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Short Story Day Africa presents its annual anthology. The stories explore true and alternative African culture through a competition on the theme of Water. This is the third in the SSDA collection of anthologies, which aim to break the one-dimensional view of African storytelling and fiction writing.
Short Story Day Africa brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers, and school children from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop, and discuss stories.
Rachel Zadok is the author of two novels: Gem Squash Tokoloshe (2005) and Sister-Sister (2013).
Nick Mulgrew is a freelance editor and a columnist for the Sunday Times, South Africa.
Introduction 7
A Fierce Symmetry
Alex Latimer (south africa) 11
The Lake Retba Murder (Le meurtre au Lac Rose)
Efemia Chela (Ghana/Zambia) 21
Mama Boi
Alexis Teyie (Kenya) 31
Oasis
Louis Greenberg (South Africa) 43
And Then We Disappeared into Some Guy’s Car
Siyanda Mohutsiwa (Botswana) 57
Water No Get Enemy
Fred Khumalo (South Africa) 71
Ink
Mark Winkler (South Africa) 83
Love Like Blue
Wairimu Muriithi (Kenya) 97
Native Mayonnaise
Thabo Jijana (South Africa) 111
Urgency
Mark Mngomezulu (Swaziland) 125
Finding Mermaids
Chido Muchemwa (Zimbabwe) 135
Beetroot Salad
Donald Molosi (Botswana) 147
This Land Is Mine
Wesley Macheso (Malawi) 157
The Tale of the Three Water Carriers
Pede Hollist (Sierra Leone) 167
The Worme Bridge
Cat Hellisen (South Africa) 181
Nyar Nam (Daughter of the Lake)
Florence Onyango (Kenya) 193
Were
Louis Ogbere (Nigeria) 203
Mother’s Love
Dayo Ntwari (Rwanda) 217
How We Look Now
Christine Coates (South Africa) 233
Traces
Megan Ross (South Africa) 241
Inyang
Mary Okon Ononokpono (Nigeria/United Kingdom) 251
Biographies 267 / Acknowledgements 270