This second volume of African stories contains four stories from the collection A Man and Two Women, eight from The Habit of Loving, five from African Stories and two from a collection entitled The Story of a Non-Marrying Man and Other Stories.

          It is a marvellous collection, one which vividly evokes a continent and its people. In Doris Lessing’s own words: "Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape".