World Geography and Cultures © 2008

Unit 7: Africa South of the Sahara

Literature Connections

Glencoe Literature: The Reader's Choice
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from All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou
All That You Have Given Me, Africa by Anoma Kanié
Anansi's Fishing Expedition translated by Harold Courlander and George Herzog
Bones by Sadru Kassam
Chief Sekoto Holds Court by Bessie Head
Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe
Civilian and Soldier by Wole Soyinka
Dead Men's Path by Chinua Achebe
Edju and the Two Friends translated by Paul Radin
from Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
from Kaffir Boy in America by Mark Mathabane
Life in Benin: from Equiano's Travels by Olaudah Equiano
from The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
A Mild Attack of Locusts by Doris Lessing
My Country by Zindziswa Mandela
Night of Sine by Léopold Sédar Senghor
from Omeros by Derek Walcott
The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses by Bessie Head
The Rain Came by Grace Ogot
The Return by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
from Songs for Signare by Léopold Sédar Senghor
The Story of the Dress that Sang translated by A. W. Cardinall
from Sundiata: from The Lion's Awakening retold by D. T. Niane
from Tales of the Islands by Derek Walcott
Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka
The Train from Rhodesia by Nadine Gordimer
Tribal Scars or the Voltaique by Ousmane Sembène
Village People by Bessie Head
The Voter by Chinua Achebe
Where Are Those Songs? by Micere Githae Mugo
You Will Forget by Chenjerai Hove