Description: Gods Who Send Us Gifts : An Anthology of African Short Stories, Paperback by Agyeman-Duah, Ivor (EDT); Soyinka, Wole (FRW); Amos, Valerie (FRW), ISBN 0992843693, ISBN-13 9780992843694, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Gods Who Send Us Gifts : an Anthology of African Short Stories
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Clarke Publishing, The Limited, Ayebia
Publication Year: 2018
Topic: Short Stories (Single Author), Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Literary, African
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Author: Baroness Valerie Amos
Item Length: 7.8 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
