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), Marjorie Oludhe 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).
Scholarly work focusing on colonialism includes: Aime Cesaire's Discourse on Colonialism (1950), Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957), Edward W. Said's Orientalism (1978), and Anne McClintock's Imperial Leather (1995).
For other thematically relevant works by Doris Lessing, please see: Martha Quest (1952), The Golden Notebook...
