"Since I’m remembering this, or making it up"--Kayombo Chingonyi

Nyachiro Lydia Kasese’s chapbook, Paper Dolls, is filled with scenes of smoking.

D.M. Aderibigbe’s poetry is scandalous.

I linger at the quotidian to insist that the African imagination considers livability and shareability.

Black poetries seek and create forms to imagine and render dispossession.

"This is how you love in war"--Gbenga Adesina

Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Dagoretti Corner begins as “the dust that has no place” and ends with “a glimmer train / of bioluminescence.” The…

Everything queer about me is troubled by this frame of generations.

What kind of knowledge is freedom-building, freedom-creating, freedom-pursuing, freedom-sustaining?

We now work in a condition of occupation.--Wits University Staff

I do not know if any Kenyan families save suicide notes from their queer children.

South African students: We see you. We hear you. We stand with you.

Repeatedly, these narratives try to navigate between what a queer life might be and what a Kenyan life is.

How might a cum stain on a bathroom wall theorize?

You will learn that chickens have their pride.