´Then a letter came for Aloo from a famous college in America. Theyoffered him a place . . . a place with a scholarship. Aloo could notbelieve it at first. He read the letter again and again.´ Aloo is very happy, but soon he finds that it is not so easy. He will need moneyto live on, money for his plane ticket . . . And then there is Mother. . . The stories in this volume of World Stories come from Malawi,South Africa, and Tanzania by African writers Steve Chimombo, FaridaKarodia, and M. G. Vassanji.