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Please use the Missing Texts form if you know a primary text that does not appear in the table below but that meets the following critiera:
primary text written by a Liberian author (incl. diaspora authors);
primary text centrally concerned with Liberia;
secondary source that is particularly useful and/or relevant to the study of Liberian Literature.
The aim is to keep the list of genre terms short and simple. The goal, in other words, is not nuanced analysis but a first, broad categorization. The nine labels used in the table are:
1. Autobiography & Memoir
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4. Essays & Speeches
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7. Novel
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2. Children's Literature
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5. Folklore & Oral
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8. Poetry
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3. Drama*
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6. Letters & Travel Writing
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9. Short Story
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* "Drama" also includes radio plays, which have long been an important genre in Liberia.
Year | Author | Title | Genre | Publisher or Source | Download | |
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* | 1823 | Anyonymous | "Hymn (There is a land for ages past)" | Poetry | The African Repository and Colonial Journal (Dec. 1823): 320. / In: Eacklor, Vicki Lynn, ed. American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis. Documentary Reference Collections. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988. 3. | |
* | 1827 | Anonymous: V. | "Ode (Rise, sun of Afric!)" | Poetry | Genius of Universal Emancipation (24 March 1827): 168. / In: Eacklor, Vicki Lynn, ed. American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis. Documentary Reference Collections. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988. 4. | |
* | 1829 | Sigourney, Lydia H. | "Hymn (When injured Afric's captive claim)" (a.k.a. "Self-Reproof") | Poetry | Genius of Universal Emancipation (9 October 1829): 36. / In: Eacklor, Vicki Lynn, ed. American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis. Documentary Reference Collections. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988. 5. | |
* | 1830 | Anonymous: H. C. | "Hymn (Captives in exile growing)" | Poetry | Genius of Universal Emancipation (October 1830): 107-108. / In: Eacklor, Vicki Lynn, ed. American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis. Documentary Reference Collections. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988. 6-7. | |
* | 1832 | Snelling, W. J. | "Hymn: Proper to Be Sung on All Occasions by People of Color Who Do Not Intend to Emigrate to Africa" | Poetry | Liberator (13 October 1832): 163. / In: Eacklor, Vicki Lynn, ed. American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis. Documentary Reference Collections. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988. 7-8. | |
* | 1833 | Anonymous: G— | "The Voice of Liberia" | Poetry | The African Repository and Colonial Journal 9.11 (1833-34): 288. | download |
1833 | Bayley, Solomon | A Brief Account of the Colony of Liberia | Letters & Travel Writing | Wilmington: Porters and Mitchell, 1833. | ||
1833 -1866 | Various | [letters] | Letters & Travel Writing | In: Bell Irvin Wiley, ed. Slaves No More: Letters from Liberia, 1833-1866. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1980. | ||
* | 1834 | Anonymous | "Mr. Prejudice" | Poetry | Liberator (31 May 1834): 87. / In: Eacklor, Vicki Lynn, ed. American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis. Documentary Reference Collections. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988. 8-9. | |
* | 1834 | Sigourney, L. H. | "Death of a Missionary to Liberia" | Poetry | Poems. Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1834. 227. | |
* | 1834 | Tappan, William B. | "Chapel in Liberia" | Poetry | The Poems of William B. Tappan. Philadelphia: Henry Perkins, 1834. 240-241. | |
1834 -1865 | Skipwith, Peyton et al. | [letters] | Letters & Travel Writing | In: Randall M. Miller. "Dear Master": Letters of a Slave Family. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978. / Rev. and expanded ed. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1990. (Brown Thrasher Books) | ||
1835 | Wilson, Beverly R. | "[Liberia! Happy Land!]" | Poetry | in: The New Republic. 1850. 2nd ed. Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1851. 133. / in: A. Doris Banks Henries, ed. Poems of Liberia: 1836-1961. 4-5. | download | |
1836 | Teage, Hilary | "Hymn." | Poetry | Liberia Herald (date unknown) / The African Repository and Colonial Journal 12 (1836): 231. / as "Hymn: December 1, 1836" in: A. Doris Banks Henries, ed. Poems of Liberia: 1836-1961. 2-4. | download | |
1842 | Teage, Hilary | "Land of the mighty dead!" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 12.2 (23.12.1842): 8. / The African Repository and Colonial Journal 19 (1843): 191-192. | download | |
1843 | Thompson, Mary W. | "Ethiop's sons their home are seeking" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 12.6 (3.5.1843): 24. | download | |
1843 | Anonymous: S—. | "Lines to My Wife" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 12.8 (30.09.1843): 32. | download | |
1845 | Anonymous | "Catch the Proud Spirit" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 14.5 (28.11.1845): 20. | download | |
1847 | Wall, H. L. | "Lines Written on Seing Cape Mount" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 16.2 (2.12.1847): 8. | download | |
1847 | Warner, Daniel B. | "National Anthem." | Poetry | in: D. Elwood Dunn, Amos J. Beyan and Carl Patrick Burrowes, eds. Historical Dictionary of Liberia. 1985. 2nd ed. African Historical Dictionaries 83. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2001. 240-241. / in: A. Doris Banks Henries, ed. Poems of Liberia: 1836-1961. 7. | ||
* | 1848 | Anonymous | "Colonization Song to the Free Colored People" | Poetry | In: Brown, William W., ed. The Anti-Slavery Harp. Boston: Bela Marsh, 1848. 17-18. / In: Eacklor, Vicki Lynn, ed. American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis. Documentary Reference Collections. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988. 9-10. | |
1848 | Stryker, R. L. | "Hail this day Liberia's sons" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 16.11 (25.8.1848): 44 | download | |
* | 1848 | Tupper, Martin Farquhar | "A National Anthem for Liberia in Africa: Being a Freewill Offering in the Cause of Wise Emancipation" | Poetry | first published in 1848; in: Liberia Herald 17.5 (28.2.1849): 44 (name misprinted as "Ferquhar"; title misprinted as "Aerica") / also in: Ballads for the Times, Geraldine, Hactenus, A thousand lines, and Other Poems. Philadelphia, E. H. Butler, 1852. 98-99. | download |
1848 -2010 | Various | [speeches by various presidents] | Essays & Speeches | D. Elwood Dunn, ed. The Annual Messages of the Presidents of Liberia 1848-2010: State of the Nation Addresses to the National Legislature, from Joseph Jenkins Roberts to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2011. |
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1849 | Stryker, R. L. (? - only initials given: R. L. S.) | "The Lone Star" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 17.11 (28.09.1849): 44 | download | |
1849 | Anonymous: T. G. S. | "Reflections" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 17.12 (19.10.1849): 48 | download | |
1849 | Anonymous: T. G. S. | "Lines Adopted to the Condition of the Surrounding Tribes" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 18.1 (20.11.1849): 48 | download | |
* | 1850 | Tupper, Martin Farquhar | "The Liberian Church: A Sonnet" | Poetry | In: American Courier / Liberia Herald 1.2 (21.8.1850): 6 | download |
1851 | Anonymous: S. | "We mourn for the youthful dead" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 2.7 (6.11.1851): 23 | download | |
