the honour to a posthumous award. Selected works When Love Whispers (1948) An African Night's Entertainment (1948) The Boa Suitor (1949) The Leopard's Claw (1950) People of the City (London: Andrew Dakers, 1954)(This novel has been translated into Sinhala by Kumudu Champike Jayawardana (නුවරු – කුමුදු චම්පික ජයවර්ධන)) The Drummer Boy (1960) The Passport of Mallam Ilia (written 1948, published 1960) Jagua Nana (1961) Burning Grass (1961) An African Night's Entertainment (1962) Beautiful Feathers (novel; London: Hutchinson, 1963) Rainmaker (short stories; 1965) Iska (London: Hutchinson, 1966) Lokotown and Other Stories (Heinemann, 1966) Restless City and Christmas Gold (1975) Divided We Stand: a Novel of the Nigerian Civil War (1980) Motherless Baby (Nigeria: Fourth Dimension Publishing Company, 1980) Jagua Nana's Daughter (1987) Behind the Convent Wall (1987) The Great Elephant Bird (Evans Brothers, 1990 Gone to Mecca (Heinemann Educational Books, 1991) Jagua Nana's Daughter (1993) Masquerade Time (children's book; London: Chelsea House Publishing; Jaws Maui, 1994) Cash on Delivery (2007, collection of short stories) References Further reading Shola Adenekan, Cyprian Ekwensi obituary, The Guardian, 24 January 2008 Sonnie Ekwowusi, "Ode to a Literary Colossus", This Day, 13 November 2007 (column by former student) External links List of books, Literary map of Africa: West Africa – Nigeria. 1921 births 2007 deaths Government College, Ibadan alumni Nigerian male novelists Alumni of Achimota School Nigerian children's writers People from Minna Igbo writers Igbo children's writers Igbo pharmacists Igbo novelists 20th-century Nigerian novelists 21st-century Nigerian writers People of the Nigerian Civil War International Writing Program alumni 20th-century male writers Nigerian expatriates in the United Kingdom