Farad, named for the unit of an electrical charge, is a novella that cuts laser-like through a multilayered society.

“More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat lifts the vil on what it means to be a women living within a traditional Muslim society.” So states the translator’s foreword to this collection of the Egyptian author’s best short stories.

EGO:
…How can oil that brings peace and progress in other lands bring only pain and punishment to us? When we had no oil, we were happier and at peace. When those long-nosed spirits from who knows where sniffed out oil on our land, we thought we had been blessed, but how wrong we were. May God save us from this curse!

Young, handsome and intelligent Chike Afare returns for his second year of university with the support of his seemingly stable middle-class family, the inspiring company of exciting friends and a growing curiosity about his place and role in the 90s Nigerian society.

After an exceptionally successful career as a butcher; Alaba, the protagonist of this play decided that he deserves a life of quite retirement. Unfortunately beneath the rock on which he has chosen to make his abode are precious mineral deposits.

Of French and Malagasy stock, involved in South African politics from an early age, Alex La Guma was arrested for treason with 155 others in 1956 and finally acquitted in 1960. During the State of Emergency following the Sharpeville massacre he was detained for five months.

A Gecko?s Farewell i s a novel about three Africans from different parts of the continent who meet in the spirit of (online) and plan to found a School of Stories.