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Shakara
SHAKARA: DANCE-HALL QUEEN Shakara is 17 years-old and a school drop-out, who can no longer stand her poor mother with her ?born-again?
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Gardens And Caves
Gardens and Caves by Emmanuel Uweru Okoh is a 104-page poetry collection bearing a rare mix of the opposites of life; joy and pain, success and occasional flaws, flights and awkward stumbles and all else that make humans who they are.
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Alapata Apata
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.
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Zacks Story
Zack struggles with being a new Christian, a new husband and a new father all at once.
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Kemis Journal
The fictional diary of a young professional takes us into the world of sexual temptations, tangled emotions and family heartache.
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Tropical Fish
Tropical Fish is a collection of eight short stories:
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The Chattering Wagtails Of Mikuyu Prision
Formerly Head of the English Department, University of Malawi, Jack Mapanje was brutally arrested and imprisoned without trial for four years. Following his release in 1991, he moved to Britain with his wife and family. He has recently been appointed Northern Arts Writer-in Residence and now spends much of his time visiting prisons and lecturing on his experiences in Malawi.
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Smouldering Charcoal
Chronicles the lives of two families in post-colonial Africa, the first – poor, working-class and ill-educated – is compared to the young politically aware college student and her journalist fiance.
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Distant View Of A Minaret
“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.
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A Squatters Tale
A series of stories within a story, all narrated by Obi, a young, hopeful Nigerian immigrant in America.
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When God Came
The novel When God Came by Elechi Amadi comprises of two stories- Song of the Vanquished and When God came.
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The Triumph Of Doggedness
Rated 4.00 out of 501This story “The Triumph Of Doggedness” is centered on hardwork of a boy..
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Dead Men Don’t Talk
One of a series of readers for African students which aims to help them to develop an awareness and a love of language, and consists of stories from all over Africa.
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Harvest Of Corruption
The play revolves mostly around Aloho, a native and jobless university undergraduate who is desperately searching for a job. She meets Ochuole, a notorious old school mate of hers who is the Chief Administrative Officer at the Ministry of External Relations.
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The government inspector
The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities: "I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop." (Nikolai Gogol)
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A Walk In The Night
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.
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A Woman Alone
The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so the women of this collection.
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Dance Of The Delta
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!