"Stickfighting Days" is the second short story by Olufemi Terry from Sierra Leonean.
[3] Terry said the story originally came into his head as "the idea of street boys in Nairobi, in rags, sniffing glue", adding: "The stickfighting element just popped into my head—there wasn't any obvious connection between the two strands, but somehow I found myself working with these two elements and the story just poured out of me".
[2] "Stickfighting Days" won the Caine Prize for African Writing on 5 July 2010.
[4] Fiammetta Rocco, the judges' chair and literary editor with The Economist, said: "Ambitious, brave and hugely imaginative, Olufemi Terry's 'Stickfighting Days' presents a heroic culture that is Homeric in its scale and conception.
The execution of this story is so tight and the presentation so cinematic, it confirms Olufemi Terry as a talent with an enormous future".