We are excited to share some of our titles. Below is some of what we’ve been working on.
Our Daughter, Who Art In America
Two years ago, we embarked on a journey to discover Africa’s most promising writers. Our debut Anthology of African writing was incredibly successful, winning multiple awards. This reassured us that there was in fact an audience for Africa’s voices. It spurred us on to discover more obscure writers and provide a platform for voices who otherwise never would’ve been traditionally published. This year we received 564 submissions from 23 countries.
In this year’s collection, we sought stories that explored the human condition, particularly stories that advocated for traditionally underrepresented voices. Within these pages, you will find an exploration of the human experience, woven through the threads of emotion, discovery, and introspection. Each story is a testament to the power of storytelling, offering a glimpse into the lives of intriguing characters and the worlds they inhabit.
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Old Love Skin: Voices From Contemporary Africa
This highly imaginative and inventive collection of poems by fifty-two African poets writing from thirty countries across the continent, offers powerful poems that do not flinch from exploring experiences, hopes, aspirations that are deeply personal yet collective, the collection blurs the lines between the individual and collective voice in ways that are ironic, sad, humorous, light hearted, pessimistic, compassionate. Here poets subvert language, images and form to make them tell their stories, as well as being reflective of their past, present and future. Here poets remind us that human emotion(s) can be and are beautiful, the journey of self-discovery is as painful as it is cathartic.
“A wealth of poems that offers penetrating glimpses into the wide range of African experiences.” – A Kirkus Starred Review
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Send Her Back
In Send Her Back and Other Stories, Munashe Kaseke offers an awfully intimate, fresh telling of the immigrant black woman experience in the United States, equally awash with a myriad of challenges as well as the joys of exploring a new world. With sumptuous candor, her complicated, and often tangled, female Zimbabwean protagonists navigate issues of identity, microaggressions, and sexism in vibrant and indelible settings, and at times a tense US political climate. Yet again, these are not only stories of overcoming, they’re also marked by characters who’ve risen to the top of their professional fields, seized the American dream, and who travel the world in glee. Kaseke peels back on the inner wranglings of characters caught between two worlds be it by stories of dating outside one’s culture and race or failing to assimilate upon returning home after spending time abroad. Uncanny. Hilarious. Witty. Gripping. Send Her Back and Other Stories dazzles, leaving you newly awakened to the world we live in.
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The Newlyweds’ Window
Who are Africa’s most promising emerging short story writers? Mukana Press sought to answer this question by scouting the continent for largely undiscovered talent. The result? This collection!
Africa’s stories have largely been relegated to themes of poverty, and war; yet there is so much more brilliance, texture, and layers to our stories. This collection seeks to provide a platform for the rest of the world to become acquainted with the excellence of talent outside of the mainstream, as well as tell our stories from fresh vantage points.
A young woman creates an alternative identity on social media in Nigeria, a little girl discovers hidden photographs of the father she never met, a serial killer stalks his victims, a woman watches the evolution of a newlywed couple’s relationship through their window in Zanzibar. The stories in this collection are eclectic, breathtaking, and illuminate readers to an Africa that has largely been left untold.