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A Particular Kind of Black Man

Author : Tope Folarin
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150117181X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book A Particular Kind of Black Man written by Tope Folarin and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of 2019 A New York Times, Washington Post, Telegraph, and BBC’s most anticipated book of August 2019 One of Time’s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer A stunning debut novel, from Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Tope Folarin about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uncomfortable assimilation to American life. Living in small-town Utah has always been an uneasy fit for Tunde Akinola’s family, especially for his Nigeria-born parents. Though Tunde speaks English with a Midwestern accent, he can’t escape the children who rub his skin and ask why the black won’t come off. As he struggles to fit in and find his place in the world, he finds little solace from his parents who are grappling with their own issues. Tunde’s father, ever the optimist, works tirelessly chasing his American dream while his wife, lonely in Utah without family and friends, sinks deeper into schizophrenia. Then one otherwise-ordinary morning, Tunde’s mother wakes him with a hug, bundles him and his baby brother into the car, and takes them away from the only home they’ve ever known. But running away doesn’t bring her, or her children, any relief from the demons that plague her; once Tunde’s father tracks them down, she flees to Nigeria, and Tunde never feels at home again. He spends the rest of his childhood and young adulthood searching for connection—to the wary stepmother and stepbrothers he gains when his father remarries; to the Utah residents who mock his father’s accent; to evangelical religion; to his Texas middle school’s crowd of African-Americans; to the fraternity brothers of his historically black college. In so doing, he discovers something that sends him on a journey away from everything he has known. Sweeping, stirring, and perspective-shifting, A Particular Kind of Black Man is a beautiful and poignant exploration of the meaning of memory, manhood, home, and identity as seen through the eyes of a first-generation Nigerian-American.

Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015

Author : Segun Afolabi
Publisher : New Internationalist
ISBN 13 : 1780262299
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 written by Segun Afolabi and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its sixteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. This collection collects the five 2015 shortlisted stories, along with stories written at the Caine Prize Writers’ Workshop, which took place in April 2015.

Jambula Tree

Author : Monica Arac de Nyeko
Publisher : New Internationalist
ISBN 13 : 1904456731
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Jambula Tree written by Monica Arac de Nyeko and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary prize, is for a short story published in English by a writer of African origin. Each year, the winning story and shortlisted entries are collected and published in one volume. The eighth winner is Monica Arac de Nyeko from Uganda for Jambula Tree. Chair of Judges Jamal Mahjoub from Sudan describes her story as a witty and touching portrait of a community which is affected forever by a love which blossoms between two adolescents.''

The Whispering Trees

Author : Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Publisher : Parresia Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789237251
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Whispering Trees written by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and published by Parresia Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Whispering Trees, award winning writer Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s debut collection of short stories, employs nuance, subtle drama and deadpan humour to capture colourful Nigerian lives. There’s Kyakkyawa, who sparks forbidden thoughts in her father and has a bit of angels and witches in her; there’s the mysterious butterfly girl who just might be a incarnation of Ohikwo’s long dead mother; there’s also a flummoxed white woman caught between two Nigerian brothers and an unfolding scandal, and, of course, the two medicine men of Mazade who battle against their egos, an epidemic and an enigmatic witch.

Feast, Famine and Potluck

Author : Karen Jennings
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 0620588861
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Feast, Famine and Potluck written by Karen Jennings and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

We Need New Names

Author : NoViolet Bulawayo
Publisher : Reagan Arthur Books
ISBN 13 : 0316230839
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book We Need New Names written by NoViolet Bulawayo and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unflinching and powerful novel tells the "deeply felt and fiercely written" story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe to America (New York Times Book Review). Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her — from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to J.M. Coetzee — while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. "Original, witty, and devastating." —People

Discovering Home

Author :
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 9781919931555
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Home written by and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of stories from the Caine Prize for African Writing includes works by writers from Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa, most of whom have never before been published.

The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013

Author : Caine Prize
Publisher : New Internationalist
ISBN 13 : 1780261195
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013 written by Caine Prize and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its fourteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize for short stories.

The Granta Book of the African Short Story

Author : Helon Habila
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847084389
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Granta Book of the African Short Story written by Helon Habila and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

So the Path Does Not Die

Author : Pede Hollist
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956727377
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book So the Path Does Not Die written by Pede Hollist and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protagonist Fina's search for happiness and belonging begins on the night of her aborted circumcision and continues through her teenage years in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital; her twenties in the Washington Metropolitan Area; and ends with her return to Sierra Leone to work as an advocate for war-traumatized children. The novel explores the problems she encounters in each setting against the backdrop of the tensions, ambiguities, and fragmentation of the stranger/immigrant condition and the characters' struggles to clarify their ideas about "home" and "abroad." Fina's circumcision gets significant, though not sensational, play in the different attitudes toward the practice between her and her fiance Cammy, a Trinidadian urologist. The differences complicate their relationship at a time when skeletons from their pasts threaten their impending marriage. The stories of Fina's friend, African-American Aman and her fiance, Nigerian Bayo; of Edna (Fina's foster sister) and her husband Kizzy; and of Mawaf, a war-traumatized teen, unfold in subplots that merge with the main plot and overarching theme of belonging as characters straddle "home" and "abroad" places."

African Short Stories: Vol 1

Author : Ce, Chin
Publisher : Handel Books
ISBN 13 : 9783603574
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book African Short Stories: Vol 1 written by Ce, Chin and published by Handel Books. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Society of Literary Fellows (Lsi) is the society of creative writers and scholars from African and the world with a critical interest in current developments around modern cultures of indigenous and foreign language expressions. In partnership with Progeny international, the Lsi aims to assess and promote the emergence of works of visionary creative impetus in the genres of modern African fiction, non-fiction and visual arts. 38 stories are included in this anthology.

