Gods and Soldiers
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A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature
Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking to southern Zulu-speaking writers, this collection conveys thirty different ways of approaching what it means to be African. Whether about life in the new urban melting pots of Cape Town and Luanda, or amid the battlefield chaos of Zimbabwe and Somalia, or set in the imaginary surreal landscapes born out of the oral storytelling tradition, these stories represent a striking cross section of extraordinary writing. Including works by J. M. Coetzee, Chimamanda Adichie, Nuruddin Farah, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Chinua Achebe, and edited by Rob Spillman of Tin House magazine, Gods and Soldiers features many pieces never before published, making it a vibrant and essential glimpse of Africa as it enters the twenty-first century.Acknowledgments
Introduction by Rob Spillman
Map of Africa
West Africa
Nonfiction
Chinua Achebe ♦ Nigeria
"The African Writer and the English Language"
Fiction
Helon Habila ♦ Nigeria
"Lomba"
Mohammed Naseehu Ali ♦ Ghana
"The Manhood Test"
Chris Abani ♦ Nigeria
from Becoming Abigail
E. C. Osondu ♦ Nigeria
"Voice of America"
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ♦ Nigeria
from Half of a Yelllow Sun
Francophone Africa
Nonfiction
Patrice Nganang ♦ Cameroon
"The Senghor Complex"
Fiction
Alain Mabanckou ♦Republic of Congo
from Broken Glass
Fatou Diome ♦ Senegal
from The Belly of the Atlantic
Boubacar Boris Diop ♦ Senegal
from Murambi, The Book of Bones
North Africa
Nonfiction
Laila Lalami ♦ Morocco
"The Politics of Reading"
Fiction
Nawal El Saadawi ♦ Egypt
from Woman at Point Zero
Mohamed Magani ♦ Algeria
from The Butcher’s Aesthetic
Aziz Chouaki ♦ Algeria
from The Star of Algiers
Leila Aboulela ♦ Sudan
"Souvenirs"
East Africa
Nonfiction
Binyavanga Wainaina ♦ Kenya
from Discovering Home
Fiction
Ngugi wa Thiong’o ♦ Kenya
from Wizard of the Crow
Doreen Baingana ♦ Uganda
"Christianity Killed the Cat"
Nuruddin Farah ♦ Somalia
from Knots
Abdourahman A. Waberi ♦ Djibouti
from The United States of Africa
Former Portuguese Colonies
Nonfiction
Mia Couto ♦ Mozambique
"Languages We Don’t Know We Know"
Fiction
Ondjaki ♦ Angola
"Dragonfly"
Jose Eduardo Agualusa ♦ Angola
from The Book of Chameleons
Southern Africa
Nonfiction
J. M. Coetzee ♦ South Africa
"The Memoirs of Breyten Breytenbach"
Fiction
Yvonne Vera ♦ Zimbabwe
"Dead Swimmers"
Niq Mhlongo ♦ South Africa
from Dog Eat Dog
Nadine Gordimer ♦ South Africa
"A Beneficiary"
Marlene van Niekerk ♦ South Africa
from Agaat
Zakes Mda ♦ South Africa
from Ways of Dying
Ivan Vladislavic ♦ South Africa
"The WHITES ONLY Bench"
Biographical Notes
Rob Spillman is the editor of the literary magazine Tin House, and executive editor of Tin House Books. His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Spin, the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, and many other publications, as well as in a literary blog for the Huffington Post. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.US
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