George Makana Clark, Author at Witness

George Makana Clark

George Makana Clark’s fiction has appeared in Georgia Review, Tin House, Transition, Zoetrope: All Story, and elsewhere. A collection of his short stories, The Small Bees’ Honey, was published by White Pine Press. He was awarded an NEA fellowship and was a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing. He teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

The Hippo Hunters

By George Makana Clark

Fiction•Dismissing Africa - Vol. XXII (2009)

“The secret art of river beating has been handed down from father to son through generations of hippo hunters, or, in the absence of surviving male children, from father to daughter. In cases of infertility, the childless couple may petition the headman to allow the adoption of a surrogate, an outsider, through whom the hippo… [Read More]