Black Inc. is delighted to announce the first contributors to Growing Up African in Australia, edited by award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke, with curatorial assistance from writers Ahmed Yussuf and Magan Magan.

This anthology brings together African-Australian writers from all the regions of Africa, and the African diaspora from the Caribbean to the Americas. Their stories are diverse, engrossing, hopeful and heartfelt.

This timely book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of black diaspora experiences in Australia, Clarke says. ‘The pieces range from learning to kick a football in a suburban schoolyard to dreading a visit to the hairdresser; from discovering a grandfather’s poetry to meeting Nelson Mandela in a local church. Here are tales of house-hopping across the suburbs, of facing racism and discrimination, of being too black and not being black enough. It’s my hope that these narratives, told with passion, power and poise, will assist in dispelling some of the stereotypes and misconceptions that exist about black migrants to Australia.’

Growing Up African in Australia will be in stores on Tuesday, 2 April 2019.

Contributors

• Adut Wol Akec

• Ahmed Yussuf

• Candy Bowers

• Carly Findlay

• Cath Moore

• Daniel Haile-Michael

• Effie Nkrumah

• Faustina Agolley

• Grace Williams

• Guido Melo

• Hope Mathumbu

• Imam Nur Warsame

• Iman Sissay

• Inez Trambas

• Kamara Gray

• Keenan MacWilliam

• Khalid Warsame

• Kirsty Marillier

• Lauren Mullings

• Magan Magan

• Manal Younus

• Muma Doesa

• Nasra Hersi

• Nyadol Nyuon

• Rafeif Ismail

• Santilla Chingaipe

• Sara El Sayed

• Sefakor Aku Zikpi

• Shona Kambarami

• Sophia Kiogora

• Suban Nur Cooley

• Tariro Mavondo

• Tinashe Pwiti

• Vulindlela Mkwananzi