Article: Speaking of - Africa - Africa; African narratives.(new books about Africa)(Book Review)

Africa is a continent made for--and of--storytellers

"Emma's War". By Deborah Scroggins. Pantheon; 389 pages; $25. To be published in Britain by HarperCollins in March 2003"Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight". By Alexandra Fuller. Random House; 368 pages; $24.95. Picador; pound sterling15.99"The Devil that Danced on the Water". By Aminatta Forna. HarperCollins; 403 pages; pound sterling17.99. To be published in America by Grove Atlantic Press in January 2003

DEBORAH SCROGGINS begins "Emma's War", a memoir of her years spent studying famine relief and radical Islam in Sudan, by recounting an ancient African myth about Man and his greedy enemy, Stomach. ...

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