Made in Nima: Safe House Short Story Singles
By Kofi Akpabli
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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 is writer Kofi Akpabli's family history of an Accra neighbourhood.
Kofi Akpabli
Kofi Akpabli has twice been named CNN Multi-choice African Journalist for Arts and Culture. A teacher of Communication Studies at Central University, he lives in Accra, Ghana, with his wife and children.
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Made in Nima - Kofi Akpabli
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
Made in Nima | Kofi Akpabli
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