These ten stories, emerging from Rwanda, Kenya, Somaliland, Somalia and Ethiopia, highlight new African voices that share bold combinations of openness and curiosity, nuance and bravery. From fiery femme tongues, broken colonial languages and tender queer subjectivities, to the complexities of embracing and rebelling against tradition via a young girl’s battle to attain education, and a story about chronic illness, their narratives revisit old themes in radical and experimental ways. Engaging
with love and hate, crime and domestic violence, passion and myth, resilience and family, this anthology illuminates and enacts the unbound commonality of African lives in spite of exaggerated
national boundaries.