african fiction

An English boy raised by a community of apes in the jungles of Africa encounters other human beings for the first time.

Kehinde and her husband, Albert, had always intended to return to Nigeria but when the opportunity arises she realizes she is reluctant to leave London and the independence she has enjoyed there. Albert, longing for the status he will enjoy in Nigeria, is determined to go back and thinks it is his wife's duty to obey him.

A collection of twenty-six short stories written by a variety of African authors during the last half of the twentieth century in English, Portuguese, and French, arranged according to the date of first publication.