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Slated to be published in March 2012 is Lily Mabura's short story anthology How Shall We Kill the Bishop and other Stories . The title story How Shall We Kill the Bishop  was shortlisted for the 11th Caine Prize for African Writing in 2010. I read the story but got lost along the way; however, I know of other individuals who loved the story. The challenge is now to revisit this short story and have a second reading. From the Publishers: An artist mourning for a brother who died in Bosnia, a restless young woman alerted to the possibility of life outside her tight knit community, an unemployed lawyer lingering in a Kenyan hospital - Lily Mabura's first collection of short stories deals with characters whose fates fascinates and alarm.  Set in Kenya, the USA, Namibia and the Congo, these brief, evocative tales demonstrate an acute sensitivity to the globalised trajectories which increasingly distinguished our world. One of Kenya's most promising authors, Lily M...

Lily Mabura's How Shall we Kill the Bishop  was shortlisted for the 11th Caine Prize for African Writing in 2010 . The story was first published in Wasafiri Vol. 23 No. 1, March 2008 . It is also part of the Caine Prize for African Writing anthology A Life in Full and Other Stories  published in 2010, together with Alex Smith's Soulmates . How Shall we Kill the Bishop  is a story about the lives of four priests, a bishop and a cook at a vicarage in a desolate town in Kenya. In fact the author's description of the town where the vicarage is set is similar to Andre Brink 's Praying Mantis . For instance the military base was a remnant of the colonial legacy standing amongst stunted acacia trees and withered shrubs of solanum. The stunts of sparse grass surrounding the base were too brittle for cattle to graze on - too brittle even for camels.  and it is this military that provides the  distraction from the sick dogs that would not stop howling, from t...