African

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's "A Grain of Wheat"


  Encapsulates the literary period by detailing the struggles of Kenyans during the Mau Mau Uprising
• Nadine Gordimer's "July's People"


  Represents the social changes in apartheid-era South Africa through the characters' experiences of societal upheaval and transition
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Half of a Yellow Sun"


  Portrays the cultural and historical aspects of post-colonial Africa by detailing the experiences of the Nigerian Civil War (Biafran War)
• Wole Soyinka's plays


  Reflect the colonial and post-colonial African experience through the characters by critiquing the legacy of colonialism and its lasting impacts
• Tsitsi Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions"


  Reveals about the social dynamics of 20th-century Zimbabwe through the portrayal of family dynamics and generational conflicts