Review: The James Currey Anthology
Eugen Bacon's review of the James Currey Anthology features in Aurealis Magazine #157 (Australia) in February 2023. The Review in full here: Review by Eugen Bacon This unique anthology of everything African comes in two parts: short stories and creative essays. Editor Stephen Embleton, himself award-winning as a writer, showcases the diversity of African fiction writing and the intensity of African critical thinking. This book sings voices from the continent on matters of death, dirge, superstition, patriarchy, belonging, and more. The pertinent miscellany opens with Mbaeze Nnedimma’s darkly twisted ‘Ihekanwa’, the voice of a child on the power of fear and belief a Rubin’s blossom—young and tender, the rarest plant with its properties of healing— belief. Offering the secret of in a shoebox is N. A. Ntumy’s ‘Don’t Whisper the Secret’ that talks to sickn