Mozambique had just emerged from a lengthy and punishing guerilla war. Normalcy was slowly returning and citizens were enthusiastically enjoying the first small fruits of freedom and relative security....

Olê Ntutu- a Masai boy from the fringes of the Masai Mara National Reserve is admitted to the coveted Alliance High School. Months later, he is expelled for punching a bully and altering his dental formula....

He had a perfect plan. The maize (corn) was green and sweet- just what the city people loved. Moreover the target was perfect- a telephone farmer. What could possibly go wrong? Plan A was backed by Plan...

Detective Mwenda Pole is not the fastest solver of crime- by some accounts. But he gets them… he gets the bad guys pinned down to their crimes. After a tenacious but fruitless search, the only person...

Benito looked at the empty huts. There stood his mother's hut- the biggest of them, where he spent his early years, with his parents and his two brothers. Then there was Araujo's hut, where he spent many...

City boy- Kamwana- tells us about his visit to his grandmother on his own for the first time. His parents take him to the bus stage and he sets off for his roots and waiting grand folks. He is always...

Lion. Hyena. Hare. Add special ingredients: Trust. Greed. Craftiness. Vengeance. Anxiety. Dread. Luck. See how they ran in this short story from Africa.

In society, some individuals are said to have supernatural powers. One or two actually have those powers. People like Mali Chega. But very few people get to know them. And even fewer get to use them....

Two friends set out on a hunt for a bride. They find only one. Who will win her heart and satisfy her father's thirst for honey beer? Find out in this unforgettable short story from Mozambique.

Ganga Kwambili has issues with the rules of the game. He flouts a cardinal rule for which he is banished to some lonely jungle without his kind of food. For days, Ganga prays to the god of hyenas to provide...

Kaunjika was a hawker in a rural region of the Mangala Empire. He was also a friend of animals. His lowly occupation took him through forests, across rivers and brought him face to face with wild animals,...

Crocodilo was used to dealing with small timers. When he wrested half a buck from a lion he decided to go for broke. But elephant had other ideas. Dangerous ones. A short story for animal-tales enthusiasts.

Before the collapse of the Zimbabwean economy in the early part of the first decade of the new millennium, cross border traders from Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique used to have a hard time sourcing goods...