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Under African skies
Under African skies: modern African stories
edited, and with an introduction by Charles R. Larson
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.
ISBN: 0374211787   LCC: PL8011   Edition: (dust jacket)

Notes:

The complete gentleman / Amos Tutuola -- The eyes of the statue /
Camara Laye -- Sarzan / Birago Diop -- Black girl / Sembene Ousmane
-- Papa, snake & I / Luis Bernardo Honwana -- A meeting in the dark /
Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- A handful of dates / Tayeb Salih -- Mrs. Plum /
Es'kia Mphahlele -- Tekayo / Grace Ogot -- Two sisters / Ama Ata
Aidoo -- Girls at war / Chinua Achebe -- The prisoner who wore
glasses / Bessie Head -- In the hospital / Similih M. Cordor -- The
true martyr is me / Rene Philombe -- Innocent terror / Tijan M.
Sallah -- Africa kills her sun / Ken Saro-Wiwa -- Afrika road / Don
Mattera -- Why don't you carve other animals / Yvonne Vera -- The
magician and the girl / Veronique Tadjo -- A prayer from the living /
Ben Okri -- Effortless tears / Alexander Kanengoni -- Give me a
chance / Mzamane Nhlapo -- Taken / Steve Chimombo -- I'm not talking
about that, now / Sindiwe Magona -- My father, the Englishman, and I
/ Nuruddin Farah -- A gathering of bald men / Mandla Langa

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LCC Number: PL8011

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: xix, 315 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition Info: (dust jacket)

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•  University of Oregon (last modified on 07/05/2008)
•  North Carolina (Western) Database (last modified on 12/24/2007)
•  Carleton College (Northfield, MN) (last modified on 12/11/2007)
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•  Library of Congress (last modified on 11/14/2007)
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•  Western Washington University (last modified on 09/03/2007)
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•  North Carolina (Coastal) Database (last modified on 11/27/2004)
•  University of Wisconsin--Parkside (last modified on 10/09/2004)

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