TITLE: Eyes of Darkness and Other Stories
AUTHOR: Fatima Usara Hassan-Tom
PUBLISHER: Informart, Kaduna
YEAR: 1999
PAGES: 40
PRICE: Not available
BLURB: Morbid, unblinking eyes stare at you in the dark…
As a poor girl gropes her way up the social ladder, another embarks on a whirlwind journey with a speed-crazed Flight Officer; a girls’ school is haunted by mysterious happenings linked to the ‘student’ from Afterlife; a girl engages in a horrifying, nocturnal forces which, when dawn approaches, disappear, leaving her psychologically drained and vanquished, surrendering to their awful, unsettling powers…
These are some of the themes explored in this collection of short stories by one of the most promising women writers from northern Nigeria.
THE AUTHOR: Fatima Usara Hassan-Tom was born in 1969 in Zuru, Kebbi State, Nigeria. She was educated at the Government Girls’ Secondary School, Kotorkoshi, Zamfara State, and at the University of Maiduguri from where she graduated with a B.A. degree in English Literature in 1990. She is a former deputy editor of the fortnightly Hausa magazine, Rana, and later editor of the weekly newsmagazine, Hotline. A mother of two, she is the Administrative Officer of the FOMWAN Hospital in Kaduna.
