This clear and concise text, focusing on Africa and Africans, helps students to develop the skills necessary for successful creative writing. The author teaches six basic skills, including: how to describe people and places, how to report news events, and how to explain how to make or do things. Strauch also illustrates to readers the ways that students can free their minds from folktales and write original stories. Creative Writing for Africans is especially significant because it helps students to look differently at life and life's experiences and, from there, to use their new perspective to write clearly and effectively.