4 Great Tales of Africa

Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa sang the loss of paradise, the colonials’ dignity and shame, the miracle and plight of the people and of the land. Since then, the history has been one of accelerating cycles of horror and dreams of renewal. Here four writers intimately connected to Africa bring us into the immediacy and myth, the daily wonder and terror, of one of the most innocent and corrupted places on the earth.