The Gods Who Send Us Gifts: An Anthology of African Short Stories

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This anthology marks the 55th anniversary of the historic 1962 Makerere Conference of African Literature in Uganda bringing together post-independence African writers many of whom would go on to play major roles in defining Africa’s literary history. One of them wrote; “we were amazed that fate had entrusted us with the task of interpreting a continent to the world.” Those who gathered included the Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, JP Clark, Kofi Awoonor, Frances Ademola, Cameron Doudu, Lewis Nkosi, Dennis Brutus, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Bloke Modisane, the African American writer Langton Hughes et al. Fifty-five years on, many have joined the ancestors but there are a few survivors who will attend the launch of this Anthology at SOAS in London on 28th October 2017.

Key Selling Points

• This is a historic and important Anthology featuring some of the most eloquent and gifted voices (both young and old) from Africa, capturing moments of critical cultural shift in celebration of this historic event in 1962. Forewords by Wole Soyinka and Baroness Valerie Amos.

• Stimulating and engaging reflections on the contemporary state of African writing reveal how the efforts of the earlier generation of writers inspired confidence in contemporary African writers to tell their own stories, not just in European languages but in Twi, Yoruba, Igbo, Swahili, Gikuyu and Shona amongst others.

• The collection captures the range, diversity, richness and wisdom of current writing featuring writers from Anglophone and Francophone countries and projects a positive future for African literature as part of world literature.

Additional information

Weight 0.4 kg
ISBN

978-0-9928436-9-4

Pages

256

Year Published

2017

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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The Gods Who Send Us Gifts: An Anthology of African Short Stories

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