Black Fly is a new zine on sexual health for people of colour. My flash fiction Anna focuses on a brief encounter Afia has in meeting her newest colleague, Anna, and how at the brisk stroke of her hand Afia’s medically suppressed sexual desires are revived.

Sub-themes include: sexuality, culture, and longing.

Release date: April 2017 

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Follow the stories of five young characters who try to make sense of loss, sex and sexuality in Lizard & Other Stories. Marcelle Mateki Akita explores how topics such as broken family and romantic relationships, sexual violence and masturbation impact a young girl and woman’s development. The four short stories and one flash fiction in this collection focus on girls and women of Ghanaian and mixed heritage. Written in an imaginative and sobering style, Lizard & Other Stories will unsettle and surprise you.

Sub-themes include: power dynamics, religion, culture, migration and identity.

Release date: 18 December 2016 

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Meet the wonderful people behind making this publication possible.

Aké Arts & Book Festival is one of the most celebrated and largest literary festival in Africa which takes place in November every year in Nigeria. The festival’s flagship publication, Ake Review Journal, will publish Marcelle Mateki Akita’s story Victoria Underground alongside other African writers. The story is set on the stuffy Victoria underground platform, where workers are waiting for their next tube home. In this claustrophobic space, a woman notices someone who triggers a familiarity that she ultimately investigates.

The festival and journal this year are focusing on the theme ‘Beneath This Skin’.

Sub-themes include: identity, loss, public space and memory.

Release date: 15 November 2016

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 AFREADA is ‘Africa’s Literary Magazine’. The online literary magazine published Marcelle Mateki Akita’s short story Cassava’s Finest. A story looking a young woman’s choice to live an unconventional lifestyle, and her drive to achieving whatever she sets her mind to. The story is set in Accra and Tema in Ghana.

Sub-themes include: power, family relationships, migration, religion, independence, romance and sex.

Release date: 20 April 2016

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