“I am an irrepressible teacher, and will teach anywhere I am invited to, as long as I am not asked to play the role of a token nigger.”
Es’kia Mphahlele - 1988

Full length books and collections of Short Stories 

Books Edited

1. Modern African Stories, London: Faber & Faber, 1964
2. African Writing Today, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967, 1969
3. Thought, Ideology & African Literature, Denver: University of Denver, 1970 Short Stories Published In Journals & not appearing in Anthologies
4. "A Winter Story" in Fighting Talk, Spring 1956, Johannesburg
5. "Across Downstream" in Drum magazine, April, 1956, Johannesburg
6. "Lesane" - a series of complete stories on the same character, in Drum magazine, Johannesburg: December 1956, January, March, April, 1957

1. "The Living and the Dead" (SS) in Following the Sun, Berlin: Seven Seas Books, 1960
2. "The Suitcase" in New World Writing, New York: The New American Library, 7th Mentor Selection, 1955 under pen-name Bruno Esekie, pp 56-61
3. ...in Come Back Africa, ed. Herbert L Shore & Megchelina Shore-Bos, New York: International Publishers, 1968, pp 177-186
4. ...in Africa in Thunder and Wonder, ed Barbara Nolen, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972, pp 175-181
5. ...in The Scope of Recognition, ed Jill Bohlander, New York: Holt, Reinart & Winston, 1972
6. "He and the Cat" (SS) in South African Writing Today, ed Nadine Gordimer & Lionel Abrahams, Harmondsworth/Baltimore: Penguin, 1967, pp 73-77
7. "The Master of Doornvlei" (SS), "A Point of Identity" (SS), "A Ballad of Oyo" (SS) ed Edris Makward & Leslie Lacy, New York: Random House, 1972, pp 43-437
8. "Remarks on Negritude" (E) in African Writing Today, ed Ezekiel Mphahlele, Harmonsworth/Baltimore: Penguin, 1967) pp 247-253
9. "On the Long Road: From an African Autobiography" (E) in African Writing Today, ed Ezekiel Mphahlele, Harmondsworth/Baltimore: Penguin, 1967, pp 253-263
10. "Grieg on a Stolen Piano" (SS) in Pan African Stories, ed Neville Denny, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1965, pp 142-153
11. "A Ballad of Oyo" (SS) in Africa in Prose, ed O R Dathorne & Willfried Feuser, Harmondsworth/Baltimore, Penguin, 1969, pp 289-298
12. "Mrs Plum" (SS) in Cannon Shot and Glass Beads, ed George Lamming, London: Picador Pan Books, 1974 pp 221-251
13. "Mrs Plum" in Modern African Stories, ed Charles R Larson, London: Collins Fontana Books, 1971, pp 155-192
14. "Crossing Over" in To Kill a Man's Pride & Other Stories, ed Norman Hodge, Johannesburg Ravan Press, 1997
15. ... in The Short Story: An Introductory Anthology, 2nd Ed., ed Robert A Rees & Barry Menikoff, Boston: Little, Brown & Co
16. "African City People" (E) in East Africa Journal, Nairobi: East African Publishing House, June 1964
17. ...(E) in Africa: Tradition and Change, ed Evelyn Jones Rich and Immanuel Wallerstein, New York: Random House, 1972, pp 63-65
18. "Death" (P) Poems in Context, ed Lee A Jacobus & William T Moynihan, New York: Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1974, pp 431-434