1851 -1863 | Washington, Augustus | Five Letters on Liberian Colonization (1851-1863) | Letters & Travel Writing | In: Wilson Jeremiah Moses, ed. Liberian Dreams: Back-to-Africa Narratives from the 1850s. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. 179-224. | ||
1851 -1910 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | Selected Letters | Letters & Travel Writing | Ed,. Hollis Lynch. Milwood: KTO, 1878. | ||
* | 1852 | Junkin, Margaret | "Liberia" | Poetry | he African Repository and Colonial Journal (June 1852): 189. / In: Eacklor, Vicki Lynn, ed. American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis. Documentary Reference Collections. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988. 13-14. | |
* | 1852 | Simpson, Joshua McCarter | "Old Liberia Is Not the Place for Me" | Poetry | Simpson, Joshua McCarter. Original Anti-Slavery Songs. Zanesville: Printed for the author, 1852. 24-27. / In: Eacklor, Vicki Lynn, ed. American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis. Documentary Reference Collections. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988. 10-12. / In: Joan R. Sherman. African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992. 64-66. | |
* | 1852 | Tupper, Martin Farquhar | "The Liberian Beacon" | Poetry | Ballads for the Times, Geraldine, Hactenus, A thousand lines, and Other Poems. Philadelphia, E. H. Butler, 1852. 99-100. | |
* | 1852 | Wilder, L. | "Hymn (Father in Heaven above)" | Poetry | The African Repository and Colonial Journal (June 1852): 185. / In: Eacklor, Vicki Lynn, ed. American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis. Documentary Reference Collections. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988. 12-13. | |
1853 | Anonymous | "[Untitled: Sung by the Ladies' Literary Institute at a meeting for President J. J. Roberts upon his return from England to Monrovia, Liberia.]" | Poetry | The African Repository and Colonial Journal (October 1853): 304. / In: Eacklor, Vicki Lynn, ed. American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis. Documentary Reference Collections. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988. 14. | ||
1853 | Anonymous: Africanus | "Come true Liberians" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 3.22 (15.6.1853): 86. | download | |
1853 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | A Voice from Bleeding Africa, on Behalf of Her Exiled Children | Essays & Speeches | Liberia: G. Killian, 1853. | ||
* | 1853 | Hale, Sarah Josepha | Liberia: or, Mr. Peyton's Experiments | Novel | New York: Harper, 1853. | |
1854 | Gibson, R. H. (? - only initials given: R. H. G.) | "Liberian Ministers Praying Fervently, for the Spread of the Gospel over Their Country" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 4.7 (19.7.1854): 21. | download | |
1854 | Gibson, R. H. (? - only initials given: R. H. G.) | "Eulogy on the Institutions of Liberia" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 4.9 (16.8.1854): [4]. | download | |
* | 1854 | Simpson, Joshua McCarter | "Come to Old Liberia" | Poetry | Simpson, Joshua McCarter. The Emancipation Car. Zanesville: E. C. Church, 1854. 89-91. / In: Eacklor, Vicki Lynn, ed. American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis. Documentary Reference Collections. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988. 14-15. | |
1854 | Peterson, Daniel H. | The Looking Glass: Being a True Report and Narrative of the Life, Travels and Labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson | Letters & Travel Writing | In: Wilson Jeremiah Moses, ed. Liberian Dreams: Back-to-Africa Narratives from the 1850s. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. 1-78. | ||
1855 | Anonymous | "Sabbath Morning" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 5.6 (1.7.1855): [4]. | download | |
1855 | Anonymous | "St Pauls River Liberia" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 5.9 (2.8.1855): 21 | download | |
1855 -2000 | Barclay, Anthony | Liberia: Historical Reflections through Selected Independence Day Orations, 1855-2000 | Essays & Speeches | Denver: Outskirts Press, 2017. | ||
* | 1855 | de Wolf, Abby | "Liberia" | Poetry | Heart Poems. Providence: Sayles, Miller & Simons, 1855. 68-71. | |
1855 | Gibson, R. H. | "Africa's Cruelties, Mourned Over" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 5.7 (25.7.1855): [4]. | download | |
1855 | Nesbit, William | Four Months in Liberia: or, African Colonization Exposed. | Letters & Travel Writing | In: Wilson Jeremiah Moses, ed. Liberian Dreams: Back-to-Africa Narratives from the 1850s. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. 79-126. | ||
1856 -1903 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | Black Spokesman: Selected Published Writings of Edward Wilmot Blyden | Essays & Speeches | Ed. Hollis Lynch. London: Frank Cass, 1971. | ||
1856 | Gibson, R. H. | "Jesus Our Redeemer" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 6.12 (3.9.1856): 48 | download | |
1856 | Anonymous | "An Epistle to a Student, on Hearing of His Intention to Marry" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 6.12 (3.9.1856): 48 | download | |
1856 | Anonymous: Africanus | "Stop and Think" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 6.13 (17.9.1856): 52 | download | |
1856 | Anonymous: Saut. | "Ye Must Not Weep for Me" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 6.13 (17.9.1856): 52 | download | |
1856 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | A Voice from Bleeding Africa on Behalf of Her Exiled Children | Essays & Speeches | Monrovia: Killian, 1856. | ||
1857 | Anonymous: Pierre | "The Emigrant's Hymn" | Poetry | Liberia Herald 7.1 (7.1.1857): [4]. | download | |
1857 | Williams, Samuel | Four Years in Liberia: A Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Samuel Williams, with Remarks on the Missions, Manners, and Customs of the Natives of Western Africa. Together with an Answer to Nesbit's Book. | Letters & Travel Writing | In: Wilson Jeremiah Moses, ed. Liberian Dreams: Back-to-Africa Narratives from the 1850s. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. 127-178. | ||
1858 | Seymour, George L. | "Extracts from the Journal of the Journey of George L. Seymour to the Interior of Liberia, 1858" | Letters & Travel Writing | In: James Fairhead et al. African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. 124-155. | ||
1858 | Sims, James L. | "Scenes in the Interior of Liberia: Being a Tour Through the Countries of the Dey, Goulah, Pessah, Barlain, Kpellay, Suloany, and King Boatswain's, Tribes, in 1858" | Letters & Travel Writing | In: James Fairhead et al. African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. 93-123. | ||
* | 1860 | Campbell, Samuel D. | Letter of Rev. Samuel D. Campbell, of Geneva, Alabama, on African Colonization: In Reply to a Review on That subject by Rev. Dr. J.B. Adjer, of South Carolina | Letters & Travel Writing | Hartford: Steam Press, 1860. | download |
1860 (?) | Von Brunn, Jacob | "The Autobiography of Jacob Von Brunn" | Autobiography & Memoir | In: Lindsay, Lisa A. "The Autobiography of Jacob Von Brunn, from African Captive to Liberian Missionary." Slavery & Abolition 37.2 (2016): 446-471. (Transcript of the autobiographical account: 459-466.) | ||
1861 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot and Alexander Crummell | Liberia, the Land of Promise to Free Colored Men | Essays & Speeches | Washington: American Colonization Society, 1861. | download | |
1862 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | Inaugural Address: Proceedings at the Inauguration of Liberia College at Monrovia. | Essays & Speeches | Monrovia: Legislature of the Republic of Liberia, 1862. | ||
1862 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | Liberia's Offering: Being Addresses, Sermons, Etc. | Essays & Speeches | New York: John A. Gray, 1862. 66-91. | ||
* | 1862 | Sigourney, L. H. | "Mrs. Payne" | Poetry | The Man of Uz and Other Poems. Hartford: Williams, Wiley & Waterman, 1862. 171-172. | |
1865 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | Our Origin, Danger, and Duties | Essays & Speeches | New York: Gray and Green, 1865. | ||
1866 | Johnson, Henry W. | "The Pioneers of Liberia" | Poetry | The African Repository 53.1 (1877): 28-29. / In: A. Doris Banks Henries, ed. Poems of Liberia: 1836-1961. 8-9. | download | |
1869 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | Liberia: Past, Present, and Future | Essays & Speeches | Washington DC: McGill and Whiterow, 1869. | ||
1869 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | The Negro in Ancient History | Essays & Speeches | Washington DC: McGill and Witherow, 1869. | download (PDF, 3 MB) | |
1870 | Anderson, Benjamin J. K. | Narrative of a Journey to Musardu, the Capital of the Western Mandingoes | Letters & Travel Writing | New York; S, W, Green, 1870 / In: James Fairhead et al. African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. 156-239. | ||
1873 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | From West Africa to Palestine | Essays & Speeches | Freetown, Sierra Leone: Sawyer, 1873. | download (PDF, 14 MB) | |
1873 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | The People of Africa: A Series of Papers on Their Character, Condition, and Future Prospects | Essays & Speeches | New York: Anson D. S. Randolph, 1873. | download (PDF, 10 MB) | |
1874 | Anderson, Benjamin J. K. | Narrative of the Expedition Dispatched to Musahdu by the Liberian Government under Benjamin J. K. Anderson, Senior, Esquire in 1874 | Letters & Travel Writing | Monrovia: College of West Africa Press, 1912 (ed. Frederick Starr) / In: James Fairhead et al. African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. 240-278. | ||
1874 -1888 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | Letters to Willliam Coppinger. | Letters & Travel Writing | Part I, Series B. American Colonization Society Papers, 1874-88. Washington DC, Library of Congress. | ||
1876 | Anonymous | "America to Africa" | Poetry | Liberia Advocate (date unknown) / The African Repository 52.1 (1876): 28-29. | download | |
* | 1878 | Williams, A. B. | The Liberian Exodus: An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor" and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia – Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects: A Series of Letters from A. B. Williams | Letters & Travel Writing | Charleston: The News and Courier Book Presses, 1878. | download |
1881 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | The Aims and Methods of a Liberal Education for Africans: Inaugural Address Delivered by Edward Wilmot Blyden, LL. D., President of Liberia College, January 5, 1881 | Essays & Speeches | Cambridge MA: John Wilson and Son University Press, 1882 / New York: George Young, 1920 | ||
1883 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot |
The Origin and Purpose of African Colonization: Being the Annual Discourse Delivered at the Sixty-Sixth Anniversary of the American Colonization Society, Held in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., Sunday, January 14, 1883 |
Essays & Speeches | Washington DC: ACS, 1883. | download (PDF, 1 MB) | |
1885 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | "Just Before the Battle" | Poetry | Blyden to Coppinger, 10 July 1885, A.C.S. Papers, vol. 22 / published in: Givens, Willie A. (ed.). Selected Works of Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden. Robertsport: The Tubman Center for African Culture, 1976. 314. | ||
1887 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race | Essays & Speeches | 1887 / 2nd ed. London; Whittingham, 1888. | ||
1890 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | The African Problem, and the Method of Its Solution | Essays & Speeches | Washington DC: Gibson, 1890. | ||
1890 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | The Elements of Permanent Influence: Discourse Delivered in the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C., Sunday, February 17, 1890 | Essays & Speeches | Washington DC: Pendleton, 1890. | ||
1891 | Walters, Joseph Jeffrey | Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess | Novel | Cleveland OH: Lauer and Mattill, 1891 / Eds. Gareth Griffiths and John Victor Singler Peterborough: Broadview Editions, 2004. | download (PDF, 1 MB) | |
* | 1893 | Smith, Amanda | An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist | Autobiography & Memoir | Chicago: Meyer & Brother Publishers, 1893. / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. | |
1898 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | The Jewish Question | Essays & Speeches | Liverpool: Hart, 1898. | ||
1900 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | The Liberian Scholar: An Address, Delivered at the Inauguration of Rev. G. W. Gibbon, D.D., President-Elect of Liberia College, at Monrovia, February 21st, 1900. | Essays & Speeches | Monrovia: s.n., 1900. | ||
1901 | Barclay, Edwin (as Edwin James Barclay) | Collected Poems | Poetry | Monrovia: s.n.,1901. / available online | download (PDF, 1 MB) | |
* | 1900 (?) | Casement, Roger | "Cape Palmas" | Poetry | The Crime Against Europe: The Writings and Poetry of Roger Casement. Ed. Herbert O. Mackey. Dublin: C. J. Fallon, 1958. 219. | download (PDF, 141 KB) |
1901 | Barclay, Edwin | The Slumbers of the Dead | Poetry | Monrovia: s.n., 1901. / available online | download (PDF, 1 MB) | |
1901 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | The African Society and Miss Mary H. Kingsley | Essays & Speeches | London: Scott, 1901. | ||
1903 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | "Africa and the Africans" | Essays & Speeches | In: Africa and the Africans: Proceedings on the Occasion of a Banquet Given at the Holborn Restaurant, August 15th, 1903, to Edward W. Blyden, LL.D., by West Africans in London. London: Phillipps, 1903. 32-48. | ||
1903 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | The Religion for the African | Essays & Speeches | New York; Schomburg, 1903. | ||
* | 1903 | Cook, Will Marion (Music), Paul Laurence Dunbar (Lyrics) & Jesse A. Ship (Book) | In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy | Drama | Thomas L. Riis, ed. The Music and Scripts of In Dahomey. Madison: A-R Editions, 1996. (Recent Researches in American Music 25; Music of the United States of America 5) | |
* | 1904 | Young, Stuart (a.k.a. John Moray Stuart-Young) | Merely a Negress: A West African Story | Novel | London: John Long, 1904. | download |
1905 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | West Africa Before Europe, and Other Addresses | Essays & Speeches | London: Phillips, 1905. | ||
* | 1905 | Griggs, Sutton E. | The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist | Novel | Nashville: Orion, 1905. | |
1906 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | The Significance of Liberia: An Address Delivered in the State Chamber, Monrovia, Liberia, 20th May, 1906 | Essays & Speeches | 1906 / 2nd ed. Liverpool: Richardson and Sons, 1907. | ||
1908 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | African Life and Customs | Essays & Speeches | 1908 / Baltimore: Black Classics, 1994. | ||
1908 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | The Three Needs of Liberia: A Lecture Delivered at Lower Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, Liberia, January 26, 1908 | Essays & Speeches | London: Phillips, 1908. | ||
1909 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | The Problems before Liberia: A Lecture Delivered in the State Chamber at Monrovia, January 18, 1909 | Essays & Speeches | London: Phillips, 1909. | ||
1909 | Karnga, Abayomi | The Negro Republic on West Africa | Essays & Speeches | Monrovia: College of West Africa Press, 1909. | ||
1910 | Barclay, Edwin | Leaves from Love's Garden and Random Rhymes | Poetry | Monrovia: College of West Africa Press, 1910. | download (PDF, 1 MB) | |
1910 | Blyden, Edward Wilmot | The Arabic Bible in the Soudan: A Plea for Transliteration | Essays & Speeches | London: Phillips, 1910. | ||
* | 1917 | Downing, Henry F. | The American Cavalryman: A Liberian Romance | Novel | New York: Neale, 1917. | |
* | 1920 | McGee, Perry Honce | "The Star of Liberia" | Poetry | My Valued Ruby: Poems. Washington, PA: Perry Honce McGee, 1920. 1-2. | |
