WHITES CAN DANCE TOO, translated by Daniel Hahn

312pp, paperback, Faber & Faber, UK, (2023) 2025

ISBN: 9780571371440

First published in Portuguese in 2017 as Também Os Branços Sabem Dançar.

Hours before performing at one of Europe’s most iconic music festivals, Kalaf Epalanga is detained at the border on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant. 

'A hugely original, lyrical odyssey through space and identity. Epalanga is one of the most essential voices from that liminal space between Africa and Europe, and though this novel's flavours are specific, its themes are universal.'
Johny Pitts, author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe