Minutes of glory

This Story was a very strange and very hard to understand. But I think it is about people stealing other peoples minutes of Glory.

The Spiders web

It starts out with a man having a nightmare about being buried alive. It seems that there is some on going problems between the Africans and the Europeans like there forcing their belief on them and their culture and the African are resisting to their everlasting regret. This story was confusing i really did not understand what was going on.

A conversation from the third floor

The Story starts out with a woman in front of a building. It gives no description of what she is doing there but she is there for a purpose. A man appears from a window from the three story building shouting at the woman on the street. At that point we have no idea who that man is. He shouts again and again, it must be some one she knows because he is asking all kinds of questions. Later in the story we find out that the man in the window is her husband and he is in jail for reasons unknown. He exclaims that he is being transfered some where and tells her to not return to him. In the end the woman just walks a way from the building not looking back.

A Handful of dates

This is a great story about a Boy and his close and strong relationship with his grandfather.
At the very end of the story they were gathered around the date tree and were eating the freshly picked dates, The boy had been given five dates to which he did not hesitate to eat. I guess that was the first time that he had tried dates and he did not like them very much, so he ran away from the group towards the river and vomited them back up. It was like he was ashamed of doing that if front of his grandfather because he respected his grandfather so much, that he didn't want to disappoint him.

An Incident in the Ghobashi household

What was the point of this story... There is little description about what is going to happen. a Mother is sending her daughter to a better place, away from poverty and disillusion. Is it a slave market?

Bossy

In the beginning Haji receives a letter from Karim, where he inquires about the events taking place in Haji's life. Haji speaks of his friends Wire and Rashid (otherwise known as Bossy). Rashid had a dominating personality. He was talented and highly admired by Haji. He was a master of sailing, and took the lead. They venture off to this island with a bygone empire located there. Haji repulsed by the lack of sanitation, straggled slowly behind Bossy. While departing from the island, Bossy boasts his skills of swimming, and leaves Haji unattended with the sail. Haji, struggled to keep the boat at ease. He could not accommodate the waves' bipolar behavior. He cries out for Bossy, but he never finds him. He lands at Mbweni, cuts all over his weak body, and is beaten with sticks by savage-like men. They claim to have overthrown the Prime Ministe. They threatened to shoot Haji because of his Arab decent. They beat him, and urinated on his, leaving him stranded and defenseless on the beach.

The Green leaves

This story shows the some differences that two different societies. One clan has different laws than the white man, the clan can kill a man for good reason such as sleeping with another mans wife or stealing another's cattle. The white man has to have very good justification and try the thief in a court of law. The main character met his death on greed. He didn't really need the money but he went through with it and got a stick in the eye, to which killed him. The man should have stayed in his hut and not panic.