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    Walking Girly in Nairobi: Safe House Short Story Singles
    Walking Girly in Nairobi: Safe House Short Story Singles
    Walking Girly in Nairobi: Safe House Short Story Singles
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    Walking Girly in Nairobi: Safe House Short Story Singles

    By Mark Gevisser

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    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.

    This creative nonfiction single from Safe House anthology by Mark Gevisser chronicles the travails of a young gay Ugandan man living as a refugee in Kenya.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateJun 11, 2016
    ISBN9781459737938
    Walking Girly in Nairobi: Safe House Short Story Singles
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    Mark Gevisser

    Mark Gevisser is the author of the prizewinning A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream and Portraits of Power: Profiles in a Changing South Africa. He is the coeditor of Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Granta, and other publications. He is the writer of the documentary film The Man Who Drove with Mandela, which won the Teddy Documentary Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Born in Johannesburg in 1964, he now lives in France.

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      Walking Girly in Nairobi - Mark Gevisser

      A promising tradition of creative nonfiction is nascent in Africa. Fresh ways of writing African experiences are afoot. This publication signals the gestation of something enormously exciting and genuinely new.

      — Jonny Steinberg, author of A Man of Good Hope

      Not so much timely as long overdue, this collection of essays and short memoirs directs the focus inward, leaping from blade-sharp observations of contemporary life around the African continent to a striking consideration of the continent’s cultural and political future. Safe House transports the reader beyond the tired narrative of news reports through individual stories and into worlds of hidden complexities. Stimulating reading.

      — Aminatta Forna

      The stories in this anthology provide a form of connective tissue to contemporary life on the African continent in Cape Town, Nairobi, Dakar, and Kano. As a whole, it is both microscopic and panoramic, and strongly argues for an annual take of the same. As an Editor who regularly commissions nonfiction I am full of envy.

      — Billy Kahora, Editor of Kwani?

      CONTENTS

      Commonwealth Writers

      About the Editors

      Introduction

      Walking Girly in Nairobi | Mark Gevisser

      About the Authors

      COMMONWEALTH WRITERS

      Commonwealth Writers, the cultural initiative of the Commonwealth Foundation, develops and connects writers across the world. It believes that well-told stories can help people make sense of events, engage with others, and take action to bring about change. Responsive and proactive, it is committed to tackling the challenges faced by writers in different regions and working with local and international partners to identify and deliver projects. Its activities take place in Commonwealth countries, but its community is global.

      The Commonwealth Foundation is an intergovernmental development organization with an international remit and reach, uniquely situated at the interface between government and civil society.

      We would like to thank the Miles Morland Foundation for additional support, which made this anthology possible, and the team at Dundurn Press for all their hard work and enthusiasm.

      www.commonwealthwriters.org

      ABOUT THE EDITORS

      ELLAH WAKATAMA ALLFREY is a Zimbabwean-born editor and critic. Based in London, she is the former deputy editor of Granta magazine and has also held positions as senior editor at Jonathan Cape and assistant editor at Penguin. In 2015 she served as a judge for the Man Booker Prize. She is series editor of the Kwani? Manuscript Project and the editor of Africa39 (Bloomsbury, 2014), and Let’s Tell this Story Properly (Commonwealth Writers/Dundurn Press, 2015). She sits on the boards of Art for Amnesty, the Caine Prize for African Writing, Jalada Trust, and the Writers Centre Norwich and is a patron of the Etisalat Literature Prize. Her introduction to

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