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  • Published: 3 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781841596372
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $38.00

African Stories

  • Various Authors



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.

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 Sembène, J. M. Coetzee, and Abdulrazak Gurnah and many more.
  • Published: 3 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781841596372
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $38.00