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Title:

Under African skies : modern African stories / edited, and with an introduction by Charles R. Larson.

Edition:

1st Noonday pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Noonday Press,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

xix, 315 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Short stories, African.
African fiction--20th century.
Short stories, African--Translations into English.

Other Authors:

Larson, Charles R.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

Contents:

The complete gentleman / Amos Tutuola -- The eyes of the statue / Camara Laye -- Sarzan / Birago Diop -- Black girl / Sembene Ousmane -- Papa, snake & I / Luis Bernardo Honwana -- A meeting in the dark / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- A handful of dates / Tayeb Salih -- Mrs. Plum / Es'kia Mphahlele -- Tekayo / Grace Ogot -- Two sisters / Ama Ata Aidoo -- Girls at war / Chinua Achebe -- The prisoner who wore glasses / Bessie Head -- In the hospital / Similih M. Cordor -- The true martyr is me / Rene Philombe -- Innocent terror / Tijan M. Sallah -- Africa kills her sun / Ken Saro-Wiwa -- Afrika road / Don Mattera -- Why don't you carve other animals / Yvonne Vera -- The magician and the girl / Veronique Tadjo -- A prayer from the living / Ben Okri -- Effortless tears / Alexander Kanengoni -- Give me a chance / Mzamane Nhlapo -- Taken / Steve Chimombo -- I'm not talking about that, now / Sindiwe Magona -- My father, the Englishman, and I / Nuruddin Farah -- A gathering of bald men / Mandla Langa.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40253093

Locations:

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)