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Title African short stories / selected and edited by Chinua Achebe and C.L. Innes.

Publication Info. London : Heinemann Educational Publishers, c1987.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Harmon  823.010896 Af83 1987    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 159 pages ; 19 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series African writers series
African writers series.
Contents The false prophet / Sembene Ousmane -- Certain winds from the south / Ama Ata Aidoo -- The apprentice / Odun Balogun -- The will of Allah / David Owoyele -- Civil peace / Chinua Achebe -- The gentlemen of the jungle / Jomo Kenyatta -- The green leaves / Grace Ogot -- Bossy / Abdulrazak Gurnah -- The spider's web / Leonard Kibera -- Minutes of glory / Ngugi wa Thiongo -- An incident in the Ghobashi household / Alifa Rifaat -- A handful of dates / Tayeb Salih -- A conversation from the third floor / Mohamed El-Bisatie -- Papa, Snake & I / B.L. Honwana -- The bridegroom / Nadine Gordimer -- The betrayal / Ahmed Essop -- Protista / Dambudzo Marechera -- The coffee-cart girl / Ezekiel Mphahlele -- Snapshots of a wedding / Bessie Head -- Reflections in a cell / Mafika Gwala.
Summary A fine anthology, well selected, well ordered, and altogether a pleasure to read. The editors have chosen twenty stories by twenty different writers from all over Africa, grouping them geographically into four different sections: West, East, North and Southern Africa.... They have done a particularly good job of balancing the work of lesser-known, younger writers with established figures: David Owoyele as well as Adhebe, Abdulrzak Gurnah as well as Ngugi, Ahmed Essop as well as Nadine Gordimer and Bessie Head.
Subject Short stories, African (English)
Short stories, African -- Translations into English.
Africa -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Africa -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
Short stories, African (English) (OCoLC)fst01117055
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Short stories, African. (OCoLC)fst01117054
Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
Short stories, African -- Translations into English.
Genre/Form Short stories (OCoLC)fst01726740
Short stories.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
Added Author Achebe, Chinua, editor.
Innes, Catherine Lynette, editor.
Other Title Twenty short stories from across the continent
ISBN 0435905368 (pbk.)
9780435905361 (pbk.)
0435905376 (export)
9780435905378 (export)
0435902709
9780435902704

 
    
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