Ganga Kwambili has issues with the rules of the game. He flouts a cardinal rule for which he is banished to some lonely jungle without his kind of food. For days, Ganga prays to the god of hyenas to provide something, anything to quieten his rumbling bowels and give him energy to hunt for something worthwhile. But the god of hyenas has seen fit to deny Ganga anything edible. Now at the end of his banishment, Ganga has found his own calf. Will the god of hyenas let him feast in peace?

Detective Mwenda Pole is not the fastest solver of crime- by some accounts. But he gets them… he gets the bad guys pinned down to their crimes. After a tenacious but fruitless search, the only person who can lead him to the body is the on-the-run suspect. Would the tracks that bring him face to face with the shifta bandits in the Northern Frontier Province (NFD) and the lions in the plains below Mt Kenya lead him to the killer and the remnants of his victim? Or would the unsuspecting, wild...

Two friends set out on a hunt for a bride. They find only one. Who will win her heart and satisfy her father's thirst for honey beer? Find out in this unforgettable short story from Mozambique.

Lion. Hyena. Hare. Add special ingredients: Trust. Greed. Craftiness. Vengeance. Anxiety. Dread. Luck. See how they ran in this short story from Africa.

Benito looked at the empty huts. There stood his mother's hut- the biggest of them, where he spent his early years, with his parents and his two brothers. Then there was Araujo's hut, where he spent many happy hours during the first year of Araujo's marriage to Maria, and where he also spent many sad moments with Araujo, during his last days.His own bachelor's hut stood apart, for it was a noisy one, as expected of youthful existence. Time was when they were all bustling with activi...

Olê Ntutu- a Masai boy from the fringes of the Masai Mara National Reserve is admitted to the coveted Alliance High School. Months later, he is expelled for punching a bully and altering his dental formula. He can only be re-admitted if he brings his father along to school almost 300kms away. He sets off but finds that his nomadic people had moved on in search of greener pasture. This is the story of his wanderings in the Masai Mara teeming with wildlife and danger in search of his father ...

City boy- Kamwana- tells us about his visit to his grandmother on his own for the first time. His parents take him to the bus stage and he sets off for his roots and waiting grand folks. He is always hungry and thinks about it (and eats) a lot of the time. Best read aloud.

Before the collapse of the Zimbabwean economy in the early part of the first decade of the new millennium, cross border traders from Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique used to have a hard time sourcing goods from Harare for their markets back home. But then things started getting tough for Zimbabwe and the effects were keenly felt across the borders to the north and east. As hunger sharpened its fangs those who failed to reach Harare for one reason or another began to plot ways to get to the he...

Pastor X gets a donation that sends his imagination soaring. But the donor is hampered by his better half's opposition. How does the donor extricate himself from the shame of it? How does Pastor X extricate himself from his sins of ommission and commission? A gripping Christmas Story.

Crocodilo was used to dealing with small timers. When he wrested half a buck from a lion he decided to go for broke. But elephant had other ideas. Dangerous ones. A short story for animal-tales enthusiasts.

He had a perfect plan. The maize (corn) was green and sweet- just what the city people loved. Moreover the target was perfect- a telephone farmer. What could possibly go wrong? Plan A was backed by Plan B and he could swear there would be no need for Plan C. That was Ladino Ladrão of Angonia in Moçambique. Was luck also on his side? Or his short friend Toma Rápido? Which way would Judge Rigido swing?

In society, some individuals are said to have supernatural powers. One or two actually have those powers. People like Mali Chega. But very few people get to know them. And even fewer get to use them. Gregorio and Ganjamano are in this latter class. And this is their story.