Happiness, Like Water

Author : Chinelo Okparanta
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544003454
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Happiness, Like Water written by Chinelo Okparanta and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving debut story collection centered on Nigerian women, as they build lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, and the burden and strength of love.

A New Generation of African Writers

Author : Brenda Cooper
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847010768
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book A New Generation of African Writers written by Brenda Cooper and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brenda Cooper examines the work of the new generation of African writers who have placed migration as central to their writing

God's Children Are Little Broken Things

Author : Arinze Ifeakandu
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781399606271
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book God's Children Are Little Broken Things written by Arinze Ifeakandu and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Although he writes about queer lives and loves in Nigeria, Arinze Ifeakandu's voice is sensually alert to the human and universal in every situation. These quietly transgressive stories are the work of a brilliant new talent' DAMON GALGUT, Booker Prize-winning author of The Promise 'Contemporary love stories with moments of real surprise and revelation' BRANDON TAYLOR, author of Real Life 'Gorgeous... A hugely impressive collection, full of subtlety, wisdom and heart' SARAH WATERS, author of Fingersmith 'Captures the tenderness and tumult of queer love, familial love, self-love, and the many ways love elates and eludes us.... Masterful. What a glorious collection!' DEESHA PHILYAW, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies 'Magic in motion... A staggering, heartshattering show' ELOGHOSA OSUNDE, author of Vagabonds! 'Raw tender grace... A serious literary talent has emerged' COLM TÓIBÍN, author of The Magician 'Quite simply a tour de force' SARAH HALL, author of Burntcoat In this stunning debut from one of Nigeria's most promising young writers, the stakes of love meet a society in flux A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn't understand then. A daughter returns home to Lagos after the death of her father, where she must face her past - and future -relationship with his longtime partner. A young musician rises to fame at the risk of losing himself and the man who loves him. Generations collide, families break and are remade, languages and cultures intertwine, and lovers find their ways to futures; from childhood through adulthood; on university campuses, city centres, and neighbourhoods where church bells mingle with the morning call to prayer. These nine stories of queer male intimacy brim with simmering secrecy, ecstasy, loneliness and love in their depictions of what it means to be gay in contemporary Nigeria.

How to Write About Africa

Author : Binyavanga Wainaina
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0812989678
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book How to Write About Africa written by Binyavanga Wainaina and published by One World. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality “A fierce literary talent . . . [Wainaina] shines a light on his continent without cliché.”—The Guardian “Africa is the only continent you can love—take advantage of this. . . . Africa is to be pitied, worshipped, or dominated. Whichever angle you take, be sure to leave the strong impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa is doomed.” Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemporary African life. This groundbreaking collection brings together, for the first time, Wainaina’s pioneering writing on the African continent, including many of his most critically acclaimed pieces, such as the viral satirical sensation “How to Write About Africa.” Working fearlessly across a range of topics—from politics to international aid, cultural heritage, and redefined sexuality—he describes the modern world with sensual, emotional, and psychological detail, giving us a full-color view of his home country and continent. These works present the portrait of a giant in African literature who left a tremendous legacy.

The Reactive

Author : Masande Ntshanga
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1415206120
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book The Reactive written by Masande Ntshanga and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a city that has lost its shimmer, Lindanathi and his two friends Ruan and Cecelia sell illegal pharmaceuticals while chasing their next high. Lindanathi, deeply troubled by his hand in his brother’s death, has turned his back on his family, until a message from home reminds him of a promise he made years before. When a puzzling masked man enters their lives, Lindanathi is faced with a decision: continue his life in Cape Town, or return to his family and to all he has left behind. Rendered in lyrical, bright prose and set in a not-so-new South Africa, The Reactive is a poignant, life-affirming story about secrets, memory, chemical abuse and family, and the redemption that comes from facing what haunts us most.

The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing 2020

Author : Erica Sugo Anyadike
Publisher : New Internationalist
ISBN 13 : 1780265808
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing 2020 written by Erica Sugo Anyadike and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 21st year, the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing is African’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. The collection brings together the five stories on the 2020 shortlist. The authors shortlisted for the 2020 AKO Caine Prize are: - Jowhor Ile (Nigeria) for Fisherman’s Stew - Rémy Ngamije (Rwanda/Namibia) for The Neighbourhood Watch - Irenosen Okojie (Nigeria) for Grace Jones - Erica Sugo Anyadike (Tanzania) for How to Marry an African President - Chikodili Emeladu (Nigeria) for What to do when your child brings home a Mami Wata The 2020 judging panel comprises: - Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp (Chair) has over 35 years’ experience in the UK arts and cultural sector, including a 25-year career as a dancer, choreographer, teacher and director. Since May 2018 he has been Director of The Africa Centre. - Audrey Brown is a South African broadcast journalist, who currently presents the BBC World Service flagship daily news and current affairs programme, Focus on Africa. Gabriel Gbadamosi is an Irish-Nigerian poet and playwright. His London novel Vauxhall (2013) won the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize and Best International Novel at the Sharjah Book Fair. - James Murua is a Kenya-based blogger, journalist, podcaster and editor who has written for a variety of media outlets in a career spanning print, web and TV. - Ebissé Wakjira-Rouw is an Ethiopian-born non-fiction editor, podcaster, publisher and policy advisor at the Dutch Council for Culture in the Netherlands.