In Edible Bones, Nigerian-born award winning author, Unoma Azuah skillfully captures a dramatic and revealing picture of a complicated African immigrant s life in America. Kaito works as a security guard at the American Embassy in Lagos. He deals with hundreds of hopeful Nigerian visa applicants, daily. Barely a third of the crowds, who line up outside of the embassy before dawn each day, will actually be called to the service desk, and of those, most are told, Denied! Kaito, however, gets lucky; his application for a visitor s visa is approved. He departs for the US, eager to fulfill the American dream of his media-driven imagination, where every house is a castle and every American life replete with luxurious cars, designer clothes, and widescreen TVs. Edible Bones follows his journey as an undocumented African immigrant in an unwelcoming American urban square and chronicles the distance between his grand expectations and his ensuing formidable fate.

Edible Bones

Literature & Fiction

Unoma Azuah

United States

Demarche Publishing LLC

"This Nigerian collection of testimonies and autobiographical vignettes should be compulsory reading for Nigerian Government officials who drafted the "Jail the Gays" Bill in 2014 and, for that matter, any African citizen who still believes that homosexuality is unAfrican, an illness to be cured, or a moral aberration harking back to Sodom and Gomorrah. These stories span the arduous lives of contemporary LGBT Nigerians at home and in diaspora, both men and women, all courageous narrators who attempt to put a name on their attraction, consulting dictionaries, Internet sites, social media networks, and to place their outing moment in all-girl schools, Universities, Churches, nighttime trading haunts. While the stories boldly sketch the kama sutra of same-sex desire and love in West Africa, lined with the dark specter of AIDS and prostitution, they also draw us into a web of online friendships while a beneficent God amiably eavesdrops on his dissident flock."

Blessed Body

Cooking Pot Publishing

<p>Among the first of its kind, this book is composed of works by writers from different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, including first and second generation Africans in the diaspora. With this anthology, the editors seek to challenge and engage individuals and institutions that consider homosexuality immoral. In many African countries, homosexuals are subject to corporal punishment, imprisonment, or even death, simply because of their sexual orientation. These hateful acts are further galvanized by such slogans as "to be homosexual is un-African." The writers within these pages reject this notion and all acts of aggression against members of LGBTQ communities in Africa.</p>

Walking the Tightrope: Poetry and Prose by LGBTQ Writers from Africa

Zethu Matebeni

Carolyn Parsons

Tsepho-Jamillah Moyo

Aisha Sidibe

Kagure Mugo

Kevin Mwachiro

Awuor Onyago

Florence Khaxas

Chekwube Danladi

Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etagene

Barbara Adair

Thandeku Bhengu

Carlton Carr

Ayanda Mkhize

Genre Fiction

Tincture

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