Lusaka punk and other stories
A blind girl makes a pilgrimage to Lagos in search of a faith-healing miracle...A boy in a children's home discovers the truth about his origins...In apartheid Johannesburg, an Indian insurance agent is honoured by his white bosses but his wife feels more than a little uneasy...
Print Book, English, 2015
Jacana Media ; New Internationalist, Auckland Park, South Africa, Oxford, 2015
Fiction
268 pages ; 20 cm
9781431422623, 9781780262284, 9781780262291, 1431422622, 1780262280, 1780262299
1078444884
Caine Prize 2015 shortlisted stories. The folded leaf / Segun Afolabi (Nigeria) ; Flying / Elnathan John (Nigeria) ; A party for the colonel / F T Kola (South Africa) ; Space / Masande Ntshanga (South Africa) ; The sack / Namwali Serpell (Zambia) ;
The Caine Prize African Writers' Workshop stories 2015. #Yennenga / Jemila Abdulai (Ghana) ; The road workers of Chalbi / Dalle Abraham (Kenya) ; Wahala lizard / Nkiacha Atemnkeng (Cameroon) ; Nehushtan / Diane Awerbuck (South Africa) ; Swallowing ice / Nana Nyarko Boateng (Ghana) ; Lusaka punk / Efemia Chela (Ghana/Zambia) ; The writing in the stars / Jonathan Dotse (Ghana) ; Burial / Akwaeke Emezi (Nigeria) ; The song of a goat / Pede Hollist (Sierra Leone) ; Princess Sailendra of Malindi / Kiprop Kimutai (Kenya) ; Blood match / Jonathan Mbuna (Malawi) ; Coloured rendition / Aisha Nelson (Ghana)
"The Caine Prize for African writing 2015."