Waiting

E. C. Osondu · 2008 CE · Short Story · Nigerian · Contemporary

Children in a refugee camp take their names from the slogans on the donated T-shirts they wear. They wait for the rations truck and for the day a photographer will come and choose among them. Told in a child's plain voice, it won the Caine Prize in 2009 and was collected in Voice of America.

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