CHAPTER I: AFRICAN LITERATURE UNLOCKED
●  Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)
●  Franz Fanon (1925-1961)
Nigeria:
●  Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
●  Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017)
●  Wole Soyinka (1934*)
●  Ben Okri (1959*)
●  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977*)
●  Chigozie Obioma (1986*)
Kenya:
●  Ngügí wa Thiong'o (1938*):
●  G. Vassanji (1950*):
South Africa:
●  Olive Schreiner (1855-1920)
●  Alan Paton (1903-1988)
●  J. M. Coetzee (1940*)
●  Athol Fugard (1932*)
●  Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014)
●  Es'kia Mphahlele (1919-2008)
●  Dennis Brutus (1924-2009)
●  Miriam Tali (1933-2017)
Zimbabwe:
● Tsitsi Dangarembga (1959*)
Somalia:
● Nuruddin Farah (1945*)
Botswana:
● Bessie Head (1937-1986)
Sudan:
● Tayeb Salih (1929-2009)
Ghana:
● Kofi Awooner (1936-2013)
Uganda:
●  Okot p'Bitek (1931-1982)
●  Nil Lazarus (British):
 
CHAPTER II: CARIBBEAN AFRICAN & AMERICAN LITERATURE UNLOCKED
St Lucia:
● Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
Trinidad and Tobago:
●  C. L. R. James (1901-1989)
●  Samuel Selvon (1923-1994)
●  V. S. Naipaul (1932-2018)
●  Earl Lovelace (1935*)
●  Kenneth Ramchand(1939*)
●  Lawrence Scott (1943*)
Barbados:
●  Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020)
●  Austin Clarke (1934-2016)
●  George Lamming (1927-2022)
●  Paule Marshall (1929-2019)
●  Anthony Kellman (1955*)
Antigua:
●  Jamaica Kincaid (1949*):
●  Marie-Elena John:
Jamaica:
●  Claude McKay (1890-1948)
●  Una Mason (1905-1965)
●  Olive Senior (1941*)
●  Louise Bennett (1919-2006)
●  Orlando Patterson (1940*)
●  Marlon James (1970):
Dominica:
●  Jean Rhys (1890-1979)
●  Lennox Honychurch (1952*)
Kittitian:
● Caryl Phillips (1958) Guyana:
●  Cyril Dabydeen (1945*)
●  David Dabydeen (1955*)
Haitian:
● Edwidge Danticat (1969*)
CHAPTER III: AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE UNLOCKED
●  Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
●  Jupiter Hammon (1711-1906)
●  William Wells Brown (1814-1884)
●  Victor Séjour (1817-1874)
●  Frank J. Webb (1828-1894)
●  Harriet E. Wilson (1825-1900)
●  Hannah Crafts (1830-18??)
●  Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the
Lowly (1852):
●  Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
●  Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
●  The Harlem Renaissance
●  Richard Wright (1908-1960)
●  James Baldwin (1924-1987)
●  Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
●  Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
●  Malcolm X (1925-1965)
●  Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
●  Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
●  Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
●  Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
●  Alice Walker (1944*)
●  Alex Haley (1921-1992)
●  Amiri Baraka (1934-2014)
●  August Wilson (1935-2005)
●  Ishmael Reed (1939*)
●  Jamaica Kincaid (1949*)
●  Paule Marshall (1929-2019)
●  Rita Dove (1952*)
●  Ed Bullins (1935*)
●  Ntozake Shange (1948-2018)
●  Edward P . Jones (1950*)