Queer Africa Reader: Discussion paper & call for abstracts.

Dear Friends

We are writing to invite you to participate in the publication of an African LGBTI / Queer Reader [The Reader] to be published by Pambazuka Press in June 2011. The Reader is being published in response to the increasing homophobia and transphobia across the continent which aims to silence the voices of African Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Intersex people. Read more

Call for Submissions: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN WOMEN’S POETRY

Across the continent as well as in the African Diaspora, African women are well
known for their word craft. Over the centuries, African women have accomplished
difficult feats using a capacity for words that is only surpassed by their
ability for physical labor. This project on Contemporary African Women’s Poetry
is looking for submission of poems written by African women from all works of
life. Read more

CALL FOR PAPERS for The Nairobi Journal of Literature

CALL FOR PAPERS for The Nairobi Journal of Literature

The Nairobi Journal of Literature is a peer reviewed journal based in the Department of Literature, University of Nairobi. The editorial team invites contributions for The Nairobi Journal of Literature in its 7th issue to be published in October 2010. Read more

Granta Interviews Billy Kahora

Ollie Brock talks to Billy Kahora Granta’s latest New Voice and author of the story ‘The Gorilla’s Apprentice’. Billy is the managing editor of Kwani Trust.

OB: When did you first become interested in writing?

BK: I was always interested but had too much reading to worry about writing my realities. I started writing in my early twenties, when everything around me started contorting in unprecedented ways. And there emerged a reality that was so unexpected across society that, for me, the only way to deal with it was through writing. And that has never really stopped.

Read the rest of the interview here.

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