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This is a great collection of stories from across Africa. my fave stories are:Fugee by Hawa Jande Golakai Border Crossings by Sarita RanchodThe Mission at Verona by Beatrice Lamwaka This book covers a range of topics and issues in Africa today from ebola to the LGBTQI communities in various countries to Chinese Migrants and growing up in a war torn country. If you want to learn more about Africa and read some personal experiences and accounts then try this book as it is pretty eye opening especi...
I wrote this review on Instagram back when I read the book in 2016 but it still holds true and I thought I might share it here too: I really enjoyed reading different approaches, different styles and different genres: Somehow there seems to be anything from travel writing, memoir, true crime stories, reportage etc.The genius of the collection lies also in the way the essays are arranged so that some of them kind of “speak” to each other, for examples: Kofi Akpabli’s text “Made in Nima” portrayin...
I love the concept behind this anthology...a book about what life is really like in Africa. And not just written by journalists who have been to Africa, but written by people who live there and experience it on a daily basis. The anthology includes diverse subjects-- everything from surviving the Ebola virus to what it is like to be homosexual in a place where it continues to be illegal.Unfortunately, I felt that many of the stories were convoluted, and though they could have been great, it was
While essay anthologies and collections from places such as North America and Britain are common and plentiful, and part of the publishing landscape there, essays from Africa are rare indeed. It’s sometimes hard enough, in a calendar year, to find essays published in South Africa, where I live, and rarer still to come across anthologies of the genre. This collection of creative non-fiction is to be welcomed, and let’s hope there are many more to come. The reasons for the paucity of essays might
Great collection of short stories.
– You have to leave your study to write compelling nonfiction. It takes time and money. – Ellah Wakatama Allfrey - Too often writing about Africa has been at a distance, a view to a place far away. What I hoped to encourage, as we developed the pieces in this collection, was, in each instance, a personal voice that allowed the writer to become a part of the story. –Ellah Wakatama Allfrey – Being grilled about "otherness" is a train that's never late. – Hawa Jande Golakai– It's not like viruses n...
The nonfiction pieces in this collection take us around Africa, from Liberia to Kenya to Zimbabwe and South Africa and countries between. The topics are also wide ranging from the effects of immigrating, living with HIV, and watching a friend murdered. The writing is skilful, readable and compelling. This is not a book to read from cover to cover in one go. Each story should be appreciated for the flavour of the place in which it is situated - and so many of the stories are difficult topics so r...
An anthology of various African writers that focuses on lgbtq+ themes. Anthologies aren’t really my style, but I found this one interesting as the chapters portrayed very different aspects while still being kind of connected. The first story about the spread of Ebola, viewed by a Liberian scientist, really hit home as I was reading this during quarantine, but the story kind of ends in the void. Another chapter explores the Chinese immigrants in Senegal. Nowadays, the involvement of China in the
I don't typical read anthologies as I find it difficult to appreciate the art of short story writing. However, this diverse narrative of the African experience across countries, lifestyles and priorities is a welcome insight into stories seldomly told. A good introduction to the styles of these African writers and as such provides guidance on whose work to explore further.
A collection of nonfiction essays by anglophone authors from across Africa: true crime, personal narrative, social justice reporting. Skewed towards centering queer. A few standouts amidst a few weaker ones; good airplane brain food.
