num_pages: 227
description: There is everything in this collection from the delightful lingustic orginality of the Nigerian Amos Tutuola to the short, harsh sketch of pretty violence on a Monday morning Dube train by the South African Can Themba...  Cut me a drink / Christiana A. Aidoo  Ding dong bell / Kwabena Annan  Death of a boy / Chinua Achebe  Me and the fish god / Ato Bedwei  This is experience speaking / Peter Kwame Buahin  Mista Courifer / Adelaide Casely-Hayford  The blood in the washbasin / William Conton  Koya / R. Sarif Easmon  A stranger from Lagos / Cyprian Ekwensi  Coffee for the road / Alex la Guma  Machado / Alfred Hutchinson  A man can try / Edlred Durosimi Jones  I can face you / Ellis Komey  The second coming / James Matthews  On the beat: sketches of South African life / Casey Motsisi  Grieg on a stolen piano / Ezekiel Mphahlele  A meeting in the dark / James Ngugi  The judge's son / Abioseh Nicol  The gambler / Nkem Nwankwo  The rain came / Grace A Ogot  The crooks / Gabriel Okara  The will of Allah / David Owoyele  Rain / Richard Rive  Feather Woman of the jungle / Amos Tutuola  The dube train / Can Themba.
language: English
title: Modern African Stories
titlecomplete: Modern African Stories
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Faber & Faber