But things were about to change for this girl. Oh yes. When things are meant to be, they will. The world always turns and the candle always burns. And Chidera was about to learn that one can get the very things one yearns." From the Introduction of The Girl with the Magic Hands Worldreader proudly presents this ebook in a new series of children's and young adult books from Sub-Saharan Africa. Worldreader is a non-profit organization committed to delivering digital books to children and families in the developing world using e-book technology. By purchasing this book you directly contribute to this effort by helping fund school literacy programs, and promote the writing and publication of great books from local authors everywhere.

    Read the truth, as revealed to you by the words of a modern day descendent. In an ancient world, Mankind discovers that we are not alone.."A sheltered one, an ancient prophecy, and the discovery of a well kept secret.."

     This latest collection brings together a sampling of the variety and power of African writing from Northeastern and Eastern Africa. A rigorous and informed selection has ensured that it combines the confidence of the classics with the freshness that contemporary writers bring to their craft. This collection is a grainstore of memories that seek to entertain, provoke and educate. The themes are as wide ranging as the authors’ backgrounds but they share a common belief: a concern for justice. Worldreader presents this e-book in a new series showcasing fiction from Sub-Saharan Africa. Are you a worldreader? Read more about this not-for-profit social enterprise at worldreader.org.

    Civil wars, evictions, vacations, feasts and romances – the stories we bring to our tables that bring us together and tear us apart.Includes:- The winning story, "My Father's Head", by Okwiri Oduor, now featured on the Caine Prize 2014 shortlist.- 'Chicken' by Efemia Chela, also featured on the Caine Prize 2014 shortlist. - Foreword by internationally acclaimed author Rachel Zadok

    Another faces up to tough choices in the wake of a military coup... A heroine from history lights the path for a modern girl on the road to Jenwi... A picture on a wall tells its own poignant story of sacrifice... A former cultist must confront an unspoken secret in his family...From Nigeria to the Diaspora, joy, sadness, anxieties and triumphs fill the canvas with lush, vivid colours. Themes of loss and longing, past and present, home and away, mysticism and modernity, trauma and healing, truth and lies, masculinity and a woman’s place – all are deftly explored in this mesmerising, sometimes devastating collection of short stories.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *"These stories announce a strong, distinctive voice, powered in equal measure by love and rage. They offer perspectives on life in all its messy multiplicity, mythical and real. Molara Wood writes with admirable sensitivity; her characters are a healthy mixture of the self-aware, the compassionate, the innocent, and the worldly-wise; and the variety itself is proof of a mastery of complex emotions. I read these stories with a genuine sense of gratitude." - AKIN ADESOKAN, Author of Roots in the Sky."In this stunning collection, colourful characters speak triumphantly of the enigma and beauty that is Africa. Indigo is a lovely metaphor for the collage of stories lovingly spun together. The tapestry is beautiful, warm, and comforting. These are stories rendered in a griot’s voice, just as the storytellers of old would have told them." - IKHIDE IKHELOA, Writer and Critic. "In Indigo is sedulous craft and daring that sets Molara Wood apart in the genre of short stories. Indigo is a first collection that never reads like one. It is, at once, all-efflorescence and all-flourish." - TADE IPADEOLA, author of The Sahara Testaments.

    But, after only a few years of dedicated service, he is confronted by a devastating disease that stigmatises and destroys without mercy. He weeps in silence for his friend Babio and lives in perpetual shock over Adam and Akuvi, two companions who forgot one basic principle of staying alive in risky times. So daring is the invading virus that not even Cudjo himself, the passionate campaigner, is spared. Now what will happen to him and Arabe, his fiancée, when no cure has been found for this bloody ailment? Blood Invasion is an unforgettable tale, the disturbing saga of a deadly disease that puts family, friendship, and love on trial . . . a powerful reminder that living must be done more carefully. Worldreader presents this e-book in a new series showcasing fiction from Sub-Saharan Africa. Are you a worldreader? Read more about this not-for-profit social enterprise at worldreader.org.

    Aggregate 14? What happened to the Ten Ones she worked hard for? And when the postings arrive and she realizes she's been sent to her third-choice school, she feels completely devastated. Where is this Eternity Senior High School, anyway? But when courage overrides frustration, Kukua packs reluctantly and arrives at Eternity, the school on the hill along the beach road. It is here that a series of surprises welcome her throughout the first term. The biggest surprise of all is Samira, the girl Kukua meets who has a bigger-than-life story. Can a baby be thrown away at birth and still manage to grow up and enter high school? Surely, first term in the senior high school is full of surprises! Worldreader presents this e-book in a new series showcasing fiction from Sub-Saharan Africa. Are you a worldreader? Read more about this not-for-profit social enterprise at worldreader.org.

    Annie Chikhwaza grew up in Holland. In struggling to come to terms with her abuse as a child, she tried to commit suicide but was dramatically converted through the ministry of Brother Andrew. She then began to minister, first to the poor and marginalized on the streets of Amsterdam and then in the volatile townships of South Africa during the height of the apartheid era.After surviving an abusive marriage and the turmoil and humiliation of divorce, she married a poor African pastor and went to Malawi to start an orphanage. Today Annie has nearly two hundred children in her care, many of whom are HIV positive, and she has built a small town called Kondanani (-Love one another-), which boasts a care facility, several children's homes, a nursery school, primary school, and farm. Kondanani is an oasis of love in a country with more than one million orphans. It has attracted the attention of the media around the world and a host of celebrities, including Madonna, who has adopted one of Kondanani's children.Annie's story, told here for the first time, shares her many terrible trials: abuse, abortion, a broken back, attempted murder, the loss of everything she had built, attempted rape, and the death of her beloved husband. Her story might have been one of bitterness and anger; instead, Annie uses each trial to point to God's love for her and for every one of His creation.

    Oom Schalk classics like “Mafeking Road”, “In the Withaak’s Shade”, “The Rooinek” and “Makapan’s Caves” are included, alongside ‘Voorkamer’ pieces like “School Concert” and “Birth Certificate”. And in famous stories like “A Boer Rip van Winkel” and “Old Transvaal Story” we hear the voice of the author musing self-ironically on the art of storytelling.Recognising Blues: Best of Herman Charles Bosman’s Humour gathers together some 30 pieces across the full extent of Bosman’s career, from schoolboy gags through to last laughs. As Bosman himself said, he was known for having a vein of humour running through his work that made him popular with his faithful readers. This collection includes well-known gems like “A Bekkersdal Marathon” and “A Visit to Shanty Town”, where his satirical irony ran at full force, through to some previously uncollected essays and reports which show him always to have been South Africa’s most genial commentator.

    He is close to giving up on life, but then King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, pays him a visit.

    The result, which is a sequel to Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope by the same author, is probably the fullest and most detailed survey of the subject to date. 'Slavery was to have a very long afterlife in South Africa, and subtly but profoundly to affect the further development of the country. The investigation of slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is therefore by no means an irrelevant exercise.'