You can read the entire story online. It’s brutal, harrowing, and absolutely brilliant.
From the Guardian:
A “Homeric” story of life and death in a city rubbish dump has won Sierra Leone’s Olufemi Terry the Caine prize for African writing. Terry’s story, Stickfighting Days, follows a group of boys who sniff glue and fight each other with sticks in a dump.
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