Books in the Dedalus Africa series

Rural ideals clash with big city ambition in this novel of female empowerment, which is also the first novel by a female author to be published in Cape Verde. Salustio has been awarded the PEN Galicia for lifetime achievement.

Co-Wives, Co-Widows is the first adult work of fiction from the Central African Republic to be translated into English. This is the story of Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou, the two widows of Lidou. Following their husband's sudden and unexplained death, they find themselves fighting tooth and nail for all that is important to them. A playful, bittersweet, story full of dry wit and local colour, set against a backdrop of political instability, corruption and the friction between the old and the new in Bangui in the Central African Republic.