E. C. Osondu

E.C. Osondu is the author of the story collection Voice of America and the novel This House Is Not for Sale. He is a winner of the Caine Prize (his winning story originally appeared in Guernica) and a Pushcart Prize, among other prizes. His fiction has appeared in Guernica, The Atlantic, AGNI, n+1, The Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s, Zyzzyva, The Threepenny Review, The New Statesman and many other places, and has been translated into over half a dozen languages.

Enacting Africa

Fiction by EC Osondu December 26, 2018

“Jambo!” my client greeted me, over-cheerfully. “Jambo!” I hailed back, slightly accentuating the pitch of my voice to match his high-octane enthusiasm.

Fiction

Gramophone

By E. C. Osondu February 2, 2015

First there was a little crackle as the pin scratched the record and then the voices would begin to sing or talk and would float into the surrounding inky darkness.