African Stories

Table Of Contents

CONTENTS

Preface by Ben Okri

Chinua Achebe, “The Voter” / NIGERIA
Olympe Bhely-Quenum, “A Child in the Bush of Ghosts” / REPUBLIC OF BENIN
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, “The Martyr” / KENYA
Bessie Head, “Jacob: The Story of the Faith-Healing Priest” / SOUTH AFRICA and BOTSWANA
Camara Laye, “The Eyes of the Statue” / GUINEA
Doris Lessing, “A Sunrise on the Veld” / ZIMBABWE, Nobel Prize winner
Ben Okri, “Incidents at the Shrine” / NIGERIA
Grace Ogot, “Green Leaves” / KENYA
Ousmane Sembene, “Tribal Marks” / SENEGAL
Mouhamadou Nouktan Diop, “The Pot of Gold” / MAURITIUS
Abdulrazak Gurnah, “Cages” / ZANZIBAR, Nobel Prize winner
Ama Ata Aidoo, “Two Sisters” / GHANA
Mia Couto, “The Birds of God” / MOZAMBIQUE
Jomo Kenyatta, “Gentlemen of the Jungle” / KENYA
Tayeb Salih, “A Handful of Dates” / SUDAN
Ezekiel (Es’kia) Mphahlele, “The Coffee-Cart Girl” / SOUTH AFRICA
David Owoyele, “The Will of Allah” / NIGERIA
Nadine Gordimer, “Amnesty” / SOUTH AFRICA, Nobel Prize winner
Henri Lopes, “The Plot” / REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Clementine Nzuji Madiya, “Ditetembwa” / ZAIRE
Daniel Mandishona, “A Wasted Land” / ZIMBABWE
Ahmed Essop, “Hajji Musa and the Hindu Fire-Walker” / INDIA/SOUTH AFRICA
J . M. Coetzee, “The Glass Abattoir” / SOUTH AFRICA, Nobel Prize winner
Jean Pliya, “The Watch-Night” / REPUBLIC OF BENIN
Guillaume Oyono-Mbia, “The Little Railway Station” / CAMEROON
B. L. Honwana, “Papa, Snake & I” / MOZAMBIQUE
Saida Hagi-Dirie Herzi, “Government by Magic Spell” / SOMALIA
Dambudzo Marechera, “Protista” / ZIMBABWE
Jack Cope, “Power” / SOUTH AFRICA
Jamal Mahjoub, “Road Block” / SUDAN
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, “Ghosts” / NIGERIA
Francis Bebey, “Edda’s Marriage” / CAMEROON
Adewale Maja Pearce, “The Hotel” / NIGERIA
Okey Chigbo, “The Housegirl” / NIGERIA
M. G. Vassanji, “Leaving” / TANZANIA
Emmanuel Boundzeki Dongala, “Jazz and Palm Wine” / CONGO