Due to political censorship, lack of a cultural policy and the increasing rate of illiteracy, African writers have not been able to reach the masses with their visionary analysis of Africa's crisis under the neo-colonial elites.This collection of 24 narrations and 5 plays from 12 countries provides a caleidoscope of African writing which reflects the present pressing problems of both urban and rural societies - the cultural disintegration of the youth; values and problems of rural traditions; loss of identity; women's suppression; the brain-washing effect of post-colonial education - to mention but a few themes.The anthology represents a wide variety of styles and forms of modern African English literature - parabel, satire, realism, oral-history or oral-literature inspired writing.Due to the economic crisis fewer readers can afford books and fewer writers are able to find publishers. Hence this collection of texts, highly suitable for broadcasting, for a medium which, across the continent, has the best potential to promote African literature.