Ebook: Safe house: explorations in creative nonfiction

I. AT HOME AND AWAY. Fugee / Hawa Jande Golakai -- Made in Nima / Kofi Akpabli -- Eating Bitter / Kevin Eze -- Safe House / Isaac Otidi Amuke -- Walking Girly in Nairobi / Mark Gevisser -- II. BEING AND BELONGING. The 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.;"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 non-fiction from across Africa. A Ghanaian 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 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. With an introductory essay by Ellah Allfrey, this anthology gathers new stories of contemporary Africa."--