1923 | Karnga, Abayomi | Liberia Before the World | Essays & Speeches | London: F. T. Phillips, 1923. | ||
1925 (?) | Nassau, Milton | [3 poems] - According to the table of contents, three poems are by Nassau; in the main body of the text, only two are assigned to him. | Poetry | in: A. Doris Banks Henries, ed. Poems of Liberia: 1836-1961. 19-20. | ||
* | 1925 (?) | Wallace, Edgar | Bosambo of the River | Novel | London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1925 (?). | |
1926 | Karnga, Abayomi | History of Liberia | Essays & Speeches | Liverpool: D. H. Tyte, 1926. | ||
* | 1930 | Lubin, Gilbert | The Promised Land | Short Story | Boston: Christopher, 1930. | |
* | 1931 | Schuyler, George S. | Slaves Today: A Story of Liberia | Novel | New York: s.n., 1931 / College Park: McGrath, 1969. / available online | |
* | 1931 | Vandercook, John W. | Forty Stay In | Novel | New York: Harper, 1931. | |
1932 | Karlee, Varfelli (pseudonym of Charles E. Cooper) | Love in Ebony: A West African Romance | Novel | London: John Murray, 1932 / Nendeln: Kraus Reprint, 1970 | download (PDF, 40 MB) | |
* | 1933 | Brooks, Samuel I. (???; pseudonym of Schuyler, George S.) | "Devil Town: An Enthralling Story of Tropical Africa" | Short Story | Pittsburgh Courier, June-July 1933, pp. ?? | |
* | 1936 | Greene, Graham | Journey Without Maps | Letters & Travel Writing | London: Heinemann, 1936. | |
1942 (?) | Cole, Henry B. | The Lady with a Pipe | Novel | unpublished; mentioned in Life Magazine 1942 (?); Nagbe 2005, p. 360. | ||
* | 1947 | Courlander, Harold and George Herzog | The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories | Folklore & Oral | New York: Henry Holt, 1947 | |
1947 | Dempster, Roland T. | [35 poems] | Poetry | In: Roland T Dempster, ed. Echoes from the Valley: Being Odes and Poems by Three Colleagues. Robertsport: The Douglas Muir Printing Office, 1947. 1-45. | ||
1947 | Dempster, Roland T. | The Office Genius | Drama | s.n.: s.l. (cf. Gale 1980, p. 71) | ||
1947 | Moore, Bai T. | [19 poems] | Poetry | In: Roland T Dempster, ed. Echoes from the Valley: Being Odes and Poems by Three Colleagues. Robertsport: The Douglas Muir Printing Office, 1947. 46-58. | ||
1947 | Gibson, Garretson W. | The Constitutional Convention | Drama | s.n.: s.l. (cf. Gale 1980, p. 71) | ||
1947 (?) | Moore, Bai T. | Gola Boy in America | Autobiography & Memoir | s.l.: s.n., 1947 (?). | ||
1947 | Thomas, H. Carey | [12 poems] | Poetry | In: Roland T Dempster, ed. Echoes from the Valley: Being Odes and Poems by Three Colleagues. Robertsport: The Douglas Muir Printing Office, 1947. 59-72. | ||
1951 | Bright, Edith | "The Sudden Tragedy: An Elegy" | Poetry | In: Anthology of Liberian Literature. Monrovia: The Society of Liberian Authors, 1974. 11-12. | ||
* | 1952 | Larsen, Jens | 10,000 Tom-Toms | Novel | Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1952. | |
1953 | Dempster, Roland T. | The Mystic Reformation of Gondolia: Being a Satirical Treatise on Moral Philosophy | Novel | Monrovia (?): Dragon Press (?), 1953. | ||
* | 1953 | Tolson, Melvin B. | Libretto for the Republic of Liberia | Poetry | New York: Twayne, 1953. | |
1955 (?) | Dempster, Roland T. | The Search for Truth | Drama | s.l.: s.n. | ||
* | 1957 | Larsen, Jens | Felembe | Novel | Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1957. | |
1958 (?) | Dempster, Roland T. | To Monrovia, Old and New | Poetry | Monrovia: s.n., 1958 (?). | ||
* | 1958 | Warner, Esther S. | The Silk-Cotton Tree | Novel | New York: Doubleday, 1958. | |
1959 | Dempster, Roland T. | Anniversary Ode to Dr. William V. S. Tubman, National Standard Bearer, True Whig Party, on the Occasion of His 63rd Birthday | Poetry | Monrovia: s.n., 1959 | ||
1959 | Henries, A. Doris Banks | The Father of Our Country | Drama | s.n.: s.l. (cf. Gale 1980, p. 71) | ||
* | 1959 | Packard, A. Appleton | "Bolahun" [a section containing several poems] | Poetry | Twilight: Poems. Santa Barbara: The Schauer Printing Studio, 1959. 1-12. | |
1959 | Parker, Lester R. | Till You Return | Drama | s.l.: s.n. | ||
* | 1960 | Creel, J. Luke [prepared with Bai Gai Kiahon] | Folk Tales of Liberia | Folklore & Oral | Minneapolis: Dennison, 1960 | |
1960 | Dempster, Roland T. | A Song Out of Midnight | Poetry | Monrovia: s.n., 1960. | ||
1960 | Dempster, Roland T. | "Africa's Plea" (from A Song Out of Midnight) | Poetry | In: Alan Lomax and Raoul Abdul, eds. 3000 Years of Black Poetry: An Anthology. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1970. 168-169. | download (PDF, 349 KB) | |
1961 | Massaquoi, Princess Fatima | The Leopard's Daughter | Folklore & Oral | Boston: Humphries, 1961 | ||
1961 | Simpson, C. S. | The Memoirs of C. L. Simpson: The Symbol of Liberia | Autobiography & Memoir | London: The Diplomatic Press, 1961. | ||
1962 | Fanbulleh, Fatima Massaquoi | One Hundred Years of Struggle | Drama | s.n.: s.l. (cf. Gale 1980, p. 72) | ||
1962 | Moore, Bai T. | Ebony Dust | Poetry | Monrovia: Ducor Publishing House, 1962 | ||
* | 1962 | Scholat, G. Warren | Dee, a Boy of Liberia | Children's Literature | New York: Knopf, 1962 | available online |
* | 1963 | Anonymous | "Ten Proverbs from Liberia" | Folklore & Oral | African Heritage: An Anthology of Black African Personality and Culture. 1963. Ed. Jacob Drachler. London: Collier, 1969. 44-50. | |
1963 (?) | Dempster, Roland T. | Shadows in Darkness | Drama | s.l.: s.n. | ||
1963 | Dempster, Roland T. | Tubman: Reflections from the Poet's Pen and Other Poems | Poetry | Monrovia: s.n., 1963. | ||
1963 | Henries, A. Doris Banks, ed. | Poems of Liberia: 1836-1961. | Poetry | London: Macmillan, 1963. | ||
1963 (?) | Parker, Lester R. | Monkey Works | Drama | s.n.: s.l. (cf. Gale 1980, p. 72) | ||
1963 (?) | Parker, Lester R. | Fear in the Morning | Drama | s.n.: s.l. (cf. Gale 1980, p. 72) | ||
* | 1963 (?) | Pinney, Peter | Legends of Liberia: A Collection of Folktales Told by the People of Liberia | Folklore & Oral | s.l.: s.n., 1963 (?) / Monrovia: Society of Liberian Authors, 1973 | |
1964 | Arkhurst, Joyce Cooper | The Adventures of Spider: West African Folk Tales | Folklore & Oral | Boston: Little-Brown, 1964 | ||
* | 1965 | Chandler, Edna Walker | Will You Carry Me | Children's Literature | Chicago: Whitman, 1965 | |
1965 | Parker, Lester R. | The Human Vaccum | Drama | s.n.: s.l. (cf. Gale 1980, p. 72; Nagbe 2005, p. 361) | ||
* | 1966 | Graham, Lorenz B. | I, Momolu | Children's Literature | New York: Crowell, 1966. | |
1966 | Henries, A. Doris Banks | Liberian Folklore: A Compilation with Ninety-Nine Folktales and Some Proverbs | Folklore & Oral | London: Macmillan, 1966. | ||
1966 | Henries, A. Doris Banks | "Pageant of Modern Africa" | Poetry | Présence Africaine 57 (1966): 335-336. | download (PDF, 344 KB) | |
* | 1967 | Haskett, Edythe Rance | Grains of Pepper: Folk Tales from Liberia | Folklore & Oral | New York: Day, 1967. | |
1967 (?) | Johnson, Jangaba & Bai T. Moore | Chips from the African Story Tree | Folklore & Oral | Accra: New Outlook Press | ||
1967 | Various | The Wind of Change | Drama | s.n.: s.l. (cf. Gale 1980, p. 72) | ||
* | 1968 | Hall, Bennie C. | No Escape from Love | Novel | New York : Prestige Books, 1968. | |
1968 | Moore, Bai T. | Murder in the Cassava Patch | Novel | Utrecht: Drukkerij Bosch | ||
1969 | Parker, Lester R. | That I May Lead Them Well (A Leader of Men): The Silver Jubilee Drama Commemorating President William V. S. Tubman's Twenty-Five Years of Service | Drama | s.l.: s.n. | ||
1969 | Parker, Lester R. | Then Shall the Dust Return | Drama | s.n.: s.l. (cf. Nagbe 2005, p. 361) | ||
1969 | Wreh, John Sunday | Poems | Poetry | s.l.: s.n. (cf. Nagbe 2005, p. 359) | ||
1970 | Dorliae, Peter G. | Animals Mourn for Da Leopard and Other West African Tales | Folklore & Oral | Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970 | available online | |
1970 | Khasu, Kona | Manja Asumana | Drama | s.l.: s.n. | ||
1970 | Parker, Lester R. | They Shall the Dust Return | Drama | s.n.: s.l. (cf. Gale 1980, p. 72) | ||
1970 | Yancy, W. Fulton | Poems | Poetry | s.l.: s.n. (cf. Nagbe 2005, p. 359) | ||
