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Safe House
Explorations in Creative Nonfiction
Ellah Wakatama AllfreySeries: Safe House Short Story Singles(0)
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Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. A Nigerian immigrant to Senegal explores the increasing influence of China across the region, a Kenyan student activist writes of exile in Kampala, a Liberian scientist shares her diary of the Ebola crisis, a Nigerian journalist travels to the north to meet a community at risk, a Kenyan author travels to Senegal to interview a gay rights activist, and a South African writer recounts a tale of family discord and murder in a remote seaside town. 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.
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"It's that perspective and degree of specificity, as well as the quality of the writing, that make this a wonderful and refreshing collection."
Globe and Mail
"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 hidde
Aminatta Forna
"This collection of creative nonfiction is to be welcomed, and let's hope there are many more volumes to come."
The Sunday Independent