The Regime- Looking In: South African Short Stories

It tackles African brain drain, blogging, diasporans returning to Africa, US and British strains of racism — and best of all, is laugh out loud funny in more places than we can count.

This is an immensely unputdownable book. And we absolutely understand her obsession with plums. There are many, many reasons to love this book — and each is a title in this brilliant collection. This anthology is a radical collection of love stories from African women. The collection is a radical departure from conventional anthologies and the love theme is aimed at debunking the myth that African Women are poor and helpless victims whilst showing their strength, complexity and diversity.

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The stories deal with a range of challenging themes including taboo subjects such as homosexuality, domestic violence, female circumcision, ageism amongst others to produce a melting pot of narratives from interesting and informed perspectives. A Nigerian novelist, and short story writer. Her radio plays have been broadcast by the BBC.

Everything Good Will Come is a coming of age novel about a girl growing into a woman in postcolonial Nigeria and England. Throughout the novel the main character, Enitan, is faced with various issues such as family troubles, rape, cheating boyfriends, and imprisonment. Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim, but at an early age came to criticise what she perceived as inequalities between the sexes resulting from African traditions.

Raised by her traditional grandparents, she had to struggle even to gain an education, because they did not believe that girls should be taught.

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This novel is a perceptive testimony to the plight of articulate women who live in social milieux dominated by attitudes and values that deny them their proper place. It is a sequence of reminiscences, some wistful, some bitter, recounted by a recently widowed Senegalese school teacher.

Tropical Fish is a collection of linked short stories that explore the coming of age of three African sisters. Ellen Banda-Aaku was born in Woking Surrey in A South African novelist, short story writer, journalist, and TV scriptwriter. Beukes, born in Johannesburg, currently lives in Cape Town. She worked as a freelance journalist for ten years, including two years in New York and Chicago. The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: Kirby is lucky she survived the attack. She is sure there were other victims were less fortunate, but the evidence she finds is … impossible.

But what if the one that got away came back for him?

Noviolet Bulawayo was born in Tsholotsho. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in — who wants to be a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart? For Darling, that dream will come true. She works as a writer, editor, consultant, reviewer and broadcaster.

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Arranged chronologically, this anthology of writing spans from the Ancient Queen Hatshepsut and the Queen of Sheba, to popular contemporaries such as Maya Angelou, Alice Walker and Buchi Emecheto, and includes many lesser known writers and anonymous traditional works that exemplify the oral tradition handed down through the generations.

This anthology brings together women from across the globe and besides translations from African languages it includes work originally written in Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Dangarembga was born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia now Zimbabwe , in but spent part of her childhood in England. She began her education there, but concluded her A-levels at Hartzell High school, a missionary school in the Rhodesian town of Umtali now Mutare.

She later studied medicine at Cambridge University but returned home soon after Zimbabwe was internationally recognised in The semi-autobiographical novel focuses on the story of a Rhodesian family in post-colonial Rhodesia during the s.

The novel attempts to illustrate the dynamic themes of race, class, gender, and cultural change during the post-colonial conditions of present-day Zimbabwe. She has written many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital cutting in her society. She has been awarded honorary degrees on three continents. In , she won the North-South prize from the Council of Europe. But because I am a woman I have never had the courage to lift my hand. Born to a peasant family in the Egyptian countryside, Firdaus suffers a childhood of cruelty and neglect.

Her passion for education is ignored by her family, and on leaving school she is forced to marry a much older man. Desperate and alone, she takes drastic action. Is a Nigerian novelist who has published over 20 books. Her themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education have won her considerable critical acclaim and honours, including an Order of the British Empire in It tells the tragic story of Nnu-Ego, daughter of Nwokocha Agbadi and Ona, who had a bad fate with childbearing.

Campbell Literature Prize awarded annually by Yale University. Freetown, Sierra Leone, On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. Elsewhere in the hospital, Kai, a gifted young surgeon, is desperately trying to forget the pain of a lost love that torments him as much as the mental scars he still bears from the civil war that has left an entire people with terrible secrets to keep.

The Memory of Love is a heartbreaking story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. So it is that every evening after work, at six sharp, I take my promenade along the sea wall near my flat. I clip along at a steady lope: My fists are bunched before my chest; I thrust them forward and back, kicking my feet one-two one-two, my elbows winging to the sides.

Yes, I am one of those speed-walkers. I have the gear: No vests; I really am too old for that. Once a year I buy a new pair of Nikes or New Balances, a virtuous treat. On my outward journey, the sea lies to my left, grey or blue or silver.

Here I sometimes pause to stretch on the strip of lawn, before continuing another fifteen minutes along the promenade as far as the public telephones. I roll the newspaper tightly and hold it baton-like in one hand for the rest of the route home only unsatisfactory on the weekends, when the editions are too fat for comfort. No wallet or cellphone; although the promenade is busy and safe at that time, you can never be too careful.

And I like to stay light.

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