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Thanks for creating this list, Aubrey!

This is a list I want to return to for reading ideas. There are so many here that interest me just from the title.

Lisa wrote: "Thanks for creating this list, Aubrey!"

Happy to funnel my listing addiction along constructive pathways, Lisa.

Aubrey, this is a great list. Thank you.

Nabse and friends: Yohannes Ishi does not belong on this list as it is not part of the African Writer's Series. This is not intended for self-promotion.

My pleasure, Diane. I've removed the non-African Writer's Series work.

That is an excellent list!

I think Disgrace doesn't belong on this list. (Tho' Wikipedia admits the list is incomplete.)

The list needs to be cleaned again because some books aren't a part of the AWS. For example Os Transpatentes.

Also I don't know if you (Aubrey?) want to keep this list specific to Heinemann's AWS because, from what I have read there have been multiple such as Longman’s Drumbeat, Fontana’s Africa series, and Oxford’s Three Crowns. I think the book The Beggars' Strike is a part of Longman's AWS. Here is a recent article that mentions this...
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roun...

I see that a few more "Goodreads Authors" have decided to promote their non-AWS books here.

Ryan wrote: "Also I don't know if you (Aubrey?) want to keep this list specific to Heinemann's AWS because, from what I have read there have been multiple such as Longman’s Drumbeat, Fontana’s Africa series, an..."

I'm not a librarian anymore (GRAmazon doesn't like it when readers point out flaws in their draconian policies regarding pen names), so if someone wants to make this list more in line with its intent and less of a capitalistic trash heap, I'll leave it to them.

Oh bother, coming back here to check on something, I can see that there are heaps of books that don't belong. It is meant to be *only* books that were issued as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series from 1962 until it lapsed and was then restarted by Pearson Education. It now includes Longman Writers series too.
It is not meant to be an 'African reading list', there are plenty of other lists like that at GR.
Unfortunately the AWS list at Wikipedia says it's not complete, but I used that as a guide to what should be here, and then did an additional search for any titles not listed there, and if the book wasn't ever published by Heinemann or Longman as part of the series, I've deleted them. They seem to be mostly *sigh* self-published books though there were a couple of others from mainstream publishers.
I'd be grateful if others who want to add to the list stick to using that too.
PS I have spent over two hours carefully checking every single book in the list and I really don't want to do it again. If books are added that shouldn't be there, please let me know here which title it is that needs to be removed, thanks.