Modern Black writers

Authors by country: Barbados. Brathwaite, Edward

Lamming, George

Benin. Bhêly-Quénum, Olympe

Cameroon. Beti, Mongo

Oyono, Ferdinand

Congo. U Tam'si, Tchicaya

French Guiana. Damas, Léon-Gontran

Gambia. Peters, Lenrie

Ghana. Aidoo, Ama Ata

Armah, Ayi Kwei

Awoonor, Kofi

Guinea. Camara, Laye

Guyana. Harris, Wilson

Mittelholzer, Edgar

Haiti. Alexis, Jacques-Stéphen

Marcelin, Pierre

Roumain, Jacques

Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe

Ivory Coast. Dadié, Bernard Binlin

Jamaica. McKay, Claude

Kenya. Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Lesotho. Mofolo, Thomas

Martinique. Césaire, Aimé

Maran, René

Nigeria. Achebe, Chinua

Aluko, Timothy

Amadi, Elechi

Clark, John Pepper

Ekwensi, Cyprian

Nzekwu, Onuora

Okara, Gabriel

Okigbo, Christopher

Soyinka, Wole

Tutuola, Amos

Rhodisia. Brutus, Dennis

Senegal. Diop, Birago

Diop, David

Kane, Cheikh Hamidou

Sembéne, Ousmane

Senghor, Léopold Sédar

South Africa. Abrahams, Peter

Jordan, A. C.

Kunene, Mazisi

La Guma, Alex

Mphahlel, Ezekiel

Mqhayi, S. E. K.

Plaatje, Sol T.

Vilakazi, B. W.

St. Lucia. Walcott, Derek

Trinidad and Tobago. Anthony, Michael

Uganda. p'Bitek, Okot

United States. Attaway, William

Baldwin, James

Baraka, Amiri

Bontemps, Arna

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Brown, Sterling A.

Bullins, Ed

Chesnutt, Charles W.

Cullen, Countee

Demby, William

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

Ellison, Ralph

Gaines, Ernest J.

Hansberry, Lorraine

Hayden, Robert

Himes, Chester

Hughes, Langston

Hurston, Zora Neale

Johnson, James Weldon

Kelley, William Melvin

Killens, John Oliver

Morrison, Toni

Reed, Ishmael

Thurman, Wallace

Tolson, Melvin B.

Toomer, Jean

Walker, Alice

Walker, Margaret

Williams, John A.

Wright, Richard.