Tell Me Friends

Edited by Lilian Osaki and Lisa María B. Noudéhou. The third volume of Tell Me, Friends collects stories and plays written by students and staff at the University of Dar es Salaam between 2006 and 2008. The stories in the collection are Our Man by Saida Yahya-Othman, The Window Seat by Benjamin Branoff, The Concealed Project by Zuhura Badru, The Total Crisis by Simon Mlundi, and Testimony by Emmanuel Lema. The plays are The Monster by Anna Chikoti, Love is by Kimberly McLeod, A Tanzanian Rooftop by Benjamin Branoff, Judges on Trial by Frowin Paul Nyoni, The Route to Success by Yunus Ng’umbi, and The Mop by Vincensia Shule. The collection depicts social, economic, and political factors that condition and shape contemporary Tanzanian society. Lilian Osaki is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature at UDSM (PhD Florida). Lisa María Burgess Noudéhou is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature at UDSM (PhD UPenn). Internationally distributed by African Books Collective.