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Of the 100 Best Books on the list 3 authors are cited twice: Chinua Achebe for Things Fall Apart and the sequel Arrow
of God; Wole Soyinka for Death and the King's Horsemen and Ake: The Years of Childhood; and Ngugi wa
Thiong'o for Caitaani Mutharabai-ni and A Grain of Wheat. The list includes all three African Nobel Laureates for Literature: Wole Soyinka (1986), Naguib Mahfouz (1988) with The
Cairo Trilogy, and Nadine Gordimer (1991) with Burgher's Daughter; and four presidents: Nelson Mandela (president of South Africa 1994-99) with Long Walk to Freedom,
Jomo Kenyatta (president of Kenya 1964–78) with Facing Mount Kenya, Kwame Nkhrmah (prime minister 1957–60 and
president 1960–66 of Ghana) with Ghana: Autobiographiy of Kwame Nkrumah, and Léopold Sédar Senghor (president of
Senegal from 1960–80) with Oeuvre Poétique. Unfortunately not all of the 100 books are still in print, and some of the rest are not easy to find. Kudos, therefore,
must be extended to Heinemann who list 16 of the titles in their African Writers
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