1970 | Zamba, Liberty | "The Plea of Korva" | Poetry |
In: New African Literature and the Arts. Ed. Joseph Okpaku. Vol. 1. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1970. 122–123. |
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1971 | Sankawulo, Wilton | "The Evil Forest" | Short Story | African Arts 4.4 (1971): 35, 63-66. | ||
1972 | Arkhurst, Joyce Cooper | More Adventures of Spider | Folklore & Oral | New York: Scholastic, 1972. | ||
1972 (?) | Khasu, Kona | Kanda Goto of Suehn | Drama | ? | ||
1972 (?) | Khasu, Kona | Kandakai | Drama | ? | ||
1972 (?) | Khasu, Kona | The Greedy Farmer | Drama | ? | ||
1972 (?) | Khasu, Kona | The Lost Scene from the Magic Flute | Drama | ? | ||
1972 (?) | Khasu, Kona | The Struggle Continues | Drama | ? | ||
1971 | Corker, R. Sylvanus | "God Is a Mandingo Man" (republished in Cordor 1977 / 1980 as "Father Joseph") | Short Story | In: Kaafa (December 1971) / / S. Henry Cordor, ed. New Voices from West Africa: The First Major Anthology of Contemporary Liberian Short Stories. Monrovia: Books for Africa Press, 1980. 21-26. | ||
1971 | Khasu, Kona | The Seeds of Time: A Collection of Poems | Poetry | s.l.: Monrovia / new ed. available online | download | |
1971 | Henries, A. Doris Banks | The Landing of the Pioneers | Drama | In: Anthology of Liberian Literature. Monrovia: The Society of Liberian Authors, 1974. 84-109. | ||
1971 | Moore, Bai T. | "The Woman with a Black Snake" | Short Story | In: Kaafa (December 1971) / In: Anthology of Liberian Literature. Monrovia: The Society of Liberian Authors, 1974. 71-80. / S. Henry Cordor, ed. New Voices from West Africa: The First Major Anthology of Contemporary Liberian Short Stories. Monrovia: Books for Africa Press, 1980. 27-36. | ||
1971 -1972 | Stone, Ruth M. | "Mƹni-Pêlee: A Musical-Dramatic Folktale of the Kpelle" | Folklore & Oral | Liberian Studies Journal 4.1: 31-46. | ||
1971 - 1977 (?) | Various | Kaafa: Bulletin of the Society of Liberian Authors | Essays & Speeches | Monrovia: The Society of Liberian Authors | ||
* | 1971 | Winther, Barbara | "African Trio: Three Folk Tales from Africa" [The third of the tales, "The Princess Who Was Hidden from the World," is based on a Liberian folktale.] | Folklore & Oral | In: Sylvia E. Kamerman. Dramatized Folk Tales of the World: A Collection of 50 One-Act Plays – Royalty-Free Adaptations of Stories from Many Lands. Boston: Plays Inc., 1971. 3-15. [The Liberian folktale: 10-15.] / available online | |
1972 (?) | Khasu, Kona | The Greedy Farmer | Drama | s.n.: s.l. | ||
1972 | Mitchell, Elizabeth M. | The Last Rites and Ceremonies | Novel | s.l.: s.n. (cf. Nagbe 2005, p. 360) | ||
* | 1973 | Gay, John | Red Dust on the Green Leaves | Novel | Thompson: InterCulture Associates, 1973 / Northridge; New World African Press, 2002. | |
1973 (?) | Khasu, Kona | Kandakai | Drama | s.n.: s.l. | ||
1974 | Cordor, Similih M., ed. | An Anthology of Short Stories by Writers from the West African Republic of Liberia | Short Story | Monrovia: Liberian Literary and Education Pulbications | ||
1974 -1980 | Fahnbulleh, H. Boima, ed. | Voices of Protest: Liberia on the Edge, 1974-1980 | Essays & Speeches | Boca Raton FL: Universal Publishers, 2005. | ||
1974 | Gbaba, Joseph | Kekula at the End of His Course of Study at Carroll High School | Drama | (not published) | ||
1974 | Henries, A. Doris Banks | The Landing of the Pioneers | Drama | s.n.: s.l. (cf. Nagbe 2005, p. 361) | ||
1974 | Khasu, Kona | Homage to Africa | Drama | s.l.: s.n. | ||
1974 (?) | Khasu, Kona | Kanda Goto of Suehn | Drama | s.n.: s.l. | ||
1974 (?) | Khasu, Kona | The Lost Scene from the Magic Flute | Drama | s.n.: s.l. | ||
1974 | McCarthy, Lizzie | "Monkey Bridge" | Short Story | In: Anthology of Liberian Literature. Monrovia: The Society of Liberian Authors, 1974. 53-69. | ||
1974 | Moore, Bai T. | Voices from the Grassroots | Poetry | Monrovia / Accra: New Outlook Press (?) | ||
1974 | Parker, Lester R. | Pioneers and Providence: A Play | Drama | Monrovia: s.n. | ||
1974 | T-Toe, J. Warkreh | African Poems | Poetry | s.l.: s.n. (cf. Nagbe 2005, p. 359) | ||
1974 | Sankawulo, Wilton | The Marriage of Wisdom and Other Tales | Short Story | London: Heinemann | ||
1974 | Wordsworth, Edna | Twenty-Two Miles to Mount Vorblee | Drama | In: Anthology of Liberian Literature. Monrovia: The Society of Liberian Authors, 1974. 110-131. | ||
1975 | Cordor, Similih M. | "In the Hospital" | Short Story | In: Charles R. Larson, ed. More Modern African Stories: A Collection of Contemporary African Writing. Glasgow: Fontana Collins, 1975. 80-92. / Revised version in: Charles R. Larson, ed. Under African Skies: Modern African Short Stories. New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 177-190. | ||
1975 | Cordor, Similih M. | The African Life: A Collection of Short Stories | Short Story | Monrovia: Liberian Literary and Education Publications | ||
* | 1975 | Graham, Lorenz B. | Song of the Boat | Children's Literature | New York:: Thomas Y. Crowell | |
1975 | Parker, Lester R. | Fear in the Morning | Drama | s.n.: s.l. (cf. Nagbe 2005, p. 361) | ||
1975 | Sankawulo, Wilton | "The Boy Who Was Wiser Than His Father" | Short Story | In: Charles R. Larson, ed. Opaque Shadows and Other Stories from Contemporary Africa. London: Fontana, 1975. / U.S. ed. Washington DC: Inscape, 1976. 28–41. | ||
1976 | Brown, Robert H. | After Long Silence, and Other Liberian Short Stories | Short Story | Monrovia: s.n. / New York: Vantage, 1979 (?) | ||
1976 | Brown, Robert H. | "The Burial" (republished in Cordor 1977 / 1980 as "The Rivals") | Short Story | In: Robert H. Brown. After Long Silence. Monrovia: s.n., 1976. / S. Henry Cordor, ed. New Voices from West Africa: The First Major Anthology of Contemporary Liberian Short Stories. Monrovia: Books for Africa Press, 1980. 5-10. | ||
1976 (?) | Khasu, Kona | The Struggle Continues | Drama | s.n.: s.l. | ||
1976 | Moore, Bai T. | The Money Doubler | Novel | Lagos: Unicorn Books | ||
1976 | Moore, R. Jaryenneh | "The Imprisoned Native" | Short Story | In: Kaafa (December 1976) / Henry S. Cordor, ed. New Voices from West Africa: The First Major Anthology of Contemporary Liberian Short Stories. Monrovia: Books for Africa Press, 1980. 45-50. | ||
1977 | Cordor, S. Henry | So Say One, So Say All, and Other West African Stories from the Republic of Liberia | Short Story | Monrovia: Liberian Literary and Education Publications | ||
1977 | Gbaba, Joseph | Chains of Apartheid | Drama | s.n.: s.l. | ||
1977 | Reeves, E. Toimu A. | Monkey Storm | Novel | New York: Vantage Press | ||
1977 (?) | Sankawulo, Wilton | "The Role of the Black and African Writer in the Changing African Society" | Essays & Speeches | s.l.: s.n. / available online | ||
1978 | Cordor, S. Henry | "Making the Mountain Talk" | Short Story | In: S. Henry Cordor. A Night of Your Own. Monrovia: s.n., 1978 / S. Henry Cordor, ed. New Voices from West Africa: The First Major Anthology of Contemporary Liberian Short Stories. Monrovia: Books for Africa Press, 1980. 37-44. | ||
1978 -2001 | Fahnbulleh, H. Boima | Across the Landscape: Selected Political Writings and Speeches in Liberia, 1978-2001 | Essays & Speeches | Boca Raton FL: Universal Publishers, 2005. | ||
1978 | Wylie, Joe | "There Is Still More Time" | Poetry | Justice, Justice: A Cry of My People: Speeches, Papers, and Important Documents by Some of the Makers of the Liberian Revolution (Yet to Come) in the Movement for Justice in Africa (MOJA/Liberia). Ed. Nya Kwiawon Taryor, Sr. Chicago: Struggler's Community Press, 1985. 175–176. | ||
1979 | Cordor, S. Henry, ed. | Africa, from People to People: Six Contemporary African Short Stories from Liberia | Short Story | Washington D.C.: International Africana Press, 1979. | ||
1979 | Sankawulo, Wilton | The Rain and the Night | Novel | London: Macmillan, 1979 / Accra: Sedco, 2001 | ||
1979 | Sankawulo, Wilton | Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die, and Other Tales from Liberia | Short Story | London: Macmillan | ||
1980 | Gausei-Wuor, Yei R. | Poems for Your Pleasure | Poetry | s.l.: s.n. (cf. Nagbe 2005, p. 359) | ||
1980 (?) | Gbaba, Joseph | Zon Ninneh Taryee | Drama | s.l.: s.n. | ||
