# African Stories

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- Book: [African Stories](https://www.bookquiver.com/ben-okri/african-stories) ([African Stories.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ben-okri/african-stories.md))
- Authors: [Ben Okri](https://www.bookquiver.com/ben-okri)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-4159-637-2
- Pages: 560
- Published: 2025-03-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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.