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.