On the Wide économies African Plain and Other Stories of Africa by Fordyce, Rick NEUF

A young American couple, stuck in a vehicle in a dry riverbed among the lions of the East African Amboseli Reserve, resort to desperate measures for survival, as a murder unfolds in Mombasa on the Indian Ocean with roots in the 1973 Arab OPEC oil embargo.

An American teacher, living in a small village in West Africa, contemplates his existence.

From économies dawn to dusk, a foreigner takes a solo walk through the West African city of Accra, the capital of Ghana, and into the massive, central Makola Market.

Miss Preston, teaching physics to the brightest students of her secondary school, discovers the source of their growing discontent.

Read these fictional stories, plus six others of Africa, the brightest continent.