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Niq Mhlongo’s top 15 books from the African Writers Series

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Niq Mhlongo has shared his top 15 books from the legendary Heinemann African Writers Series.

Mhlongo is a known fan of the famous series, and at the Time of the Writer Festival in Durban this year he said it was a great influence on his writing.

“I grew up reading only the African Writers Series,” he said. “So when people talk about Charles Dickens, I’ve never even read him. It didn’t interest me at all. I grew up reading African writers. I read everything that was African.”

Read: ‘I’m not philosophical, I’m just a writer’ – Niq Mhlongo tells it like it is at Time of the Writer

Now Mhlongo has compiled a list of his favourites, and it’s a must see for those wishing to expand their knowledge – as Nozizwe Cynthia Jele comments: “This is the ultimate reading list!”

He writes on Facebook:

Before I studied literature at the Wits University, the only writers I was exposed to (apart from Shakespeare and Orwell) were African writers from the Heinemann African Writers Series. Here is my top 15 books that I adored from the series before I was introduced to other writers from around world.

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Niq Mhlongo’s African Writers Series top 15

Some of the books are currently unavailable from the African Writers Series, and the cheapest edition has been substituted in

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Second Class Citizen

1. Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
EAN: 9780435909918
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Houseboy

2. Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono
EAN: 9780435905323
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Nervous Conditions

3. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
EAN: 9780954702335
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Going Down River Road

4. Going Down River Road by Meja Mwangi
EAN: 9780982012635
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The African Child

5. The African Child by Camara Laye
EAN: 9780006122593
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The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born

6. The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah
EAN: 9780435905408
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The Marabi Dance

7. The Marabi Dance by Modikwe Diboke
EAN: 9780435901240
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Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary

8. Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
EAN: 9780435902407
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House of Hunger

9. House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera
EAN: 9780435895983
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Afrika My Music

10. Afrika My Music: An Autobiography 1957-1983 by Es’kia Mphahlele
EAN: 9780869752371
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Call Me Woman

11. Call Me Woman by Ellen Kuzwayo
EAN: 9780958470827
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God\'s Bits of Wood

12. God’s Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane
EAN: 9780435909598
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Mine Boy

13. Mine Boy by Peter Abrahams
EAN: 9780435905620
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Mhudi

14. Mhudi by Sol Plaatje
EAN: 9780143185406
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Chaka

15. Chaka by Thomas Mofolo
EAN: 9780435902292
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