A selection of the best African stories written between 1960 and 1985.
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, th
Introduction
vii
(2)
Notes on Contributors
ix
(4)
Acknowledgements
xiii
West Africa
2
(34)
The False Prophet
2
(6)
Sembene Ousmane
Certain Winds from the South
8
(8)
Ama Ata Aidoo
The Apprentice
16
(6)
Odun Balogun
The Will of Allah
22
(7)
David Owoyele
Civil Peace
29
(7)
Chinua Achebe
East Africa
36
(50)
The Gentlemen of the Jungle
36
(4)
Jomo Kenyatta
The Green Leaves
40
(9)
Grace Ogot
Bossy
49
(12)
Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Spider's Web
61
(10)
Leonard Kibera
Minutes of Glory
71
(15)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Northern Africa
86
(16)
An Incident in the Ghobashi Household
86
(4)
Alifa Rifaat
A Handful of Dates
90
(5)
Tayeb Salih
A Conversation from the Third Floor
95
(7)
Mohamed El-Bisatie
Southern Africa
102
Papa, Snake & I
102
(13)
B.L. Honwana
The Bridegroom
115
(9)
Nadine Gordimer
The Betrayal
124
(6)
Ahmed Essop
Protista
130
(7)
Dambudzo Marechera
The Coffee-Cart Girl
137
(8)
Ezekiel Mphahlele
Snapshots of a Wedding
145
(5)
Bessie Head
Reflections in a Cell
150
Mafika Gwala
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