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A Nigerian village elder watches his world collapse under the weight of British colonialism, losing everything because he cannot bend.
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Arrow of God
A priest in colonial Nigeria tries to maintain his authority and his faith as the British administration systematically dismantles the structures that gave both meaning.
No Longer at Ease
Obi Okonkwo, grandson of the Okonkwo of Things Fall Apart, comes home to Lagos from England full of ideals, takes a government job and ends up on trial for taking a bribe.
Onitsha
In 1948, twelve-year-old Fintan sails with his Italian mother from France to join the English father he has never met in Onitsha, a trading town on the Niger.
Weep Not, Child
Njoroge, a boy in colonial Kenya, is the first in his family to go to school, and dreams of education as the Mau Mau rising tears his family apart.
The Heart of the Matter
A colonial police officer in West Africa is torn between duty, pity, and faith as his attempts to do the right thing destroy everyone around him.
The Fishermen
Four brothers in 1990s Akure, Nigeria, skip school to fish in a forbidden river, and a madman's prophecy that the eldest will be killed by a fisherman sets the family on a course towards tragedy.
Death and the King's Horseman
In a Yoruba town in colonial Nigeria during the Second World War, Elesin, the king's horseman, must follow the dead king into the afterlife by ritual suicide, and the British district officer decides to stop him.
God's Bits of Wood
In 1947 and 1948 the African workers on the Dakar to Niger railway go on strike against their French employers, and the women of their towns hold the strike together.
Paradise
Yusuf, a twelve-year-old boy in East Africa early in the twentieth century, is handed over by his father to the merchant Aziz to pay a debt, and travels with his caravans into the interior.
Purple Hibiscus
Kambili, fifteen, lives a silent, ordered life in Enugu under her father, a rich, devout and violent man, until she and her brother go to stay with their aunt in Nsukka.
The Poisonwood Bible
A missionary family in the Belgian Congo watches their faith, their marriage, and their idea of Africa unravel in the jungle.
Say You're One of Them
Five stories, each seen through a child's eyes: a family in a Nairobi shack, children being trafficked across Benin, a bus journey across Nigeria during religious riots, a girl in Addis Ababa and a girl in Rwanda in 1994.