Contents

About the Author

Acknowledgments

by Leila Aboulela

by Chinua Achebe

A Private Experience

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

by Ama Ata Aidoo

by Doreen Baingana

Another Day at the Office

by Steve Chimombo

Inkalamu’s Place

by Nadine Gordimer

by Abdulrazak Gurnah

by Helon Habila

by Bessie Head

Effortless Tears

by Alexander Kanengoni

Cardboard Mansions

by Farida Karodia

The Lemon Orchard

by Alex La Guma

by Doris Lessing

by Es’kia Mphahlele

Who Will Stop the Dark?

by Charles Mungoshi

The Middle Door

by Grace Ogot

Under New Pastoral Management

by Tanure Ojaide

The Power of a Plate of Rice

by Ifeoma Okoye

Voice of America

by E. C. Osondu

Eighteen-Ninety-Nine

by Olive Schreiner

by Can Themba

Minutes of Glory

by Ngugi wa Thiong’o

by Zoë Wicomb