The African Writers Series offers access to key works from the highly acclaimed Heinemann's African Writers Series. This series provides seminal works from the canon of African literature of the twentieth century, covering such authors as Steve Biko, Ama Ata Aidoo, Nadine Gordimer, and Buchi Emecheta. Top novels and short stories, along with drama and poetry, are fully searchable and richly indexed. Author biographies are included.

The African Writers Series is a growing collection that is compiled and designed for readers and researchers at every level, offering full-text access to the most important African literary works from the past four decades. Researchers are able to perform textual analyses of distinguished African novels and short stories together with an extensive collection of poetry, drama, and selected non-fiction. Researchers will also enjoy detailed indexing, high levels of textual accuracy and powerful search capabilities. African Writers Series will include more texts with releases scheduled throughout 2006.

The African Writers Series is also available integrated within Literature Online, offering users cross-searching with 350,000 other literary works and critical and reference material support.