Short story lovers can now pre-order “A Mind to Silence and Other Stories” to be published by Cassava Republic on 9 August 2022.
The new collection of short stories includes the 2021 and 2022 shortlisted AKO Caine Prize stories as well as stories from the Caine Prize workshop.
The publishers says: “We are thrilled to be publishing the Caine Prize anthology featuring the best short stories by Africans including the 2022 Caine Prize for African Writing winner, Idza Luhumyo, Nana-Ama Danquah, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, T J Benson and more”.
Those interested can pre-order now at the link: https://bit.ly/3cpmqcK
A woman who carries her fate and that of her community in her hair is beguiled by the deceptive designs of Europeans out to colonise her most prized possession. A man finds happiness in the reincarnation of a lost love. A young woman risks her life for freedom through the cultural practice of a human loan scheme.
Tales of sacrifice, love, freedom, self-discovery and loss fill the pages of this larger-than-life tapestry of stories from across Africa and its diaspora. Forged in a diversity of tempers and forms, these stories range from the epistolary to the experimental, from mysteries, noirs and political thrillers to speculative fiction and futurism, and much more. In prose that moves from visual and lyrical to gritty and visceral, these writers explore fate, memory, the fragility of love and the duplicitous nature of human interactions.
