Stickfighting Days
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Stickfighting Days
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"Stickfighting Days" is the second short story by Olufemi Terry from Sierra Leonean. It is the winner of the 2010 Caine Prize for African Writing. It was originally published in the pan-African magazine Chimurenga. The story follows a group of glue-sniffing boys in a dump who fight with sticks. Terry said the story originally came into his head as "the idea of street boys in Nairobi, in rags, sniffing glue", adding: "The stickfighting element just popped into my head—there wasn't any obvious con
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Short story by Olufemi Terry
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2010-07-07T03:44:55Z
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2024-09-03T07:04:49Z
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