QUEER AFRICA 2, new stories
316pp., paperback, MaThoko's Books, Johannesburg, 2017
ISBN: 9781928215424
Introduction by Barbara Boswell.
26 stories by African writers from Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda and the USA who challenge assumptions about what it means to be queer and to be African.
Featured writers: Nick Mulgrew, Nancy Lindah Ilamwenya, Barbara Adair, Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene, Emma Paulet, Amatesiro Dore, Alexis Teyie, Thato Magano, Bishara Mohamed, Matshepo Thafeng, Michael Agugom, S Van Rooyen, Jennifer Shinta Ayebazibwe, Wilfred JeanLouis, Zukolwenkosi Zikalala, Juliet Kushaba, Alexander K Opicho, Unoma Azuah, Alistair Mackay, Rafeeat Aliyu, H W Mukami, Ola Osaze, Idza L, Olakunle Ologunro, Victor Lewis, and Jayne Bauling.
Karen Martin is a fiction writer, collage artist and professional editor. A member of the GALA board of trustees, she has initiated and developed several projects, including Balancing Act, a book and exhibition of South African LGBTI youth life stories, and Till the Time of Trial, a booklet featuring the prison letters of Simon Nkoli. She is the co-editor of Sex and Politics.
Makhosazana Xaba is the author of the poetry collections these hands and Tongues of their Mothers, and editor of Like the untouchable wind: An anthology of poems. Her collection of short stories, Running & other stories, won the 2014 SALA Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award.
Xaba and Martin co-edited Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction (2013), which won the 26th Lambda Literary Award (fiction anthology category) in 2014.