125 Contributors
- 125 Contributors
Alithnayn Abdulkareem is a writer and development worker, interested in how culture can build the education sector through formal and informal means. She resides in Abuja, Nigeria, and has fiction and nonfiction published by Saraba Magazine, The Kalahari Review, Africa Is A Country, The Africa Report, Afreada magazine, and has contributed to the Global Scanning Review. In October 2017, she was commissioned by Action Aid Nigeria to report on the progress of girls' education in Northern Nigeria.
Elvis Alves was born in Guyana and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of the poetry collection Bitter Melon (Mahaicony Books, 2013) and Ota Benga (Mahaicony Books, 2017). His latest book, I Am No Battlefield But A Forest Of Trees Growing, is forthcoming from the Franciscan University Press, and is the winner of the 2017 Jacopone da Todi book prize in poetry.
Akpa Arinzechukwu is a Nigerian dealing with his numerous identities. His work has been published by or featured in 2017 Best New African Poets anthology, Sou'wester, London Grip Poetry, Eastlit, ITCH, New Contrast, The Flash Fiction Press, The Rising Phoenix, Packingtown and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the Sophiamay Poetry Contest and longlisted for the Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction. He is the author of the poetry chapbook, CITY DWELLERS (Splash of Red).
Bashezo strives to create ephemeral third spaces that reflect the expansiveness and nuance of black and brown queer and trans lives and map dynamic imaginings of being and belonging. The materials zhe uses function as a means to disrupt traditional Euro-American high art aesthetics and socio-cultural normativities. They are intentionally unexceptional and the physicality of the work relies on peregrinations of sensorial experiences, movement, and ancestral reverence. Ultimately, zhe's work employs multiple mediums to explore fraught spaces and social interconnectivities.
Khytie K. Brown is a PhD candidate in the department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her research interests include religious expression and cultural production in the Caribbean and Latin America, sensory epistemologies, racialization and Afrophobia, and material culture. Khytie is also a graduate student associate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and a doctoral fellow in the Science, Religion, and Culture program at Harvard University. Currently, she's a research associate on a collaborative ethnographic team researching policing in New Orleans.
Monique-Adelle Callahan D. is an assistant professor at Emmanuel college. Her poems, translations, and visual art have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies [End Page 178] including Tupelo Quarterly, Bayou Magazine, and The Healing Muse. She has received writing fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, The Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and The Rockefeller Brother's Fund and her poetry collection, Anonymous, is forthcoming with Jacar Press.
Kudzanai Chiurai was born and lives in Harare, Zimbabwe. His work traces the trajectory of political, economic, and social conditions in his homeland from colonialism and independence to the present day. Chiurai completed a BA Fine Arts degree from the University of Pretoria (2005) and held solo exhibitions with the Goodman Gallery. Notable international exhibitions include The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited curated by Simon Njami at Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2014) and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah USA (2015).
Ethnomusicologist and musician Genevieve E. V. Dempsey is a specialist on the music of contemporary religious communities across Brazil, particularly in the African- and European-derived rituals of Congado, Candomblé, and Umbanda. To understand the interplay between questions of race, gender, and politics in musical contexts, she conducted two and a half years of archival and ethnographic field research in Brazil. Dempsey received her BA in Political Science, Economics, and Latin American Studies from the University of Notre Dame and her PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago. Dempsey is thrilled to join the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research as the Mamolen Fellow for the 2017–18 academic year.
Amatesiro Dore studied law at the Igbinedion University Okada and the Nigerian Law School. He's an alumnus of the Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop, Fellow of the Ebedi International Writers Residency, Regional Managing Editor (Nigeria) of The Theatre Times, and Programme Officer at the International...
