Ellah Wakatama Allfrey 
Safe House 
Explorations in Creative Nonfiction

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.

Tabella dei contenuti

• I: AT HOME AND AWAY


• Fugee, Hawa Jande Golakai 


• Made in Nima, Kofi Akpabli 


• Eating Bitter, Kevin Eze 


• Safe House, Isaac Amuke 


• Walking Girly in Nairobi, Mark Gevisser 


• II. BEING AND BELONGING 


• Keepers of Secrets, Elnathan John 


• A Murder in Clovelly, Bongani Kona 


• Dream Chasers: Msingi Sasis’s Nairobi Nights, Introduction by Otieno Owino 


• Border Crossings, Sarita Ranchod 


• A Woman’s Smile, Barbara Wanjala 


• III: Then and Now 


• The Life and Death of Rowan Du Preez, Simone Haysom 


• The Mission at Verona, Beatrice Lamwaka 


• The Search for Magical Mbuji, Neema Komba 


• Forgetting Lamido, Chike Frankie Edozien

Circa l’autore

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE, editor, critic, and broadcaster, is former deputy editor of Granta magazine, series editor for the Kwani? Manuscript Prize, and the deputy chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing. She served as a judge for the 2015 Man Booker Prize panel. She lives in London, England.