Author : Nadezda Obradovic
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 2002-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Thirty-four powerful stories that inform, entertain, and illuminate from the best emerging and award-winning African writers working today, including nine new stories that detail struggles with the legacy of colonialism, countries torn apart by civil war, and the growing AIDS epidemic. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Charles R. Larson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374211787
An anthology of short stories by African writers from a dozen countries. The subjects range from war and politics to problems with domestics and African humor. Some stories were written in English, others are translations from Arabic, French and Portuguese. All were written in the latter part of the 20th century.
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780435905668
A collection of 20 stories written between 1980-1991 which deal with themes relevant to various regions of Africa.
Author : ELLIS AYITEY KOMEY, EZEKIEL MPHAHLELE
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 1964
Category :
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Author : Barbara H. Solomon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101617446
Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Reflecting a continent with a tragic history, An African Quilt depicts a place where even everyday life is extraordinary, and the continent’s history changes what it means to be a woman, an employee, a couple, a passerby, and, of course, a citizen. Revealed through the backdrop of postcolonial Africa, the struggles within these stories resonate beyond their context and appeal to every reader’s sense of what it means to be human. Includes Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Bessie Head, Doris Lessing (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Others
Author : Gerald Moore
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780141181004
Offers a selection of African poetry arranged by country
Author : Stephen Gray
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Short stories, South African (English)
ISBN :
Author : ELLIS AYITEY KOMEY, EZEKIEL MPHAHLELE
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Chin Ce
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783703692
Bequeathing an enduring tenet for the creative enterprise, African Short Stories vol 2 boldly seeks to upturn the status quo by the art of narration. Whether they are stories of the whistle blower estranged and yet sounding the warning for heaven and earth to hear, or a ragtag army fleeing in the wake of a monstrous reptilian onslaught upon her peace, there pervades a sense of ultimate victory in this collection. We can feel the gentle kick of a baby in the womb of a maiden in desperation, or we can muse at the two adolescent genii on the trail of their dreams from the sunset of mutual deceit into the daylight of true becoming. Victory is laid out in that awesome kindness of a total stranger which affirms the divinity latent in even our most harrowing existence. With thirty five stories in two parts these literary experiments compel attention to the courageous hearts and minds that brighten the African universe of narration. Their vibrant notes coming from all corners of north, west, east and south fill us with encouragement and optimism for the contemporary short fiction in Africa.
Author : Syl Cheney-Coker
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0821444654
The reincarnation of a legendary nineteenth-century Caribbean emperor as a contemporary African leader is at the heart of this novel. Sacred River deals with the extraordinary lives, hopes, powerful myths, stories, and tragedies of the people of a modern West African nation. It is also the compelling love story of an idealistic philosophy professor and an ex-courtesan of incomparable beauty. Two hundred years after his death, the great Haitian emperor Henri Christophe miraculously appears in a dream to Tankor Satani, president of the fictional West African country of Kissi, with instructions for Tankor to continue Henri Christophe’s rule, which had been interrupted by “that damned Napoleon.” Ambitious in scope, Sacred River is a diaspora-inspired novel, in which Cheney-Coker has tackled the major themes of politics, social strife, crime and punishment, and human frailty and redemption in Malagueta, the fictional, magical town and its surroundings first created by the author in The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar, for which he was awarded the coveted Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Sacred River is equally about love and politics, and marks the return to fiction of one of Africa’s major writers.
