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FREEDOM, short stories celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
442 pp., paperback, Edinburgh, 2009. R125
A collection of short stories inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Includes stories by Nadine Gordimer from South Africa and Petina Gappah from Zimbabwe.

"This is truly a great book of Amnesty's. To harness the God-given creative talents of these wonderful writers and connect them with each Article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an inspiration." Desmond Tutu, from his foreword
TEN YEARS OF THE CAINE PRIZE FOR AFRICAN WRITING,
205 pp., hardback, Oxford, 2009. R200
A collection of the ten stories that have won the Caine Prize for African Writing since 2000.

Introduction by Ben Okri.

Includes stories by Nadine Gordimer, J.M.Coetzee, Mary Watson and Henrietta Rose-Innes from South Africa and Brian Chikwava from Zimbabwe.
Achebe (C.) GIRLS AT WAR, and other stories
109 pp., paperback, Reprint, Johannesburg, (1972) 2009. R130
A reprint of the classic collection of Chinua Achebe's short fiction, written over 20 years and drawn from literary journals and magazines.

Award-winning Nigerian writer and academic Chinua Achebe's other novels include the African Trilogy "Things Fall Apart" (1958), "No Longer At Ease" (1960) and "Arrow of God" (1964). In 2007 he was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction. He is Charles P.Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College in New York.

Published in the Penguin African Writers series.
Adichie (C.N.) THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK,
218 pp., paperback, London, 2009. R210
A collection of short stories by Nigerian-born Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She was awarded the 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for her first novel, "Purple Hibiscus". Her second novel, "Half of a Yellow Sun", won the 2007 Orange Prize.
Adjabe (N.) & Pieterse (E.) eds. AFRICAN CITIES READER,
255 pp., b/w & colour illlus., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R285
A volume published by Chimurenga and the African Centre for Cities that seeks to offer "a wide-ranging ensemble of genres, perspectives, and forms of representation that provide crucial glimpses into how African identities and spatialities are being crafted at a moment when both urban theory and policy is experiencing its worst existential crisis." from the preface.

Includes essays, fiction, poetry and photographs.

Contributions include "Blood Money: a Joburg chronicle" by Valentine Cascarino,
"Dagga, an extract" by Rustum Kozain,
"Closer Than This, extracts from an open source book for urban planners" by Karen Press,
"Terror and the City" by Ashraf Jamal,
"Three Poems" by Gabeba Baderoon,
"Of Tamarind & Cosmopolitanism" by Nuruddin Farah, and
"Planning for Chaos, urban regeneration and the struggle to formalise trolley-pushing activity in downtown Johannesburg" by Ismail Farouk.
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