New York: The Ungar Publishing, (1986). Covers the literatures of Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malagasy, Malawi, Mali, Mauritia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Reunion, Sao Tome, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Upper Volta, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Among the authors included are Ferdinand Oyono, Yusuf Idris, Najib Mahfuz, Lenrie Peters, Ayi Kwei Armah, Kofi Awoonor, Camara Laye, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Thomas Mofolo, Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Gabriel Okara, Wole Soyinka, Amos Tutuola, Birago Diop, Ousmane Sembene, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Nuruddin Farah, Peter Abrahams, Dennis Brutus, Roy Campbell, Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, Alex La Guma, S Ezekiel (Es'kia) Mphalele, Alan Paton, William Plomer, Olive Schreiner, Okot p'Bitek and many others. Index to author articles. x, 245 pp. ISBN: 0-80446362X.