Brittle Paper‘s #QueerYourAfricanRead campaign is our way of showcasing African writing that humanizes queerness, and of continuing our support for queer writers in digital space. As part of this campaign, we ran a Twitter contest between October 4 and October 6. Brittle Paper followers were invited to to complete the sentence, “I read queer Afr.lit. […]
Tag Archives: queer african writing
Metamorphosis | Romeo Oriogun | Poetry
& the voice is a lost bird embedded in a boy like a word stranded between pages. He said flee from the heat wrecking your body, and you ran to a place where water running over pebbles is a whisper of wildness, where lost birds are boys hiding their heads under wings as they touch […]
Joy | Amatesiro Dore | Poetry
Joy born into sorrow Not by choice or the will of men But the love in his heart made him gay Fellow men said Joy made God sad Cos his love was male Joy goes to hell A room filled with hate For brothers loving brothers Shower him shame Heaped with hate Mangle his mind […]
Queer Moments in African Novels—The Palmwine Drinkard And the Complete Gentleman
Old-school African novels are filled with scenes where men look at women. Much less frequent are scenes where men are captivated by the bodies of other men. There is one such scene in The Palmwine Drinkard. It’s been 7 months since the Drinkard left his home. He’s spent much of that time traveling from town to […]
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