Contents

pp vii-ix

Notes on Contributors

pp x-xiv

EDITORIAL ARTICLE

Desiring Africans: An Introduction

pp 1-6

ARTICLES

Visual Activism: A Look at the Documentary Born This Way

pp 7-16

African Queer, African Digital: Reflections on Zanele Muholi's Films4peace & Other Works

pp 17-37

To Revolutionary Type Love: An Interview with Kawira Mwirichia, Neo Musangi, Mal Muga, Awuor Onyango, Faith Wanjala & Wawira Njeru

pp 38-51

Liminal Spaces & Conflicts of Culture in South African Queer Films: Inxeba (The Wound)

pp 52-66

Gay, African, Middle-Class & Fabulous: Writing Queerness in New Writing from Nigeria & South Africa

pp 67-81

The City as a Metaphor of Safe Queer Experimentation in Monica Arac de Nyeko's ‘Jambula Tree’ & Beatrice Lamwaka's ‘Pillar of Love’

pp 82-95

Homosexuality & the Postcolonial Idea: Notes from Kabelo Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams

pp 96-109

A Warm, Woolly Silence: Rethinking Silence through T.O. Molefe's ‘Lower Main’ & Monica Arac de Nyeko's ‘Jambula Tree’

pp 110-122

Breaking/Voicing the Silence: Diriye Osman's Fairytales for Lost Children

pp 123-134

Reading for Ruptures: HIV & AIDS, Sexuality & Silencing in Zoë Wicomb's ‘In Search of Tommie’

pp 135-150

Queer Temporalities & Epistemologies: Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows & Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees

pp 151-164

Dilemma of an African Woman Faced with Bisexuality: A Reading of Armand Meula's Coq mâle, coq femelle

pp 165-172

FEATURED ARTICLES

pp 173-174

African Oral Literature & the Environment

pp 175-187

‘From the Street to the World of Art’: Writing Women's Liberation in Nawal El Saadawi's Zeina

pp 188-208

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

pp 209-210

Pregnancy in the Time of Ebola (Short story)

pp 211-219

Okonkwo's Revenge (Short story)

pp 220-231

Guilt (Short story)

pp 232-240

TRIBUTE

Ben Obumselu (1930–2017): Pioneer African Literary Critic

pp 241-245

REVIEWS

Ezra Chitando & Adriaan van Klinken, eds, Christianity and Controversies over Homosexuality in Contemporary Africa; and Adriaan van Klinken & Ezra Chitando, eds, Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa

pp 246-249

Chantal Zabus, Out in Africa: Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures & Cultures

pp 249-252