Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is the first in the Gerald Kraak Anthology series. The kaleidoscopic collection comprises the most exceptional written and photographic entries for the annual Gerald Kraak Award, which was established in 2016 by The Other Foundation and the Jacana Literary Foundation. Offering important African perspectives gathered from the continent, this inaugural edition features works of fiction, journalism, photography and poetry. The pieces are multi-layered, brave and stirring. They represent a new wave of fresh storytelling that provokes thought on the topics of gender, social justice and sexuality.

Contributors include Farah Ahamed, Poached Eggs (Fiction, Kenya), Beyers de Vos, A Place of Greater Safety (Journalism, South Africa), Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese, Midnight in Lusikisiki (Poetry, South Africa), Dilman Dila, Two Weddings for Amoit (Fiction, Uganda), Justin Dingwall, Albus (Photography, South Africa), Amatesiro Dore, For Men Who Care (Fiction, Nigeria), Tania Haberland, Resurrection (Poetry, Mauritius), Julia Hango, Intertwined Odyssey (Photography, South Africa), Dean Hutton, Dean's Bed (Photography, South Africa), Otosirieze Obi-Young, You Sing of a Longing (Fiction, Nigeria), Olakunle Ologunro, The Conversation (Fiction, Nigeria), Ayodele Sogunro, One More Nation Bound in Freedom (Academic, Nigeria), and Sarah Waiswa, Stranger in a Familiar Land (Photography, Kenya). These finalists were selected by a judging panel made up of distinguished gender activist Sisonke Msimang (chair of the panel and series editor), prominent social and political analyst Eusebius McKaiser and leading African feminist Sylvia Tamale.