23 African Short Stories

Author : Carol Kairo
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781449094164

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23 African Short Stories by Carol Kairo Pdf

This book contains 23 thrilling and intriguing African short stories delivered with the kind of humor and suspense that is guaranteed to captivate you. The stories include: An Era before Modern Medication - In an era where the remedy for any ailment - from headache to sore throat to a rash - could only be administered by the use of a hypodermic needle, "toa suruari" (remove your underwear) were the words most dreaded by many children. What If? - Living in the grip of poverty, Pendo had never known anyone whose radio used more than two batteries. But Mzungu, her secret lover has a big radio cassette that requires eight batteries to operate. Yes, eight! And he loves her - or so he claims. The Bitter Man - Loss of his job, the threat of eviction and tempting aromas from the neighbors' houses are only some of John's problems. And the landlord's black hen will simply not stay out of the hungry man's way... The Road to K'ogelo - When Barrack Obama wins the presidential elections, jubilation grips the air and his new found relatives from his father's roots prepare a big feast in K'ogelo. Word has it that Mr. Obama might be present at the celebrations and no one wants to be left behind. Navigating River Road - One man is determined to do whatever it takes to improve his relationship with his ruthless mother-in-law. His encounter with a karata man (gambler) presents an opportunity to win the old woman's favor once and for all.

Author : Ce, Chin
Publisher : Handel Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789783603585

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African Short Stories: Vol 2 by Ce, Chin Pdf

Bequeathing an enduring tenet for the creative enterprise, African Short Stories vol 2 boldly seeks to upturn the status quo by the art of narration. Whether they are stories of the whistle blower estranged and yet sounding the warning for heaven and earth to hear, or a ragtag army fleeing in the wake of a monstrous reptilian onslaught upon her peace, there pervades a sense of ultimate victory in this collection. We can feel the gentle kick of a baby in the womb of a maiden in desperation, or we can muse at the two adolescent genii on the trail of their dreams from the sunset of mutual deceit into the daylight of true becoming. Victory is laid out in that awesome kindness of a total stranger which affirms the divinity latent in even our most harrowing existence. With thirty five stories in two parts these literary experiments compel attention to the courageous hearts and minds that brighten the African universe of narration. Their vibrant notes coming from all corners of north, west, east and south fill us with encouragement and optimism for the contemporary short fiction in Africa.

Author : Helon Habila
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847084385

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The Granta Book of the African Short Story by Helon Habila Pdf

Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa. These writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world and the opportunities offered by the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the possibilities of free movement. Their work is inspired by travel and exile. They are liberated, global and expansive. As Dambudzo Marechera wrote: 'If you're a writer for a specific nation or specific race, then f*** you." These are the stories of a new Africa, punchy, self-confident and defiant. Includes stories by: Fatou Diome; Aminatta Forna; Manuel Rui; Patrice Nganang; Leila Aboulela; Zo Wicomb; Alaa Al Aswany; Doreen Baingana; E.C. Osondu.

Author : Jean de Grandsaigne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Short stories, African (English)
ISBN : UCAL:B3739855

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African Short Stories in English by Jean de Grandsaigne Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781785276200

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Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence by Anonim Pdf

In 1975, after much resistance, Portugal became the last colonial power to relinquish its colonies on the African continent. The tardiness of Portuguese decolonization in Africa (Cabo Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe) raises critical questions for the emergence of national literary and cultural production in the wake of national independence. Bringing together the works of poets, short story writers, and journalists, this book charts the emergence and evolution of the national literatures of Portugal’s former African colonies, from 1975 to the present. The aim of this book is to examine the ways in which writers contended with the process of decolonization, forging national, transnational, and diasporic identities through literature while grappling with the legacies and continuities of racial power structures, colonial systems of representation, and the struggles for political sovereignty and social justice. This book will be the first of its kind in English to include canonical, emerging, and previously untranslated authors of poetry and short-form fiction to a new public.

Author : Chinua Achebe,Catherine Lynette Innes
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : 043590566X

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The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories by Chinua Achebe,Catherine Lynette Innes Pdf

A collection of 20 stories written between 1980-1991 which deal with themes relevant to various regions of Africa.

Author : Grace Ogot
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 996646588X

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Land Without Thunder by Grace Ogot Pdf

Land Without Thunder is Grace Ogot's first collection of short stories. Her live feeling for the macabre and the fatalistic is reminiscent of the tragedy in her first full-length work, The Promised Land (1966). The stories in the collection are vividly told in a captivating and fast moving narrative.

Author : Ellis Ayitey Komey,Ezekiel Mphahlele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Africa
ISBN : LCCN:b66014518

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Modern African Stories by Ellis Ayitey Komey,Ezekiel Mphahlele Pdf

Author : Karen Jennings
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780620588867

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Feast, Famine and Potluck by Karen Jennings Pdf

A dazzling collection from across the African continent and diaspora here SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA has assembled the best nineteen stories from their 2013 competition. Food is at the centre of stories from authors emerging and established, blending the secular, the supernatural, the old and the new in a spectacular celebration of short fiction. Civil wars, evictions, vacations, feasts and romances the stories we bring to our tables that bring us together and tear us apart.

Author : Craig MacKenzie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004490376

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The Oral-Style South African Short Story in English by Craig MacKenzie Pdf

This study deals with a particular kind of short story in South African English literature - a kind of story variously called the fireside tale, tall tale, skaz narrative or (the term used here) the 'oral-style' story. Most famously exemplified in the Oom Schalk Lourens narratives of Herman Charles Bosman, the oral-style story has its roots in the hunting tale and camp-fire yarn of the nineteenth century and has dozens of exponents in South African literature, most of them long forgotten. Here this neglect has been addressed. A.W. Drayson's Tales at the Outspan (1862) provides a point of departure, and is followed by discussions of works by William Charles Scully, Percy FitzPatrick, Ernest Glanville, Perceval Gibbon, Francis Carey Slater, Pauline Smith, and Aegidius Jean Blignaut, all of whom used the oral-style story genre. In the work of Herman Charles Bosman, however, the South African oral-style story comes into its own. In his Oom Schalk Lourens figure is invested all of the complexity and 'double-voicedness' that was latent - and largely dormant - in the earlier works. Bosman demonstrates his sophistication particularly in his metafictional use of the oral-style story. The study concludes with a discussion of the use of oral forms in the work of more recent black writers - among them Bessie Head, Mtutuzeli Matshoba, and Njabulo Ndebele.

Author : Chin Ce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1301018406

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African Short Stories Vol. 1 by Chin Ce Pdf

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Short stories, African (English)
ISBN : 9781847010810

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Writing Africa in the Short Story by Ernest Emenyo̲nu Pdf

Author : Graham K. Riach
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781835533932

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The Short Story after Apartheid by Graham K. Riach Pdf

The Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid’s end. By focusing on the short story this book complicates models of South African literature dominated by the novel and contributes to a much-needed generic and formalist turn in postcolonial studies. Literary texts are sites of productive struggle between formal and extra-formal concerns, and these brief, fragmentary, elliptical, formally innovative stories offer perspectives that reframe or revise important concerns of post-apartheid literature: the aesthetics of engaged writing, the politics of the past, class and race, the legacies of violence, and the struggle over the land. Through an analysis of key texts from the period by Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, this book assesses the place of the short story in post-apartheid writing and develops a fuller model of how artworks allow and disallow forms of social thought.

Author : Barrack Muluka
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : African short stories (Macmillan)
ISBN : 9966467246

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Notes on J. de Grandsaigne and S. Nnamonu's (eds.) African Short Stories, an Anthology by Barrack Muluka Pdf

Author : StoryAfrica,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Wole Soyinka
Publisher : StoryAfrica
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451567021

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Africa's Best Stories by StoryAfrica,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Wole Soyinka Pdf

'Africa's best stories,' is a quarterly collection of the VERY best short stories and poetry by some of Africa's best writers. It is a selection of the best of African literature from Africa's finest writers.In this first volume, we feature heartwarming stories by some of Africa's most renowned writers such as Noble-Prize laureate Wole Soyinka, Orange Prize winner, Chimamanda Adichie, Caine Prize finalists Sefi Atta, EC Osondu, Chika Unigwe, Muthoni Garland, and Jude Dibia among other equally awesome writers. These are storytellers from the gods, telling a diverse range of stories, under varying circumstances. Just for your delight!Their stories will make you laugh, cry, grin, wish, reflect, reminisce and curse (not). Let these stories keep you company while lying in the comfort of your bed, on the subway on your way to work or when having a cup of tea.