Shakespeare's Othello and Conrad's Heart of Darkness are two works that inform Season of Migration to the North.
For more works by Tayeb Salih translated to English, please see: The Wedding of Zein and A Handful of Dates.
For further reading on colonialism and post-colonialism in Africa, consider: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958), Okot p'Bitek's Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol (1984), Majprie Oludge MacGoye's Coming to Birth (1986), Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Condition (1988), Meja Mwangi's The Mzungu Boy (1995), and Beverley Naidoo's Burn My Heart (2007).
Other scholarly work focusing on colonialism includes: Aime Cesaire's Discourse on Colonialism (1950), Albert Memmi's The...