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African Ghost Short Stories

Chinelo Onwualu

First published 2024
Publisher Flame Tree Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 432
Price £20.00
ISBN 9781804177976

Data from Amazon UK as of 2024-05-03. Though listed as translated by {{A|Daniel P. Kunene}}, the chapter from Thomas Mofolo's novel Chaka uses the title from the translation by F. H. Dutton.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
10 Foreword (African Ghost Short Stories) Nuzo Onoh Essay
13 Introduction (African Ghost Short Stories) Divine Che Neba Essay
24 The Activist Christopher Mlalazi Short Story
30 Angon Nana and Abomo Nguele Annick Ndo Medjoto Short Story
34 Baby Bones Eugene Odogwu Short Story
40 The Banyan Tree Franka Zeph Short Story
48 The Beads of Ku Nisi Shawl Short Story
52 A Blanket of Roaches Makena Onjerika Short Story
57 Chaka Is Visited by the Lord of the Deep Waters Thomas Mofolo Short Fiction
61 Child of Buzo Achalugo Chioma Ilozumba Short Story
69 Come Play with Us Lucky Grace Isingizwe Short Story
77 The Complete Gentleman Amos Tutuola Short Fiction
82 The Disobedient Daughter Who Married a Skull Elphinstone Dayrell Short Story
84 Expunging Urban Legends: A Beginner's Guide to Retelling Urban Myths Amanda Ilozumba Short Fiction
93 Eyo Adimu Oluwaseyi Adebola Short Story
98 Foose and Mbumdi Desire Meha Short Story
100 Fourteen Keletso Mopai Short Story
105 Gathering of the Five Rutendo Chichaya Short Story
111 The Goatkeeper's Harvest Tobi Ogundiran Short Story
119 Goat's Feet Stanley Gazemba Short Story
126 The Ghost-Catcher M. I. Ogumefu Short Story
127 The Ghosts of the Manhole at Enem Junction Achalugo Chioma Ilozumba Short Story
134 Haunting Justice Mwenya S. Chikwa Short Story
142 The Haunting of 13 Olúwo Street Suyi Davies Okungbowa Short Story
148 How a Girl Reached the Land of the Ghosts and Came Back Alice Werner & Bruno Gutmann Short Story
150 How Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again Elphinstone Dayrell Short Story
152 How Ngunza Defied Death Alice Werner & Héli Chatelain Short Story
154 How Ra-Molo Became a Snake Minnie Martin Short Story
156 How to Get Away with Living Chisom Umeh Short Story
164 Imonina Uchechukwu Nwaka Short Story
172 The Iroko Tree M. I. Ogumefu Short Story
173 Kaikiyourou Siddi Hamadou Short Story
175 The King and the Ju Ju Tree Elphinstone Dayrell Short Story
178 Kwege and Bahati Alice Werner & M. Klamroth Short Story
179 The Kinyamkela's Bananas Alice Werner & M. Klamroth Short Story
181 Legend and Song of the Daughter and the Slave C. Kamba Simango Short Story
184 The Legend of the 37 Bats Ivana Akotowaa Ofori Short Story
194 Mamagieh Musi Seth Pie Short Story
195 Mitidi - the Snake-Man El Hadj Awal Short Story
198 Morena-Y-A-Letsatsi, or the Sun Chief Minnie Martin Short Story
201 Mount Nyanga Kay Mabasa Short Story
208 My Father's Head Okwiri Oduor Short Story
213 My First Wedding Day in the Bush of Ghosts Amos Tutuola Short Fiction
218 My Mother's Love Naomi Eselojor Short Story
226 Mykonos in Congealed Blood MaryAnn Ifeanacho Short Story
236 Myth of Dzàna Ngazok Anatole Ikuana Short Story
237 The Myth of Mnkong Moteh - The Enigma Peter Mkong Bonjio Short Story
238 Myth of the Sacred Fish, 'Mubala' Saïdou Kitikil Short Story
240 Ngoniton Nde Fru Poem
243 Of Mother's Death Makhosi Sthembi Short Story
247 Oluronbi M. I. Ogumefu Short Story
248 Origin of Ancestral Worship Brey Houzibe Short Story
250 The Origin of the Voma Cult in Bali Nyonga Edmund Sama Titanji Short Story
252 Other Planes Ebere Obua Short Story
257 Our Bones Were the Mortar Anjali Patel Short Story
260 Peeny-Wally Carol B. Duncan Short Story
266 The Person in the Metal Dilman Dila Short Story
273 Riding Hood Tariro Ndoro Short Story
281 Ryangombe and Binego Alice Werner Short Story
283 Sacred Dead B. T. Karuma Short Story
288 Sasabonsam Tara Campbell Short Story
292 Siebanzhi Etienne Nguelo Short Story
294 Sisters of Witching Ephraim N. Orji Short Story
304 The Sixth Stage of Grief Hannah Onoguwe Short Story
312 A Sly Ogre is Outwitted by a Woman Florence Adongo Bull Short Story
316 Still My Vision Osahon Ize-Iyamu Short Story
324 The Story of Takane Minnie Martin Short Story
328 The Story of the Hero Makóma Mr. Fairbridge Short Story
333 Sudika-Mbambi the Invincible Alice Werner & Héli Chatelain Short Story
336 Sundown Melody Cooper Short Story
344 Swimming with Daddy Eugen Bacon Short Story
348 Three-Things Came Back Too Late Robert Hamill Nassau Short Story
350 True Yarn Michael Agugom Short Story
359 Uncle Bobo Peter K. Rothe Short Story
366 Untombi-yapansi Rev. Canon Callaway Short Story
373 Vessels and Warnings Gabrielle Emem Harry Short Story
377 Wanjiru, Sacrificed by Her Family O. B. Duane Short Story
379 Weei Nyui Fesha Mume Fua Zofoa Short Story
380 When Rain Clouds Gather Rutendo Chidzodzo Short Story
387 When Shadows Hunt Fikayomi Akeniyi Short Story
392 Who Will Clean Our Spirits When We're Gone? Tlotlo Tsamaase Short Story
401 Words Go Out and They Return Gabrielle Emem Harry Short Story
409 Why Some Bamileke Peoples Worship Skulls Menkwet Short Story
410 Why the Dead Are Respected in Maka Land Mvongo Biya Short Story
411 You Bekwele Chuku Short Story