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• Tale of two Africas

  "The two writers who represent to me the bursting buds of young African literature--writing in English but supremely of Negro Africa are Noni Jabavu, Xhosa of South Africa, and Chinua Achebe, the Ibo of Nigeria.
• Heinemann

  [List of publications for the Heinemann African Writer's Series.]
• Literary History

  The African Writers Series launched by Heinemann in 1962 made a vast contribution to the popularity of the continent's most renowned authors both in the UK and Africa itself.
• Index of Books Reviewed

  Achebe, Chinua. Hopes and Impediments--Selected essays 1965-87.
• Heinemann

  Chinua Achebe Arrow of God by the author of "Things Fall Apart"
• The growth of African publishing

  According to traditional Yoruba belief, Ile Ife is the original home of mankind. In the beginning, it was the hunting grounds of the gods who descended to it from the sky by a spider's web.
• The great and the cheese-paring

  The late 1880s and 1890s saw the arrival of an unusually forceful generation of British publishers: J.M. Dent, Bodley Head, Osgood Mcllvlane, T. Fisher Unwin, Edward Arnold, Methuen, Leonard Smithers, William Heinemann.
• Heinemann

  This paperback series is now acknowledged as one of the outstanding publishing achievements of the decade. It contains most of the best African writing in English from all parts of Africa, including Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, South Africa, Kenya, Sierra Leone, the Cameroons, Uganda, Senegal, and the Sudan.