Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive and he is one of the powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show his weakness. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, he takes violent action. Will the great man's pride eventually destroy him?

Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece.

Azaro is a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to stay in the world of the living.

Longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes by a talented young Nigerian writer.

Ezeulu, the chief priest of Ulu, has rivals in the tribe, in the white government and even in his own family. Surrounded by trouble, he adopts an increasingly cosmic view of events - surely in the battle of the dieties, he is merely an arrow in the bow of his God?

Traces the ironic development and consequences of 'progress' through both the themes and the tone of the works in this volume of the author's plays. It contains: The Lion and the Jewel , Kongi's Harvest , The Trials of Brother Jero , Jero's Metamorphosis , and Madmen and Specialists .

Based on the real events that took place in the ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria in 1946, this play tells how Simon Pilkings, a district officer, intervenes to prevent the ritual suicide demanded by the death of the King. There follow drastic repercussions in both indigenous and colonial communities.

This novel was included in Anthony Burgess's personal selection of the 99 best novels in English since 1939.

Tells the tale of a prince and a maiden in a mythical land where a golden age is ending. This title considers the important questions we face, exploring creativity, wisdom, suffering and transcendence in a time when imagination still ruled the world.

Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. She spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the half-and-half child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can't shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes. This is a novel about spirits, twins and an extraordinary little girl.

The Nobel Prize-winner's classic work of childhood autobiography.

A stunning novel about a child-soldier in Africa that introduces a brilliant young writer and will be much discussed.

Offers a frightening look at oil-boom Nigeria, a world of robberies, road blocks and intimidation in which those who are meant to be protecting a country's citizens are in reality supervising the looting.

In the small Nigerian village of Keti live Mamo and LaMamo, twin sons of a domineering father. When one day the boys try and escape the village, only LaMamo succeeds. Mamo, too sickly to leave, remains in Keti finding solace in the arms of Zara while watching impotently as his detested father grows powerful and corrupt.

This novel about Nigeria prophesied the 1983 coup.

Presents a collection of stories from The Far East, Europe, the Americas, and Africa. These stories reflect the way we live; exploring the universal need to establish family and identity in a world where the boundaries of geography, culture and language are increasingly fluid.

The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic 'Ake: The Years of Childhood' with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland.

Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa.