Dream Chasers

Safe House Short Story Singles

Msingi Sasis, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781459737969
• Topic: Literatura
• Subtopic: Ensayos literarios

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of creative nonfiction from across Africa. In this creative nonfiction single from Safe House anthology photographer Msingi Sasis traverses Nairobi at night.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

KOFI AKPABLI has twice been named CNN Multi-choice African Journalist for Arts and Culture. His travel column “Going Places” is published in the Mirror. He is the author of books including A Sense of Savannah — Tales of a Friendly Walk through Northern Ghana. A teacher of Communication Studies at Central University, he lives in Accra with his wife and children.

ISAAC OTIDI AMUKE lives and writes in Nairobi, Kenya. He was selected to participate in the 2014 Commonwealth Writers creative nonfiction workshop in Kampala, Uganda, and the 2015 Farafina Creative Writing Workshop in Lagos, Nigeria. He has written nonfiction for the literary journal Kwani? since 2012, and his literary journalism has appeared on the Commonwealth Writers website. He received the 2013 Jean Jacques Rousseau Fellowship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, and is working on a two-part memoir on student activism and life as an asylum seeker.

CHIKE FRANKIE EDOZIEN was raised in Lagos, Nigeria. An award-winning reporter, his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Times (UK), Quartz, Vibe magazine, Time Magazine, Out Traveler, the Advocate, and on various broadcast news outlets. He co-founded the AFRican magazine in 2001 to tell African stories overlooked by international media. When he is not teaching journalism at New York University, he’s travelling across Africa.

KEVIN EZE was born in Nigeria, where he began writing and learning the piano at the age of seven. He studied Literature and Philosophy at the Jesuit Faculty in the Congo and Sociology at the University of Paris XII, France. His stories have appeared in Writers, Writing on Conflict and Wars in Africa, Long Journeys, and in the magazine Actu’elle. He is the author of The Peacekeeper’s Wife (Amalion Publishing, 2015). He lives and writes in Senegal.

MARK GEVISSER is a South African writer whose books include A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream, which won the Alan Paton Award in 2007, and Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir. His work has been published in Granta, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Observer, Foreign Affairs, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and all of South Africa’s major newspapers. He has also written an award-winning documentary film, The Man Who Drove With Mandela, and worked as a heritage curator in South Africa. He co-edited the pioneering book Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa in 1994 and is currently completing a new book on the new global conversation about sexuality and gender identity.

HAWA JANDE GOLAKAI was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and spent her childhood in her homeland of Liberia, later living in several African countries when her family fled the civil war. In 2011 she published her debut novel, The Lazarus Effect, a crime thriller that was nominated for several awards. A sequel, The Score, was released in November 2015. She was nominated by the Hay Festivals as one of the thirty-nine most promising African writers under the age of forty, and an extract from ...