From garbage dump to Middle Earth

摘要

Olufemi terry is the first Sierra Leonean to win the Caine prize for African writing since the award began in 2000. The shortlist, with writers from Kenya, Zambia and South Africa, was judged to be unusually strong, packed with narrative drive and imagination. A collected edition of the five shortlisted stories, "A Life in Full and Other Stories", is published by New Internationalist (￡8.99 or $16.95). One author takes a guard dog and a security fence, the two common defences that prosperous African citydwellers use to keep fear at bay, and turns them into a story at once terrifying and funny.