Popular African Short Story Books

Find short story books written by authors from Africa for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (63)

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We Killed Mangy-Dog : & Other Stories by Luís Bernardo Honwana EN

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Country: Africa / Mozambique flag Mozambique
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A collection of stories set in Mozambique.


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Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN

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Country: Africa / Nigeria flag Nigeria
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The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a moving short story by the bestselling, award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists When Zikora, a DC lawyer from Nigeria, tells her equally high-powered lover that she's pregnant, he abandons her. But it's Zikora's demanding, self-possessed mother, in town for the birth, who makes Zikora feel like a lonely little girl all over again. Shunned by the speed with which her ideal life fell apart, Zikora turns to reflecting on her mother's painful past and struggle for dignity. Prepa... continue