Under African skies
Subtitle: modern African stories
By: edited and with an introduction by Charles R. Larson
Edition: 1st Noonday pbk. ed.
Publisher: Noonday Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: African Short stories; African fiction; Translations into English
Notes: Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.
Table of contents: title: The complete gentleman / Amos Tutuola; title: The eyes of the statue / Camara Laye; title: Sarzan / Birago Diop; title: Black girl / Sembene Ousmane; title: Papa, snake & I / Luis Bernardo Honwana; title: A meeting in the dark / Ngugi wa Thiong'o; title: A handful of dates / Tayeb Salih; title: Mrs. Plum / Es'kia Mphahlele; title: Tekayo / Grace Ogot; title: Two sisters / Ama Ata Aidoo; title: Girls at war / Chinua Achebe; title: The prisoner who wore glasses / Bessie Head; title: In the hospital / Similih M. Cordor; title: The true martyr is me / Rene Philombe; title: Innocent terror / Tijan M. Sallah; title: Africa kills her sun / Ken Saro-Wiwa; title: Afrika road / Don Mattera; title: Why don't you carve other animals / Yvonne Vera; title: The magician and the girl / Veronique Tadjo; title: A prayer from the living / Ben Okri; title: Effortless tears / Alexander Kanengoni; title: Give me a chance / Mzamane Nhlapo; title: Taken / Steve Chimombo; title: I'm not talking about that, now / Sindiwe Magona; title: My father, the Englishman, and I / Nuruddin Farah; title: A gathering of bald men / Mandla Langa