AFRICAN STORIES-BEN OKRI

A Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of stories of Africa from centuries past to the present, selected by the Booker Prize–winning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri.

Award‑winning writer Ben Okri, author of the Booker Prize‑winning novel *The Famished Road*, curates this one‑volume overview of classic African stories, past and present. The collection includes works by contemporary voices such as Jamal Mahjoub and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, alongside a pantheon of greats from the twentieth and twenty‑first centuries, including Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Ousmane Sembène, J. M. Coetzee, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and many more.