In 1947 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. Throughout this novel, written from the workers' perspective, the community social tensions emerge, and increase as the strike lengthens. The author's other novels include Xala and Black Docker .

Salie lives in Paris. Back home on the Senegalese Island of Niodior, her football-crazy brother, Madicke, counts on her to get him to France, the promised land where foreign footballers become world famous. Given his illusions, how can Salie explain to him the grim reality of life as an immigrant?

This novel is about a Senegalese man's experiences in France.

Winner of the Norma Prize in Africa for her first novel Une si longue lettre

A satire about the downfall of a businessman-polygamist who assumes the role of the colonialist in French-speaking Africa.

In April of 1994, nearly a million Rwandans were killed. This novel recounts the story of a Rwandan history teacher, Cornelius Uvimana, who was living and working in Djibouti at the time of the massacre. He returns to Rwanda to try to comprehend the death of his family and to write a play about the events that took place there.

Argues that growth of the Atlantic trade stimulated the development of slavery within West Africa. Dr Searing's concern is with the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Senegal River Valley in the 18th century.

In 1795, the 24 year old Scottish surgeon Mungo Park set out from the Gambia to trace the Niger's course. This journal records his experiences. Throughout his travels and misadventures the author records what he sees as accuratly as he could, and without presuming European superiority.

Jeffrey Taylor travels 2500 miles across the Sahel by truck, taxi, bus and boat to present a personal account of one of Africa's least-known regions - that of Muslim Africa.

Michael Palin's superb No. 1 bestseller about his incredible voyage across the Sahara.

Creates an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. This book gives a sustained meditation on themosaic of peoples and practices we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination.