WEST, CLARE (RETOLD BY) / WEST, CLARE
'Sometimes I think this search is hopeless. So much has happened since I last saw my friends. Perhaps they have died or the rebels havetaken them away. But I know I have to find Laker. I know she needsme.' In a country torn by war, it is easy to stop hoping. All Atitahas is an old photograph. She does not even know if she will recognize Laker after all these years . . . The stories in this volume of World Stories are by African writers Jackee Budesta Batanda, Jack Cope,Mandla Langa, and M. G. Vassanji.