Under African Skies

"We have waited for these stories. Much like the prodigious memory of the griot, Under African Skies sings out a literary genealogy of oppression, rage, honor, and triumph in a range of voices from acerbic to lyrically buoyant."—Maxine Clair

"Under African Skies gives rich testimony to the resilience of this century's African writers. Powerful, intriguing, and essentially non-Western, these stories offer an unforgettable introduction to contemporary African literature."—National Black Review

"These fictions reveal a whole new (or old) world, as complex and various as the continent from which they come. Under African Skies shows us, in close-up, the human faces of the people whose pain we watch from a distance on the evening news."—Francine Prose, Elle

"This expansive collection of modern African stories breathes with the depth, range, and variety of the continent itself."—Virginia Quarterly Review