Principal Works
Man Must Live and Other Stories (short stories) 1947
Down Second Avenue (autobiography) 1959; reprinted, 1985
The Living and the Dead and Other Stories (short stories) 1961
The African Image (essays) 1962; revised edition, 1974
Modern African Stories [editor; with Ellis Ayitey Komey] (short stories) 1964
The Role of Education and Culture in Developing African Countries (essays) 1965
African Writing Today [editor and contributor] (anthology) 1967
In Corner B and Other Stories (short stories) 1967
The Wanderers (novel) 1971
Voices in the Whirlwind and Other Essays (essays) 1972
Chirundu [as Es'kia Mphahlele] (novel) 1981
Afrika My Music: An Autobiography, 1957-83 [as Es'kia Mphahlele] (autobiography) 1984
Bury Me at the Marketplace: Selected Letters of Es'kia Mphahlele, 1943–1980 [edited by N. Chabani Manganyi] (letters) 1986
Father Come Home (juvenilia) 1984
Let's Talk Writing: Poetry (essays) 1985
Let's Talk Writing: Prose (essays) 1985
Poetry and Humanism (nonfiction) 1986
Renewal Time (short stories and essays) 1988
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