| Description |
177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Donald Cosentino -- The oral tale / H.O. Chukwuma -- The Okiri and father tortoise -- The python and the Etebo -- A king and his seven wives -- Why the tortoise shell is cracked -- How Nza and Obu had a contest -- -- Three Tatsunyias / Neil Skinner -- Spider and the crows, the crocodiles and the lion -- The two wives, the Dodo and the big ram -- The girl, her younger brother, and the Dodo -- -- Onitsha market literature / Don Dodson -- Veronica my dauhgter / Ogali A. Ogali -- No condition is permanent / Okenwa Olisah -- The short story / Kirsten Holst Petersen -- Cyprian Ekwenzi / Anna Rutherford -- Fashion girl / Cyprian Ekwenzi -- Abioseh Nicol / Bruce King -- Love's own tears / Abioseh Nicol -- Chinua Achebe / Ian Munro -- Vengeful creditor / Chinua Achebe -- Ama Ata Aidoo / Kirsten Holst Petersen -- Two sisters / Ama Ata Aidoo -- The short story in "Presence Africaine" / A.U. Ohaegbu & E.P. Modum -- The eyes of the statue / Carmara Laye -- Trapped in Lagos / Mbella Sonne Depoko -- Gayatoso clinic / Kristen Holst Petersen -- Gyatoso clinic / Lawrence Otu Cantey -- Sembene Ousmane / Rodney Harris -- Her three days / Sembene Ousmane -- Francis Bebey / Norman Stokle -- Edda's mariage / Francis Bebey -- Notes on contributors |
| Subject |
Short stories, West African (English)
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Short stories, West African (English) |
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Short stories, West African (French) -- Translations into English.
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Short stories, West African (French) |
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Short stories, English.
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Short stories, English. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, English.
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| Subject |
Short stories, West African -- History and criticism.
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Short stories, West African. |
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Tales -- Africa, West.
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Tales. |
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West Africa. |
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Tales -- Africa, West -- History and criticism.
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Africa, West -- In literature.
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Africa, West -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Petersen, Kirsten Holst.
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Rutherford, Anna.
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| ISBN |
8788213013 paperback |
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