1980 | Mitchell, Elizabeth M. | "Swehde Is Triumphant" | Short Story | In: S. Henry Cordor, ed. New Voices from West Africa: The First Major Anthology of Contemporary Liberian Short Stories. Monrovia: Books for Africa Press, 1980. 11-20. | ||
1980 | T-Toe, J. Warkreh | [4 short stories] | Short Story | In: J. Warkreh T-Toe. The Voice of My Silence: Contemporary Short Stories and Poems from Liberia. Monrovia: s.n. 1-5, 11-22, 39-44, 48-49. / "The Blind Optimist" also in: Henry S. Cordor, ed. New Voices from West Africa: The First Major Anthology of Contemporary Liberian Short Stories. Monrovia: Books for Africa Press, 1980. 61-70. | ||
1980 | T-Toe, J. Warkreh | [21 poems] | Poetry | In: J. Warkreh T-Toe. The Voice of My Silence: Contemporary Short Stories and Poems from Liberia. Monrovia: s.n. 6-10, 23-38, 45-47. | ||
1980 | Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh (as Patricia D. M. Jabbeh) | "The Nocturnal Being" | Short Story | In: Henry S. Cordor, ed. New Voices from West Africa: The First Major Anthology of Contemporary Liberian Short Stories. Monrovia: Books for Africa Press, 1980. 51-60. | ||
* | 1982 | Bess, Clayton | Story for a Black Night | Children's Literature | Oakland: Parnassus, 1982. | |
1983 | Allen, C. William | An Obituary for Hawa Barchue | Novel | s.l.: Central Printing, 1983 / Porter Ranch CA: New World African Press, 2007. | ||
1983 | Hne, J. Dio | "The Spoilt Child" | Poetry | The Daily Observer (18 February 1983) / excerpts quoted in: Mary H. Moran, Liberia: The Violence of Democracy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 96. | ||
1983 | Nagbe, K-Moses | Monrovia Stampedes & Other Chronicle Poems | Poetry | s.l.: s.n. (cf. Nagbe 2005, p. 359) | ||
* | 1983 | Aardema, Verna (writer) and Ellen Weiss (illustrator) | The Vingananee and the Tree Toad: A Liberian Tale | Children's Literature | New York: Varne, 1983. / London: Puffin, 1988. | |
1984 | Cordor, S. Henry | "After Death, the Judgment." | Short Story | The Classic: A Magazine of Creative Writing and Art, vol. 3, no. 1, 1984, pp. 19–21, 38–41. | ||
1984 | Gbaba, Joseph | The Resurrection | Drama | s.n.: s.l. | ||
* | 1984 | Mertins, Silke | "Short Story: Not for You" | Short Story | Footprints Today (Monrovia), 29 August 1984, n.p. [reference appears on p. 15, footnote 16 in: Gershoni, Yekutiel. "Liberia's Civil Society and Political Activists in the 1984-85 Election Campaign: Undermined by External Coercion and Inner Division." Liberian Studies Journal 32.2 (2007): 1-16.] | |
1985 (?) | Gayedyu, Daniel C., Sr. | Poems from Heart to Heart | Poetry | Monrovia: s.n. | ||
1985 | Nagbe, K-Moses |
We Are One: A Six-Story Collection |
Short Story | s.l.: s.n. / see Google Books | ||
1987 | Borlay, Manjoe | Who See It | Drama | (radio) / available online | ||
1987 | Sankawulo, Wilton | Son of the Soil | Novel | Monrovia: s.n. | ||
* | 1988 | Dee, Ruby (author) and Susan Meddaugh | Two Ways to Count to Ten: A Liberian Folktale | Folklore & Oral | New York: Henry Holt, 1988. | |
1989 | Liberian Rural Communications Network | Flomo's Accident | Drama | (radio) - plot sketch available in: Brooke, Pamela. Communicating Through Story Characters: Radio Social Drama. Lanham: University Press of America, 1995. 86–88. | ||
1989 | Nagbe, K-Moses | The Real Drum Daddy Is Back! | Short Story | Monrovia: Pen-Tina | ||
1990 (?) | Ballah, Peter | Our People, One People | Drama | (not published) | ||
1991 | Neal, Womi Bright | "The Weeping Tree" | Short Story | In: Margaret Busby, ed. Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present. New York: Pantheon, 1992. 890-893. | ||
* | 1991 | Sheppard, Nancy | Jason and the Mischievous Mongoose | Children's Literature | Schaumburg: Regular Baptist Press, 1991. | |
1992 | Allen, C. William | The African Interior Mission | Novel | Stone Mountain GA: Struggler's Community Press, 1992 / Cherry Hill NJ: African Homestead Legacy Publishers, 2006 | ||
* | 1992 | Fleming, Juanita | If Freedom Fail: An African Romance Set in Liberia in the Early 1950s | Novel | Claremont: Highpoint, 1992. | |
1992 (?) | Gbaba, Joseph | The Minstrel's Tales | Drama | (not published) | ||
1992 | Nagbe, K-Moses | The Road to Romeo | Novel | Monrovia: Pen-Tina, 1992 / Accra: Sedco, 2001 | ||
1992 | Reeves, Ruth Lymas | The Stranger Son | Novel | London: Macmillan | ||
* | 1993 | Ellis, Veronica Freeman (author) and Sylvia Walker (illustrator) | Land of the Four Winds | Children's Literature | Orange: Just Us Books, 1993. | |
* | 1993 | Phillips, Caryl | Crossing the River | Novel | London: Bloomsbury, 1993. / London: Vintage, 2006. | |
1993 | Warner, J. Ninsel | Africa and Children | Novel | New York: Carlton Press, 1993. (A Geneva Book) | ||
* | 1994 | Krishnaswami, Uma (illustrated by Birgitta Säflund) | "The Story of the Moon" | Folklore & Oral | Stories of the Flood. Niwot: Roberts Rinehart, 1994. 29-32. | |
* | 1995 | Carter, Jimmy | "Why We Get Cheap Tires from Liberia" | Poetry | Always a Reckoning and Other Poems. New York: Times Books, 1995. 83. | |
* | 1995 | Dendel, Esther Warner | You Cannot Unsneeze a Sneeze, and Other Tales from Liberia | Folklore & Oral | Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1995. | |
* | 1995 | Keenan, Deborah | "Living" | Poetry | Happiness: Poems. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1995. 35-36. / Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems. Minneapolis: Milkwood Editions, 2007. 171-172. | |
* | 1996 | Jackson, Dave & Neta (illustrated by Julian Jackson) | Quest for the Lost Prince | Children's Literature | Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1996. | |
* | 1996 | Kaplan, Robert D. | "An Unsentimental Journey" | Letters & Travel Writing | In: The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Random House, 1996. / Paperback ed. New York: Vintage Departures, 1997. 3-30. | |
* | 1996 | Wilson, Robert | The Big Killing | Novel | London: Harper Collins, 1996. | |
* | 1997 | Stewart, Julia | African Proverbs and Wisdom: A Collection for Every Day of the Year from More Than Forty African Nations [contains several folktales and one song] | Folklore & Oral | Secaucus: Citadel Press, 1997. | |
1998 | Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh | Before the Palm Tree Could Bloom: Poems of Africa | Poetry | Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 1998. (The New Issues Press Poetry Series) | ||
* | 1998 | Zemser, Amy Bronwen | Beyond the Mango Tree | Children's Literature | New York: Greenwillow, 1998. | |
1999 (?) | Crusoe, Arthur | A Sister's Love | Children's Literature | Monrovia: John Collins Teachers College, 1999. | ||
1999 | Paye, Won-Ldy, Margaret H. Lippert (Writers) & Ashley Bryan (Illustrator) | Why Leopard Has Spots: Dan Stories from Liberia | Folklore & Oral Culture | Golden: Fulcrum Kids, 1999. | ||
1999 (2016) | Sherif, Vamba | Land of My Fathers | Novel | London: HopeRoad, 2016. [First published in Dutch in 1999, but originally written in English.] | ||
2000 (?) | Brown, Mary Laurene | Dugbe's Dog | Children's Literature | Monrovia: John Collins Teachers College | ||
2000 | Elliott, Doris Mayson | "Mother Liberia" | Poetry | Liberian Studies Journal 26.2: 2-3. | ||
2000 | Reffell, Prince Massala | The Black Mayflower | Novel | New York: Vantage Press, 2000. | ||
2000 (?) | Nagbe, K-Moses | Never Again, Pa Gona | Children's Literature | Monrovia: Herald | ||
* | 2001 | Chase, Linda | "Apprentice" | Poetry | The Wedding Spy. Manchester: Carcanet, 2001. 71. | |
2001 | Cordor, Similih M. | "My Past, My Present, My Future" | Poetry | In: Charles R. Larson. The Ordeal of the African Writer. London: Zed Books, 2001. 73. | download (PDF, 87 KB) | |
* | 2001 | Gboyor, Bobby David | Clouds of a Ghoulish War | Novel | Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2011. | |
2001 | Kandakai, Dwaboyea E. S. | The Village Son | Novel | Accra: Sedco, 2001. | ||
2002 (?) | Browne, Mary Laurene | Looking Up and Afar | Children's Literature | Monrovia: Herald | ||
* | 2002 | Doerr, Anthony | "The Caretaker" | Short Story | In: The Shell Collector. London: Fourth Estate, 2002. 130-173. | |
