| Description |
371 pages ; 18 cm |
| Note |
1st Signet Classics printing, January, 2013. |
| Contents |
Museum / Leila Aboulela -- Civil Peace / Chinua Achebe -- Private experience / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Two sisters / Ama Ata Aidoo -- First kiss / Doreen Baingana -- Another day at the office / Steve Chimombo -- Inkalamu's place / Nadine Gordimer -- Cages / Abdulrazak Gurnah -- Lomba / Helon Habila -- Earth love / Bessie Head -- Effortless tears / Alexander Kanengoni -- Cardboard mansions / Farida Karodia -- Lemon orchard / Alex La Guma -- Second hut / Doris Lessing -- Mrs. Plum / Es'kia Mphahlele -- Who will stop the dark? / Charles Mungoshi -- Middle door / Grace Ogot -- Under new pastoral management / Tanure Ojaide -- Power of a plate of rice / Ifeoma Okoye -- Voice of America / E. C. Osondu -- Eighteen-ninety-nine / Olive Schreiner -- Suit / Can Themba -- Minutes of glory / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- / N2 / Zoe Wicomb. |
| Summary |
Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters stuggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. (p. 4 of cover). |
| Subject |
Africans -- Fiction.
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Africa -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Solomon, Barbara H.
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Rampone, W. Reginald.
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| Added Title |
Twenty-four modern African stories. |
| ISBN |
9780451532039 (pbk.) |
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0451532031 (pbk.) |
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