and Accra: Oxford, 1964. 12mo. (vi), 53 pp, in card covers (not issued in hardcover). Small ink name to first page, else a fine copy of this African play. Noted playwright from Ghana. His grandfather was Dutch, thus the family name. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

New York: The Third Press / Joseph Okpaku Publishing Company, 1972. Orange cloth. pp (xvi), 79. Bit of sunning to foot of spine and adjacent front cover, else fine. Jacket has one tiny chip; orange spine lettering sunned to grey; tear to rear panel neatly repaired; VG otherwise.. Gordimer foreword occupies pp xi-xv. South African author's first book.

Nairobi, Kenya: University of Nairobi Press, no date (ca 1973?). Squarish octavo, white card covers. (60) pages, unpaged. Drawings throughout. Comb binding perished, holes sewn with thread. Covers very lightly yellowed and dusty, VG+ otherwise. A collection of poetry dedicated "to all of my Students". Edition of 300 copies.