Weekend Reading: Mungoshi, Aidoo, Head, Achebe, et al
What I like about writing in a specific genre is that I get to read a lot. Perhaps I write in order to read. It is like I reward myself, for finishing a short story draft, by reading someone's short story. Since I am putting together a collection set in rural and urban Zimbabwe, I have been drawn to authors who have dealt with the same issues, dichotomies, etc. So for this weekend, these are the books I have lined up: The Collector of Other Treasures & Other Botswana Village Stories by Bessie Head The Setting Sun & the Rolling World by Charles Mungoshi No Sweetness Here and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo African Short Stories , edited by Chinua Achebe and CL Innes The Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in Africa , edited by Charlotte Bruner The Henemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories edited by Chinua Achebe and C.L. Innes Since these are collections of short stories, they are easy to read at the same time, one story from this book, another from that one, an...