The goddess of Mtwara and other stories
Subtitle: the Caine Prize for African Writing 2017
By: edited by Lizzy Attree
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781566560344
Subjects: Short stories, African (English)
Notes: Also published in 2017 in Europe and Australasia by New Internationalist Publications Ltd, Oxford, UK ; published in 2017 in South Africa by Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd, Auckland Park, South Africa.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Caine Prize 2017 shortlisted stories; title: Who will greet you at home  -- Lesley Nneka Arimah (Nigeria); title: Bush baby  -- Chikodili Emelumadu (Nigeria); title: The story of the girl whose birds flew away  -- Bushra al-Fadil (Sudan); title: God's children are little broken things  -- Arinze Ifeakandu (Nigeria); title: The virus  -- Magogodi oaMphela Makhene (South Africa) -- The Caine Prize African Writers' Workshop stories 2017; title: Fidel  -- Agazit Abate (Ethiopia); title: The secret language of vowels  -- Abdul Adan (Somalia/Kenya); title: Shells  -- Lesley Nneka Arimah (Nigeria); title: An unperson stands on the cracked pavement contemplating being and nothingness  -- Tendai Huchu (Zimbabwe); title: My mother's project  -- Lydia Kasese (Tanzania); title: This is how the heart breaks into a thousand pieces and then folds into a stone  -- Lidudumalingani (South Africa); title: The goddess of Mtwara  -- Esther Karin Mngodo (Tanzania); title: The storymage  -- Cheryl S. Ntumy (Ghana/Botswana); title: Five Is not half of ten  -- Daniel Rafiki (Rwanda); title: That little house in the village  -- Zaka Riwa (Tanzania); title: Family ties -- Darla Rudakubana (Rwanda) -- The Caine Prize rules of entry.