Under African Skies Modern African Stories

Summary: "None of the stories...address the difficulty of life as a creative writer in Africa, [though] quite a few...sustain a dialogue, oblique or direct, on censorship and repression....[T]he volume also contains a generous sampling of work that demands...to be read as literature before it is read as anything else: writing, in other words, that transcends the particulars of its place and time..."