Betafo is a rural community in central Madagascar. The descensants of the community are divided between that of nobles and...

Born under British colonial rile, even as a child Chirwa was aware the the injustice she faced as an African...

A modern version of the popular Malawian folktale, 'The Orphan and the Slave.' The modern and tradtional version work alongside...

In Libreville, the capital of Gabon, the colonial past and French influence is still very much alive in the present...

First published 1905. An indispensable anthology of stories and legends from the Fang people of Gabon. It was collected by...

Selected as one of the six best non-fiction books of 1990 by the New York Times Book Review, this is...

An investigation of the unfortunate paradox that exists at the root of Gulf of Guinea politics. The government crisis that...

Seventeen short stories portraying Djiboutians from their own point of view. Drawing on the Somali/Djiboutian oral tradition the stories weave...

A satire on Ivory Coast society.

Erdman, who now works for the Peace Corps in Washington, D.C., spent two years in Nambonkaha, a northern Ivory Coast...