Ama Ata Aidoo

An Anthology

African Love Stories

What an intro to this collection. Love can make you do things

Nkechi A

of the ay with llection d time- ence, as ould we em at a ot to do. Her country disturbed him. It reminded him of the first time he had held a human bone; the touching simplicity of it, the strength. Such was the landscape of Khartoum: bone-coloured sky, a purity in the desert air, bareness. A bit austere and therefore static. But he was driven by feelings, that was why he was here, that was why he had crossed boundaries and seas, and now walked through a blaze of hot air from the aeroplane steps to the terminal.

With origins that span the length and breadth of Africa, the twenty-one wordsmiths have spun us tales that are as intriguing, diverse, yet strangely linked as the continent they represent. Examined closely, we would find that the dissimilarities are neither geographic nor ethnic, even when certain authors actually thought that their characters were exhibiting specific ethnic and cultural tendencies. This is not only because emotional naivety or pain and bewilderment are universal, but also because the collection exposes a general African landscape that is uniformly bewildering in every vital aspect: social, political and economic. 

African Love Stories An Anthology

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