African Short Stories » (1st Edition)

CHINUA ACHEBE was born in 1930 in the village of Ogidi in Eastern Nigeria. After studying medicine and literature at the University of Ibadan, he went to work for the Nigerian broadcasting company in Lagos. Things Fall Apart, his first novel was published in 1958. It sold over 2,000,000 copies, and has been translated into 30 languages. It was followed by No Longer at Ease, then Arrow of God (which won the first New Statesman Jock Campbell Prize), then A Man of the People (a novel dealing with post-independence Nigeria). Achebe has also written short stories and children's books, and Beware Soul Brother, a book of his poetry, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1972. Achebe has been at the Universities of Nigeria, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and among the many honours he has received are the award of a Fellowship of the Modern Language Association of America, and doctorates from the Universities of Stirling, Southampton and Kent. He followed Heinrich Boll, t

A selection of the best African stories written between 1960 and 1985.

**********West Africa**********

The False Prophet - Sembene Ousmane

Certain Winds from the South - Ama Ata Aidoo

The Apprentice - Odun Balogun

The Will of Allah - David Owoyele

Civil Peace - Chinua Achebe

**********East Africa**********

The Gentlemen of the Jungle - Jomo Kenyatta

The Green Leaves - Grace Ogot

Bossy - Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Spider's Web - Leonard Kibera

Minutes of Glory - Ngugi we Thiong'o

**********Northern Africa**********

An Incident in the Ghobashi Household - Alifa Rifaat

A Handful of Dates - Tayeb Salih

A Conversation from the Third Floor - Mohammed El-Bisatie

**********Southern Africa**********

Papa, Snake & I - B. L. Honwana

The Bridegroom - Nadine Gordimer

The Betrayal - Ahmed Essop

Protista - Dambudzo Marechera

The Coffee-Cart Girl - Ezekiel Mphahlele

Snapshots of a Wedding - Bessie Head

Reflections in a Cell - Mafika Gwala