Bakwa Books/Bakwa Magazine

Bakwa is publisher of literary fiction, creative nonfiction and translation. Through initiatives such as Bakwa Books, Bakwa Magazine, BakwaCast and the Bakwa Reading Series, we engage and shape publics and networks of practice through curated conceptual and collaborative print/audio, translation, and distribution projects. By foregrounding translation as a crucial part of our vision, we further interrogate hierarchies of language—through translations or the lack thereof—in our projects and engage in remapping literary translation practice by prioritising African audiences as part of efforts towards reclaiming our own stories.