Gods and soldiers
Subtitle: the Penguin anthology of current African writing
By: edited by Rob Spillman.
Contributors: Spillman, Rob.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780143114734
Subjects: African literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English; African literature (English) -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction by Robert Spillman; title: West Africa: Nonfiction. Chinua Achebe (Nigeria): The African writer and the English language; title: Fiction. Helon Habila (Nigeria): from Waiting for an angel; title: Mohammed Neseehu Ali (Ghana): The manhood test; title: Chris Abani (Nigeria): from Becoming Abigail; title: E. C. Osondu (Nigeria): Voice of America; title: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria): Half of a yellow sun; title: Francophone Africa: Nonfiction. Patrice Nganang (Cameroon): The Senghor complex; title: Fiction. Alain Mabanckou (Congo): from Broken window; title: Fatou Diome (Senegal): from The belly of the Atlantic; title: Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal): from Murambi, the book of bones; title: North Africa: Nonfiction. Laila Lalami (Morocco): The politics of reading fiction; title: Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt): from Woman at point zero; title: Mohamed Magani (Algiers): From The butcher's aesthetics; title: Aziz Chouaki (Algiers): from The star of Algiers; title: Leila Aboulela (Sudan): "Souvenirs"; title: East Africa: Nonfiction. Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya): from Discovering home; title: Fiction. Nng'g' wa thiong'o (Kenya): from Wizard of the crow; title: Doreen Baingana (Uganda): Christianity killed the cat; title: Nuruddin Farah (Somalia): from Knots; title: Abdourahman A. Waberi (Djibouti): from The united states of Africa; title: Former Portuguese Colonies: Nonfiction. Mia Couto (Mozambique): Languages we don't know we know; title: Fiction. Ondjaki (Angola): Dragonfly; title: José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola): from The book of chameleons; title: Southern Africa: Nonfiction. J. M. Coetzee (South Africa): from Stranger shores; title: Fiction. Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe): Dead swimmers; title: Niq Mhlongo (South Africa): from Dog eat dog; title: Nadine Gordimer (South Africa): "A beneficiary"; title: Marlene Van Niekerk (South Africa): from Agaat; title: Zakes Mda (South Africa): from Ways of dying; title: Ivan Vladislavi' (South Africa): "The whites only bench".