Introduction to Modern African Writings (see Books Edited)
Introduction to African Writing Today (see Books Edited)
1. Introduction to Night of my Blood, a book of poems by Kofi Awoonor,New York: Doubleday, 1971
2. Introduction to No Sweetness Here, short stories by Ama Ata Aidoo, New York: Doubleday, 1971
3. Introduction to Emergency, novel by Richard Rive, New York: Collier, 1969
4. Introduction to Down Second Avenue (see Full Length Books . . .) - the American edition)
5. "Remarks on Negritude" in African Writing Today (see B above)
6. "The Long Road" in African Writing Today (see B above)
7. "Accra Conference Diary" in An African Treasury, ed Langston Hughes, New York: Crown Publishers, 1960
8. "The African Intellectual in Africa" in Transition, ed Prudence Smith, London: Maz Reinhardt, 1958
9. "African Culture Trends" in African Independence, ed Peter Judd, New York: Dell Publishing, 1963
10. "The Language of African Literature" in Africa: A Handbook to the Continent, ed Colin Legum, New York: Praeger, 1966.
11. "Langston Hughes"-an essay on his poetry, in Introduction to African Literature, ed Ulli Beier, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1967
12. "The Language of African Literature"-an extension of 12 above, in Harvard Educational Review, Vol, 34, No. 2, Spring 1964, Cambridge, MA, of which 12 above is a revised version.
13. "The Cult of Negritude" in Encounter, March 1961, London
14. "Cultural Identity: Israel and Africa" in Jewish Quarterly, 1965, London
15. "Ghana: On the Cultural Front" in Fighting Talk, October 1962, Johannesburg
16. "For a Cultural Boycott" in Fighting Talk, July 1962 ¢ "Writers of Africa" in Fighting Talk, September 1962
17. "Out of Africa"-the literary scene-in Encounter, April, 1960, London
18. "Cultural Activity in Africa" in Manas, August 25, 1965, California
19. "Cultural Tensions in a Mixed Society" in Racial and Communal Tensions -- African Contemporary Monographs No. 3, East African Publishing House, Nairobi, 1966
20. "My Heart Said Speak Bold": Tribute to Todd Matshikiza, writer and musician on the occasion of his death in 1968, in Topic 33, United Information Agency, Washington, 1968
21. "Uganda Intellectuals and the State" in Times of Zambia, February 6, 1969, Lusaka.
22. "Black and White": on South African literature, in New Statesman, September 10, 1960, London
23. "Rediscovery of African Culture" in Africa and the World, November 1968, London
24. "From the Black American World"(I) in Okike, No. 4, ed Chinua Achebe, December 1973, Amherst, MA
25. "From the Black American World" (II): on Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, in Okike, No. 4, June 1974, Amherst, MA
26. "African Literature: a dialogue of two selves" in Horizon, Vol. 11, No. 10, October 1969, Ndola, Zambia
27. "The Short Story: South Africa" in International Symposium on the Short Story in Kenyon Review 126, No. 4, Gambier, Ohio, 1969
28. "African Literature for Beginners" in Africa Today, Vol. XIV No. 1, 1967, University of Denver, Denver, USA.
29. "Why I teach my Discipline" in Denver Quarterly, Vol. 8 No. 1, Winter 1973, Denver.
30. "The Voice of Prophecy in African Poetry" in Umoja, Southwestern Afro-American Journal, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, 1973
31. "The Function of Literature at the Present Time: The Ethnic Imperative"-first given as a lecture in a symposium on the theme at the University of Denver-in Denver Quarterly, Vol. 9 No. 4, Winter 1975, Denver. Abridged in Transition 45, Vol. 9 (ii) ed Wole Soyinka, Accra, Ghana
32. "The Tyranny of Place" - first given as a lecture in a symposium at University of Missouri, Kansas City-in New Letters, Autumn 1973
33. "Mphahlele's reply to Addison Gayle, Jr" - an essay in reply to Gayle's review of Voices in the Whirlwind & Other Essays (Black World, July 1973) in Black World, Vol. XXIII No. 3, January 1974
34. "Notes from the Black American World" (III) discussion of Askia Muhammad Toure's poetry in relation to the element of mysticism and prophecy in contemporary African-American poetry, in Okike 8, 1975 "Notes from the Black American World: Images of Africa in Afro-American Literature" (IV), in Okike 10, 1976
35. Poem: "Exile in Nigeria" in Poems from Black Africa, ed Langston Hughes, Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1963 Poems: "Death", "Somewhere", "Homeward Bound" in New African Literature and the Arts I, ed Joseph Okpaku, New York: Thomas Y Crowell Co., in association with The Third Press, 1970
36. Poems: "A Poem: for all the victims of racist tyranny in Southern Africa"; "Death III-Variations on a theme by John Keats, or E.M. scores 55, December 17, 1974", in South African Voices-Occasional Publication by African and Afro-American Studies and Research Centre, in association with the Harry Ransom Centre, the University of Texas at Austin, 1975.
37. Poem: "Death II" in The Gar 18, Vol. 4, March-April 1975, Austin, Texas
38. Poem: "To you My People", The Classic Vol. 3, No. 1, Jhb: 1984
39. Poem: "Delmas on my Mind", Tribute magazine, December 1990
40. Poem: "Silences", Tribute magazine, August 1992
41. Review of E R Braithwaite's Honorary White-account of a visit to South Africa-in New York Times Book Review, 13 July, 1975
42. "Tribute to Leopold Sedar Senghor"-a prose poem-in Presence Africaine, 1977
43. "The African Critic Today - Toward a Definition", in Reading Black: Essays in the Criticism of African, Caribbean, and Black American Literature, ed. Houston A Baker, Jr, being contributions to a symposium on "The Function of Black Criticism at the Present Time", held at the University of Pennsylvania and published by African Studies and Research Center of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1976
44. "Higher Education in South Africa", commissioned by editor of The International Encyclopaedia of Higher Education, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1977
45. Oganda's Journey-a verse play: Staffrider, Jhb: July\August 1979
46. "The Wisdom of Africa: Notes on the Oral Tradition"-Staffrider, Johannesburg: November\December 1979
47. "Education: Towards a Humanistic Ideology": in Report on the Conference on Educational Priorities in a Developing State, Pretoria: De Jager, 1980
48. "Education and the Search for Self" in Teachers' Journal, Durban: Teachers' Association of South Africa, September 1980
49. "The Voice of Prophecy"-an essay on African poetry, English in Africa, Grahamstown: 1979
50. "Alternative Institutions of Education for Africans in South Africa: An Exploration of Rationale, Goals and Directions" in Harvard Educational Review Vol. 60, No., Cambridge, MA, Harvard University 1979
51. "Education as Community Development: Reordering of Values, Focus and Emphasis", Witwatersrand University Press, 1991
52. May 1987 to date (1997) a monthly column on a variety of themes in Tribute magazine, Johannesburg.
53. "Africa in Exile" in Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Spring 1982:
54. Black Africa: A Generation After Independence, Vol. III, No. 2 of the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
55. "Somewhere" (P) in From the Republic of Conscience: An International Anthology of Poetry ed Kerry Flattley & Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Flemington, Victoria, Australia: Aird Books, and Fredonia, NY, USA: White Pine Press-in association with Amnesty International, 1992