Twenty Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing

Author: Ben Okri

publisher name: New Internationalist

ISBN: 9781780265568

£11.99

book description

A jailer's love poems ghost-written by a prisoner... Love blossoming between two girls despite the horror of their community... Street kids stick-fighting or stealing guavas from the rich...

A dystopian world where women must go naked until they marry... A sparkling anthology of short stories featuring the first twenty winners of the Caine Prize, Africa's premier literary competition. This prestigious collection reflects the richness and diversity of African experience and features stories from Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Uganda, and Sierra Leone.