This book brings together the short stories from the two volumes African Heroes and Images of Africa.
African Heroes, published in 1968, contains: The Kings Beyond the Desert; The Story of the Emir of the Faithful; Mai Idris Alooma of Bornu; The Greatest Mani of Kongo; The Golden Stool of Ashanti; The Boy from the Bush; Shaka of the Amazulu; The Mountain of the Night; Kgamanyane of the Bakgatla; Lobengula of the Amandebele; Khama of the Bamangwato; The Great Tree Falls.
Images of Africa, published in 1980, contains: Images of Botswana; There Here Then Now; The Hill Behind; The Half-Person and the Scarlet Bird; Above the Whirlwind; The Coming of the New God; Out of Dark into Dark; The Finger; Out of School; Father and Son; The Order of Earth; To Deal with Witches.

Naomi Mitchison [1897-1999] was a literary phenomenon.
Tireless in her writing, unafraid and often highly unconventional in her opinions, she left an extraordinary legacy.
Her novels for adults and children - based on the classical ancient world, and on the immediately contemporary - stressed at different times her deep interest in Scottish and African societies, as well her concerns for the future.
She also wrote poetry and plays, memoirs, a war diary, book reviews, political articles, and many letters.