2013-12-20

Best African fiction of 2013

theguardian.com - It's been a great year for African writing in 2013, with a clutch of new faces as well as some not-so-new ones. Here's our breakdown of the best in African literature this year:Happiness like Water by Chinelo Okparanta (Granta Books)Chinelo Okparanta's first work, Runs Girls, was published in the Exit Strategies issue of Granta magazine. Happiness like Water is her debut collection of short stories, centred on the challenges facing Nigerians at home and abroad.