'Udaan' is a collection of 13 contemporary short stories from the continent of Africa. It includes short stories by famous story writers from different countries of Africa such as Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Nigeria, Zanzibar, Congo, Malawi, Sudan, and Egypt. These short stories are not only the literature of the continent of Africa, but they are a mirror of the historical, geographical, social, economic, and political conditions of different countries there.