Queer Africa: Selected Stories

Creator / Contributor:

Makhosazana Xaba and Karen Martin

Date Created / Date Issued:

2018

Rights - Use and Reproduction:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Description:

This collection draws together twenty-five stories selected from two ground breaking anthologies published by MaThoko Books, an imprint of Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) in South Africa. The first volume, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction won the 26th Lambda Literary Award. In 2017 Queer Africa 2: New fiction added fresh material to the LGBTIQA+ literary landscape.;Stories from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Botswana, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe celebrate the diversity and fluidity of queer and African identifications and expressions.

Type:

Book

Language:

English

Topic:

Short stories, African (English) -- Minority authors| Sexual minorities -- Africa| Africa| African fiction (English)| Fiction| Short stories

Source Collection Identifier:

ISBN: 1780264631| ISBN: 9781780264639| OCLC: (OCoLC)1019991943

Source Collection Name:

Black Queer Studies Collection

Table of Contents:

Nine Piecees of Desire / Idza L | Pampers / Olakunle Ologunro | Sethunya Likes Girls Better / Wame Molefhe | Pelican Driver / Davina Owombre | Jambula Tree / Monica Arac de Nyeko | Going Home / Alistair Mackay | Staying Afloat / Unoma Azuah | Maimuna Doesn't Know / Wilfred Jean-Louis | Iyawo / Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene | Chief of the Home / Beatrice Lamwaka | Leaving Civvy Street / Annie Holmes | Pyrrhic Victory / Ola Osaze | Pub 360 / H W Mukami | Rock / Lindiewe Nkutha | This Tomorrow Was Christmas / Juliet Kushaba | The Day He Came / Amatesiro Dore | All Covered Up / Dolar Vasani | Chapter Thirteen / K. Sello Duiker | Àwúre Ìf́́ȩràn / Rafeeat Aliyu | The Bath / Wamuwi Mbao | My Dad Forgot My Name? / Victor Lewis | Chebor's Light / Nancy Lindah Ilamwenya