* | 2002 | Gay, John | The Brightening Shadow | Novel | Northridge: New World African Press, 2002. / New ed. 2003 | |
2002 | Malapka, Sakui | The Village Boy | Novel | Northridge CA: New World African Press | ||
2002 | Nagbe, K-Moses | Cassava-Piassava-Massa | Children's Literature | Monrovia: Herald | ||
2002 | Nagbe, K-Moses | Money Is Cheap | Children's Literature | Monrovia: Herald | ||
2002 | Paye, Won-Ldy, Margaret H. Lippert (Writers) & Julie Paschkis (Illustrator) | Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia | Children's Literature | New York: Henry Holt, 2002. / Paperback ed. New York: Henry Holt, 2010. | ||
2003 | Boakai, Joe N., Sr. | "My Vision for Liberia" and "Rise Up, O African Leaders" | Poetry | From Foya to the Capitol: His Excellency Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr., Vice President of the Republic of Liberia. By Sakui Malakpa. Cherry Hill: Africana Homestead Publishers, 2016. 124-125 / 127. | ||
2003 | Innis, John G. | By the Goodness of God: An Autobiography | Autobiography & Memoir | Nashville: Abingdon, 2003. | ||
* | 2003 | Wallace, Ronald | "Photo from Liberia" | Poetry | Long for This World: New and Selected Poems. Pitt Poetry Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. 105-105. | |
2003 | Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh | Becoming Ebony | Poetry | Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry) | ||
2003 (?) - 2012 | Talking Drum Studios / Search for Common Ground | Today Is Not Tomorrow | Drama | (radio - soap series) | ||
* | 2004 | Ballantyne, Ken E. | "In Pursuit of an Art" | Poetry | Rhythms of the Ghetto: Poems. View Fort, St. Lucia: Jako Books, 2004. 61-63. | |
* | 2004 | Banks, Russell | The Darling | Novel | Knopf Canada, 2004 / New York: HarperPerennial, 2015 | |
* | 2004 | Gay, John | Long Day's Anger | Novel | Northridge: New World African Press, 2004. | |
2004 | Lewis, Ophelia S. | My Dear Liberia: Recollections | Autobiography & Memoir | s.l.: Village Tales Publishing | ||
* | 2004 | Neff, Heather | Accident of Birth | Novel | New York: Harlem Moon / Broadway Books, 2004. | |
2004 | Reeves, William K. | The Native Boy: An Autobiography of a Man from Nyaake | Autobiography & Memoir | Ed. by Nicholas Bayard. Northridge: The New World African Press, 2004. | ||
2004 -2009 | Various | Sea Breeze: Journal of Contemporary Liberian Writings |
Essays & Speeches | online / partially archived | ||
2004 | [Toe, William, Wachan Bohlen and Neyi Memunatu] | "Liberia." | Autobiography & Memoir | Making It Home: Real-Life Stories from Children Forced to Flee. With an introduction by Beverly Naidoo. London: Puffin, 2004. 65-75. | ||
2005 | Fahnbulleh, Boima | Behind God's Back | Novel | Cambridgeshire: Upfrontpublishing, 2005. | ||
2005 | Kamara, Alhaji Sheku | "Mudera" | Autobiography & Memoir | Soft Touch: Refugees Writing in Wales 3. Eds. Eric Ngalle Charles, Tom Cheesman and Sylvie Hoffmann. Swansea: Hafan Books, 2005. 19. | ||
2005 | Kpakio, Maxson Sahr | "My Presence Is Here But" | Poetry | Soft Touch: Refugees Writing in Wales 3. Eds. Eric Ngalle Charles, Tom Cheesman and Sylvie Hoffmann. Swansea: Hafan Books, 2005. 92–95. | ||
* | 2005 | Powers, William | Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge | Autobiography & Memoir | New York: Bloomsbury, 2005. | |
2005 | Sankawulo, Wilton | Sundown at Dawn: A Liberian Odyssey | Novel | Huston: Dusty Spark, 2005. | ||
2006 (2015) | Sherif, Vamba | Bound to Secrecy | Novel | London: HopeRoad, 2015. | ||
* | 2007 | Brooks, J. Nicole | Black Diamond: The Years the Locusts Have Eaten | Drama |
The Methuen Drama Book of Post-Black Plays: Bulrusher; Good Goods; The Shipment; Satellites; And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi; Antebellum; In the Continuum; Black Diamond. Eds. Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Douglas A. Jones, Jr. London: Methuen Drama, 2012. 545-635. |
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* | 2007 | Cothron, Kia | Tap the Leopard | Drama | A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick and Other Plays (and an Essay). South Gate: No Passport Press, 2011. 236-394. | |
* | 2007 | Helon, Habila | Measuring Time | Novel | New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. | |
* | 2007 | Hicks, Kyra E. (writer) and Lee Edward Födi (illustrator) |
Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria |
Children's Literature | Arlington: Black Threads Press, 2007. | |
2007 | Lewis, Ophelia S. | Journeys: A Collection of Poems | Poetry | s.l.: Village Tales Publishing, 2007. | ||
2007 | Nagbe, K-Moses | One Saturday in August | Novel | Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2007. | ||
* | 2007 | Smith, Zadie | "One Week in Liberia" | Essays & Speeches | Observer (29 April 2007) / Republished in: Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays. 2009. Paperback ed. London: Penguin, 2010. 110-131. | |
2007 | Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh | The River Is Rising | Poetry | Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press, 2007 | ||
2008 | Brown, Mary Laurene | "This Is Africa's Women" | Poetry | Poems at the Edge of Differences: Mothering in New English Poetry by Women. By Renate Papke. Göttigen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2008. 159. | ||
2008 | Cooper, Helene | The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood | Autobiography & Memoir | New York: Schuster & Schuster, 2008 / Paperback ed.: New York: Schuster & Schuster, 2009. | ||
* | 2008 | Kraus, George | "Journalist in Monrovia Remembers Berlin" | Poetry | An Uncommon Accord: Poems. By George Kraus et al. Chappaqua, NY: Toadlily Press, 2006. 6. | |
2008 | Nagbe, K-Moses | Tugging Whispers | Novel | Maryland: America Star Books, 2008 | ||
* | 2008 | Raptosh, Diane | "Dispatch from a Liberian Soldier" | Poetry | Toronto: Guernica, 2008. 38. | |
2008 | Shaw, Elma | Redemption Road: The Quest for Peace and Justice in Liberia | Novel | Washington DC / Monrovia: Cotton Tree Press, 2008. | ||
2009 | Sherif, Vamba | "The Kingdom of Sebah" & "Faces" | Short Story | Journeys Home: An Anthology of Contemporary African Diasporic Experience (Poems and Personal Narratives). Eds. Salome C. Nnoromele and Lisa Day-Lindsay. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2009. 144-146 & 147-156. | ||
2009 | Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson | This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President | Autobiography & Memoir | New York: Harper, 2009. / Paperback ed. New York: HarperPerennial, 2010. | ||
2010 | Moore, Wayétu (Writer) & Augustus Moore, Jr. (Illustrator) | 1 Peking | Children's Literature | Brooklyn: One More Book | ||
2010 | Sankawulo, Wilton | Birds Are Singing | Novel | Washington DC / Monrovia: Cotton Tree Press | ||
* | 2010 | Scaletta, Kurtis | Mamba Point | Children's Literature | New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2010. | |
2010 | Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh | Where the Road Turns | Poetry | Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press, 2010. | ||
* | 2011 | Baily, Ginny | Africa Junction | Novel | London: Harvill Secker, 2011. | |
2011 | Gbowee, Leymah, with Carol Lynn Mithers | Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War | Autobiography & Memoir | New York: Beast, 2011. / London: Perseus, 2011. | ||
2011 | Kammara-Umunna, Agnes Fallah & Emily Holland | And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation | Autobiography & Memoir | New York: Hachette, 2011. | ||
* | 2011 | Kaufman, Debbie | The Doctor's Mission | Novel | New York: Love Inspired Books, 2011. | |
2011 | Kamara-Umunna, Agnes Fallah and Emily Holland | And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation | Autobiography & Memoir | New York: Hyperion, 2011. | ||
2011 | Lewis, Ophelia S. | Heart Men | Novel | s.l.: Village Tales Publishing | ||
2011 | Lewis, Ophelia S. | The Dowry of Virgins and Other Stories | Short Story | s.l.: Village Tales Publishing | ||
2011 | Moore, Wayétu (Writer) & Augustus Moore, Jr. (Illustrator) | A Gift for Yole | Children's Literature | Brooklyn: One More Book | ||
2011 | Moore, Wayétu (Writer) & Kula Moore (Illustrator) | I Love Liberia | Children's Literature | Brooklyn: One More Book | ||
2011 | Moore, Wayétu (Writer) & Kula Moore (Illustrator) | J Is for Jollof Rice | Children's Literature | Brooklyn: One More Book | ||
2011 | Moore, Wayétu (Writer) & Augustus Moore, Jr. (Illustrator) | Kukujumuku | Children's Literature | Brooklyn: One More Book | ||
2011 | Moore, Wayétu (Writer), Wiande Moore-Everett (Writer) & Kula Moore (Illustrator) | My Little Musu | Children's Literature | Brooklyn: One More Book | ||
2011 | Senwah-Freeman, Jassie (Story), Wayétu Moore (Writer), Wiande Moore-Everett (Writer) & Kula Moore (Illustrator) | Jamonghoie | Children's Literature | Brooklyn: One More Book | ||
* | 2012 | Dickinson, Matt | Deep Oblivion (Mortal Chaos #2) | Novel | Oxford: Oxford University Press | |
2012 | Horton, Stephanie (Writer) & Chase Walker (Illustrator) | What Happened to Red Rooster When a Visitor Came | Children's Literature | Brooklyn: One More Book | ||
2012 | Lewis, Ophelia S. | Montserrado Stories | Short Story | s.l.: Village Tales Publishing | ||
2013 | Building Markets | Building Markets Liberia | Drama | (radio) | available online - Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | |
* | 2013 | Hill, Sean | "From the Best Authorities" [and other poems in the same collection] | Poetry | Dangerous Goods: Poems. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013. 25-44. | |
* | 2013 | Maksik, Alexander | A Marker to Measure Drift | Novel | New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. / Paperback ed. New York: Vintage, 2014. | |
2013 | Pailey, Robtel Neajai (Writer) & Chase Walker (Illustrator) | Gbagba | Children's Literature | Brooklyn: One More Book, 2013. (Reading avilable on Youtube; see also radio drama adaptation in 2016) | ||
2013 | Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh (Writer) & Chase Walker (Illustrator) | In Monrovia, the River Visits the Sea | Children's Literature | Brooklyn: One More Book. | ||
2014 | Irene, Renee | How Are You Protecting Yourself? | Drama | (radio) | available online - Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 | |
2014 | Irene, Renee | Junior Boy | Drama | (radio) | available online - Epidsode 1, 2, 3, 4 | |
2014 | Lewis, Ophelia S. | Dead Gods: HM2 | Novel | s.l.: Village Tales Publishing | ||
* | 2015 | Atuona, Diana Nneka | Liberian Girl | Drama | London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama | |
2015 | BBC Media Action | Kick Ebola from Liberia | Drama | (radio) | available online | |
2015 | BBC Media Action | Mr. Plan-Plan and the Pepo-oh | Drama | (radio) | available online | |
* | 2015 | Channer, Colin | "Mimic" | Poetry | Providential: Poems. Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2015. 27-30. | |
2015 - present | Forte, D. Othniel, ed. | Kwee: Liberian Literary Magazine | Essays & Speeches | available online | ||
2015 | Golakai, Hawa Jande | The Score | Novel | s.l.: Kwela, 2015. / Abuja: Cassava Republic Press, 2019. | ||
* | 2015 | Gurira, Danai | Eclipsed | Drama | London: Oberon Books | |
2016 | Golakai, Hawa Jande | "Fugee" | Essays & Speeches | In: Emma Wakatama Wallfrey, ed. Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction. Abuja: Cassava Republic Press, 2016. / Toronto: Dundurn, 2016. 19-37. | ||
2016 | Golakai, Hawa Jande | The Lazarus Effect: A Vee Johnson Mystery | Novel | Abuja: Cassava Republic Press, 2016. | ||
2016 | Konneh, Nvasekie N. | The Love of Liberty Brought Us Together: Collected Poems | Poetry | Hamilton NJ: Clarke | ||
2016 | Lamin, Brima K. & Chantale Wesley-Lamin | The Walk: Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor | Autobiography & Memoir | s.l.: Wesley Lamin Books, 2016. | ||
2016 | Malakpa, Sakui W. G. | "Toughty Learns" (Based on a Short Story by Flomo Wolea); "Does Not Concern Me"; "No Respect" | Short Story | Liberian Studies Journal 41.1/2 (2016): 19-23; 24-35; 36-46. | ||
* | 2016 | Ogene, Timothy |
"Transition" [Other poems do not reference Liberia explicitly, but are likely inspired by Liberian scenes, e.g. "Kru Child" and "Above a Postwar Town"] |
Poetry | Descent & Other Poems. Cumberland: Deerbrook Editions, 2016. 57. | |
2016 | Pailey, Robtel Neajai | Gbagba | Drama | (radio) - also staged in 2017 | available online | |
2016 | Yearnings of a Traveler | Poetry | Monrovia: Forte, 2016. | |||
2016 | Sherif, Vamba | "Homecoming" | Short Story | In: Ovo Adagha and Chris Brazier, eds. One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories. Oxford: New Internationalist, 2016. 77-88. / In: Elma Shaw, ed. Monrovia Rain and Other Stories Lost and Found. Washington DC / Monrovia: Cotton Tree Press, 2018. 65-86. | ||
* | 2016 | Washington, Mimi | We Dream of Africa | Novel | Temecula: Risen Literary Press, 2016. | |
2016 | Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh | When the Wanderers Come Home | Poetry | Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (African Poetry Book Series) | ||
* | 2017 | Huband, Mark (Writer) & Patrick Robert (Photographs) | The Siege of Monrovia: A Poem | Poetry | s.l.: Live Canon | |
2017 | Scary Dreams: An Anthology of the Liberian Civil War | Poetry | Monrovia: Forte Publishing | |||
2017 | Richards, Roosevelt | Still I Stand: Poems | Poetry | s.l.: Village Tales Publishing | ||
* | 2017 | Stubbles, Bryan | Death Sings in the Shadows | Drama | New York: Broadway Play Publishing | |
2018 | Huongnikpo, Franck Olivier | Subliminal Attraction | Novel | s.l.: Village Tales Publishing | ||
2018 | Juah, Patrice | Under Ducor Skies: Poems | Poetry | s.l.: Village Tales Publishing | ||
2018 | Moore, Wayétu | She Would Be King | Novel | Minneapolis: Graywolf Press | ||
2018 | Roberts, M. Woryonwon | "Between Crimes" | Short Story | In: Elma Shaw, ed. Monrovia Rain and Other Stories Lost and Found. Washington DC / Monrovia: Cotton Tree Press. 21-33. | ||
2018 | Russel, Gii-Hne S. | "Another Dead Girl" | Short Story | In: Elma Shaw, ed. Monrovia Rain and Other Stories Lost and Found. Washington DC / Monrovia: Cotton Tree Press. 5-20. | ||
2018 | Russell, Gii-Hne S. | "The Last Flight" | Short Story | In: Elma Shaw, ed. Monrovia Rain and Other Stories Lost and Found. Washington DC / Monrovia: Cotton Tree Press. 55-64. | ||
2018 | Voahn, Augustus Y. | "Monrovia Rain" | Short Story | In: Elma Shaw, ed. Monrovia Rain and Other Stories Lost and Found. Washington DC / Monrovia: Cotton Tree Press. 35-53. | ||
* | 2019 | Fine, Michael | Abundance | Novel | Oakland: PM Press | |
2019 | Gibney, Shannon | Dream Country | Novel | New York: Dutton Books for Young Readers | ||
2019 | Kpahn, Nemen M. | A Naked Lie: And Other Stories Set in Postwar Liberia | Short Story | s.l.: Village Tales Publishing | ||
2019 | Pailey, Robtel Neajai (Writer) & Chase Walker (Illustrator) | Jaadeh! | Children's Literature | Brooklyn: One More Book | ||
2019 | Wilson, Jeremiah | Marriage of Convenience: A Liberian Folklore | Folklore & Oral | s.l.: Village Tales Publishing | ||
2020 | Moore, Wayétu | The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir | Autobiography & Memoir | Minneapolis: Graywolf Press | ||
2020 | Nagbe, K-Moses | Born of the Village Son | Novel | Maryland / Monrovia: Pentina | ||
2020 | Reeves, Korto | Inappropriate Medley: A Book of Poetry on Checkpoints, Patriarchy and Pleasure | Poetry | South Africa: Ssali Publishing House | ||
2020 | Seton, Shedrick B. | Forget Me Not My Love | Novel | s.l.: Village Tales Publishing | ||
2020 | Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh | Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems | Poetry | Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press, 2020. | ||
2020 | West Africa Biodiversity | Forest Blessings | Drama | (radio) | available online | |
* | 2021 | Angleton, Sarah | White Man's Graveyard | Novel | St. Louis: Brigth Button Press, 2021. | |
2021 | Ninneh, Albert T. | Our Girls Are Not Your Chickoos | Drama | (unpublished?) | ||
2021 | Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh | "When I Shut the Door" | Short Story | Vox Populi. 2021. https://wp.me/p4xqzG-evN | ||
* | 2021 | Yasmin, Seema | If God Is a Virus | Poetry | Chicago: Haymarket, 2021. |