Books in the Heinemann African Writers Series: Classics series

An intense novel written in the form of a letter sent to Ramatoulaye, who has recently been widowed.

'...The story is the tragedy of Okonkwo, an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first appearing on the scene ... a very simple but excellent novel'. The Observer Also available in an extended edition including essays, maps and illustrations

Achebe uses the 'fall' of one man, a descendent of the hero in Things Fall Apart, to depict the birth of a whole new age in Nigerian life - one ruled by the most powerful and disillusioning corruption. This edition includes an introduction by Simon E. Gikandi, Professor of English at Princeton University.

Margaret Cadmore, an orphaned Masarwa girl, comes to Dilepe to teach, only to discover that in this remote Botswana village her people are treated as outcasts. '... change the world on the basis of love of mankind.' Bessie Head

In the heart of rural Botswana, the poverty stricken village of Golema Mmidi is a haven to exiles from far and wide. A South African political refugee and an Englishman join forces to revolutionise the villagers' traditional farming methods, but their task is fraught with hazards as the pressures of tradition.

Nnu Ego is devoted to her children, giving them all her life - with the result that she finds herself friendless and alone in middle age.