African stories

a pocket classics hardcover anthology of stories of africa from centuries past to the present, selected by the booker prize-winning nigerian novelist ben okri. award-winning writer ben okri, author of the booker prize-winning novel the famished road, curates this one-volume overview of classic stories of africa, past and present. this collection includes stories by contemporary voices like jamal mahjoub and chimamanda ngozi adichie along with a pantheon of greats from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including chinua achebe, doris lessing, ngugi wa thiong'o, nadine gordimer, bessie head, ousmane semb ne, j. m. coetzee, and abdulrazak gurnah and many more.