Nairobi: Oxford University Press, 1968. Small octavo. pp (48), stapled in card covers (not issued in hardcover). Light spine sunning, else fine. Includes a long introduction by the translator. A play about the last few days of Chaka Zulu's life.

New York: Africana Publishing Corporation, 1972. Octavo, green cloth. Front cover has a ding to top edge and a short abrasion near bottom, ink owner name at front, else fine. In a later issue jacket, non-pictorial, lime green, mentions the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature on front panel. Jacket has some sunning to spine and inner margin of front panel, else ine. Made from sheets of the 1972 UK second edition (first UK was in 1965).

New York: Readers International, 1982. Review copy with sheet laid in. Dark green boards. Text paper tanned, as always, else fine in jacket. A satirical novel by this Congolese author.

New York: Harper & Row, c1972 (1973). Octavo, cloth & boards. 1989 ink name at front of a Toronto writer and impresario who brought Soyinka to town for a reading; small very mild bump to upper outer corner of front cover, else fine. Price-clipped dust jacket has nick at head of lightly sunned spine, very small rubbed spot to rear panel; near fine otherwise. The 1986 Nobel Laureate for literature was arrested by Nigerian authorities for criticizing the government's actions at the time of the civil war over the succession of Biafra.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. Tan boards. pp (159). Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has some spine sunning, VG otherwise. Ghanian author.

New York: Oxford, 1996. Octavo, cloth & boards. Review copy for Canada, with large rubber stamp on title page. Review sheets laid in. Ink name & date at front, else fine in fine jacket.

London: Deutsch, 1969. Uncorrected proo in pale grey card covers. Very light spine yellowing; light yellowing and foxing to page edges; else fine. Good illustrations. Folk tales from Ghana.

London / Ibadan: Oxford, 1965. pp (6), 101, [3]. Ink name and sticker scar to front free endpaper, else a fine copy of this play by the 1986 Nobel Laureate. A Three Crowns paperback.

Moshi, Tanzania: Kibo Art Gallery, 1965. Octavo. 32 pp, stapled, in card covers. Scar from removed sticker to front cover, VG otherwise. "The play deals frankly with one of facets of emancipation of women. It portrays life in a Kikuyu village, Kanyariri. The initiation ceremony referred to in the play is that of female circumcision..." - publisher's introduction. Njau's novel ALONE WITH THE FIG TREE won the East African Literature Bureau's 1964 prize for best novel. Very scarce.

Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2005. Octavo, card covers (not issued in hardcover). Ink name at front, else fine. A novel of homosexual love set in South Africa by this noted South African author.

New York: Readers International, 1988. Yellow boards. Text paper yellowed, as always, else fine. Jacket spine slightly sunned, else fine. A novel by one of the leaders of the resistance to Portuguese rule of Angola.

London: Oxford, 1964. 12mo, card covers. Spine very lightly sunned, a little rubbing to spine folds, VG+ uncreased copy otherwise, no owner names. Erratum slip tipped in. Nigerian author.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. Green cloth. pp (6), 215. Sunning to extreme edges of covers, yellowing to page edges, else fine in very nearly fine jacket. South African writer resident in the USA.

North Haven, CT: Linnet Books, 1998. Octavo, black cloth. (xx), 138 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket, and INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. With promotional sheet laid in giving a capsule author biography. "Twenty tales from the Republic of Benin give a first-hand look at the life beliefs of the Fon, a West African people. As the former Kingdom of Dahomey, Benin was a jumping-off point for the slave trade of the seventeenth century. Remnants of its culture, therefore, are today the heritage of man y black people in the United States, Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, and other Caribbean countries." - jacket.

New York: Twayne, 1973. Maroon cloth, maroon endpapers. 183 pp. Fine copy. Dust jacket has some wear to spine tips; light tanning; VG otherwise. A study of this important Nigerian author, number 256 in Twayne's World Authors Series.