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Dora King

About Dora King

Dora King lived in Sierra Leone and Kenya before coming to the United States to attend Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She is a poet, singer, LGBT activist and ethnographic researcher in public health and a PhD student in anthropology at Columbia University, New York City. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, literature and cinema, African culture and public health.

from Autobiography of my mother

Journal of Theology for Southern Africa (155) by Dora King

The beginning was a burning drip of fire and sandfrom a diviner’s tray:     “You will pound your womb into ash; carry your bulbs to the pyre”That vast body. That loss, that oneline from many tongues.I was wide, fleet footedFree. I swallowed the pleaopened my handsto her underneathto her colored seas     I am the […]

Secrecy and the Poetics of Witness: Mourning Fanny Ann Eddy

Journal of Theology for Southern Africa (155) by Dora King

The arts of mourning, like the masquerade and the elegy in poetry, are cultural treasures and sources of memory beyond the silence of death. How then do we mourn as queer and same gender loving Africans in the face of state-sanctioned violence and homophobia, which have led to the deaths of LGBTI Africans from Sierra […]

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From the Heart

My love

By Musa Okwonga

To Tell the Truth

By Mpiloe Zondi

A Desperate Cry for Mama Africa

By Rev. Kapya Kaoma, Th.D.

Tell me about that woman

By Rev. Kapya Kaoma, Th.D.

A Silent Cry

By Rev. Kapya Kaoma, Th.D.

from Autobiography of my mother

By Dora King

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