Gorgeous Collector's Edition. With its powerful tradition of storytelling, the myths of the continent of Africa have survived colonialism and slavery, bringing together a rich diversity of cultures from Ethiopia to Tanzania, from the Xhosa people to the Yoruba. This collection offers tales of the gods, creation stories, trickster adventures, animal fables and stories which amuse and teach from 'The Tortoise and the Elephant', from the Akamba of Kenya, to 'Why the Moon Waxes and Wanes', from Southern Nigeria, providing an insight into the boundless and vibrant world of African myth. Flame Tree Collector's Editions present the foundations of speculative fiction, authors, myths and tales without which the imaginative literature of the twentieth century would not exist, bringing the best, most influential and most fascinating works into a striking and collectable library. Each book features a new introduction and a Glossary of Terms.

'The Mines of His Mind' contains 15 essays employing a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives on one of Africa's greatest writers.

Pain and trauma narratives are different from other narratives because they are fragments of fears and indescribable pains. Most importantly, they enhance therapeutic improvement of patients who use writing as a means of confronting their pains. Testimonies of traumatic experiences often introduce the sufferers and witnesses of such pain, to the heroic, harrowing and shameful sides of existence. Also because of the increase in stress, trauma and death; and because of the limitations of science and technology in the fight against disease and death, many writers across the globe have used their works of arts to focus on scientific endeavours at arresting illness and trauma, the moral choices in the treatment of sick people and the failure of human compassion that more often than not accompany humankind's increasingly reliance on technological care. It is the hope of this doctoral research into the world literature and healing, THE WORD IN THE WARD, that humankind would evolve a means of better comprehending the language and agony of people suffering from disease as this will help the healing process in no small measure.