Simone Haysom & Beatrice Lamwaka 
Then and Now 
Safe House Short Story Singles Bundle

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.



Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction,
Safe House brings together works from Africa’s contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of creative nonfiction from across Africa.



This collection of the first five singles from the
Safe House anthology gathers work from the very best of contemporary African writers. Includes:

The Life and Death of Rowan Du Preez by Simone Haysom

The Mission at Verona by Beatrice Lamwaka

The Search for Magical Mbuji by Neema Komba

Forgetting Lamido by Chike Frankie Edozien

Circa l’autore

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE, editor, critic, and broadcaster, is former deputy editor of Granta magazine, series editor for the Kwani? Manuscript Prize, and the deputy chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing. She served as a judge for the 2015 Man Booker Prize panel. She lives in London, England.