Africa is a remarkably diverse continent and no single short story could hope to convey its complexity, but what can be inferred about the African environments (i.e. Nigeria and The Sudan) that feature in the two stories?

For this assignment, you are required to write a short comparative analysis of Terry’s “Stick Fighting” and Aboulea’s “Missing Out.” Both texts are short stories from contemporary African writers, but they are clearly very different; indeed, it might be argued that the only thing that links the two stories is that they emerged from the same continent. Africa is a remarkably diverse continent and no single short story could hope to convey its complexity, but what can be inferred about the African environments (i.e. Nigeria and The Sudan) that feature in the two stories?