Accessible to both general and academic readers, particularly those interested in African literature, sexuality, LGBTI issues, queer and gender theory, African studies, post-colonial studies, and short-form writing;Diverse collection featuring carefully selected stories from XXX African countries;Dynamic new writing from previously unpublished authors as well as contributions by celebrated and award-winning writers;Broad range of themes, styles and content, covering many significant historical and contemporary issues in Africa;Queer Africa is the only publication of its kind produced by Africans in Africa;Second fiction collection from MaThoko’s Books, the recently established imprint of the Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action, the only LGBTI archival organisation on the continent;Queer Africa – the first collection won a Lambda Award in 2014 (US Award) for the Best Queer Anthology
Karen Martin is a writer, artist and editor. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. Through her Highveld Reading and Writing Studios she provides mentoring to other writers and teaches literary craft. Karen has initiated and developed several projects for Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA), including the award-winning Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction. Makhosazana Xaba co-edits the first edition Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction (2013) which won the 26th Lambda Literary Award for the fiction anthology category in 2014. is the author of two poetry collections: these hands (2005) and, Tongues of their Mothers (2008). Her poetry has been anthologized extensively and translated into Italian, Mandarin and Turkish. In 2014 she was nominated for the poetry category of the Mbokodo awards. Her third collection will be published shortly. She is also the author of, Running & other stories (2013), which won the SALA Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award in 2014. She is currently working at GALA on several book projects. And in 2017 she will be pursuing her PhD at Rhodes University as a Mellon Scholar.
"Rendered here is an array of interpretations of what it means to be fully human, queer and African - three categories of identity often misconstrued as mutually exclusive. The stories collected in this volume give a kaleidoscopic peek into the many ways in which Africans inhabit "queerness", giving fine grained texture to the lives and experiences of those whose humanity is routinely denied". Barbara Boswell.
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