All The Good Things Around Us: An Anthology of African Short Stories

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This collection edited by Ivor Agyeman-Duah is an important and timely publication that brings together bright voices comprising budding and accomplished African writers under one roof.  The collection is dynamic and engaging in covering different experiences within Africa and its Diaspora. There are stories of harrowing experiences that document human interaction that are emotionally charged and full of pain and sadness. However, there are also several life-affirming narratives throughout the collection that give hope to the possibilities of human bonding in multiple and appealing ways and bear testimony to the ultimate power of human goodness. The writers are skilled artisans who display their dexterity in the way that they deploy language and images to engage their readers’ attention and imagination.

Key Selling Points

  • An important volume of new short stories from some of the most eloquent and gifted voices from Africa, capturing these moments of critical cultural shift and existential questioning.
  • The book provides stimulating and engaging reflections on the contemporary state of African writing on identity and the limitless imaginings of our futures.
  • The collection captures the range, diversity and richness in wisdom and imaginings of current writing and projects a positive future for African writing.
  • This collection will appeal to studies on African Writing, World Literature and African Culture and History, as well as the ordinary reader.

Additional information

Weight 0.850 kg
ISBN

9780992843663

Page Count

384

Year Published

2016

Format

Paperback

Ivor Agyeman-Duah

Ivor AGYEMAN-DUAH is a development specialist and former special advisor on international development cooperation to the Ghanaian President, John Agyekum Kufuor. He is a visiting Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg and author and co-editor of, Pilgrims of the Night: Development Challenges and Opportunities in Africa, Africa – A Miner’s Canary into the Twenty-First Century – Essays on Economic Governance and An Economic History of Ghana- Half a Century of Challenges and Progress.

Agyeman-Duah serves as Chair of the Advisory Board of the Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa and is a Member of the International Advisory Board of the University of Oxford’s African Studies Centre.

He has served as visiting Research Fellow at the Exeter College of the University of Oxford and the Hutchins Institute at Harvard University. He holds graduate degrees from the London School of Economics, the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and the University of Wales.

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All The Good Things Around Us: An Anthology of African Short Stories

95.00