In 2015, feeling nostalgic for the tales of Anansi the Spider that I had grown up with in West Africa, I travelled to the historic centre of Zanzibar in search of folktales. Maimona Jallow Stone ...

I love short stories and have read nearly all key short story books from the rest of the southern African sub region. But, I ...

African folktales teach important lessons about using water positively for the environment. The Enchanted Drop of African ...

Emenyonu, Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA African writers have, much more than the critics, recognized the beauty and potency of the short story ... myths and ...

It's an invitation into the legacy of classic African American literature ... she began writing her stories for "Temple Folk." Bilal says that she writes short stories because she enjoys the ...