This book explores the history of a young festival that has revisited a long century of AfroFictional interventions: The BIGSAS Festival of African (-Diasporic) Literatures 2011-2013 in Bayreuth. AfroFiction is a Black space where fictional word-art meets photography, painting, installation, music and film. This book comprises some of the most vibrant voices of writers, musicians and artists from the African continent and its diasporas. With contributions by Ed Abbas, Anne Adams, John Akomfrah, Akala, Cristina Ali Farah, Awam Amkpa, Susan Arndt, Gabeba Baderoon, Biyi Bandele, BlaqPearl, Sabrina Brancato, Chirikure Chirikure, LaRonda Davis, Deeb, Manthia Diawara, Gina Dorcely, Philippa Ebéné, Ottmar Ette, Amy Evans, Bernadine Evaristo, Quinsy Gario/T. Martinus, Biodun Jeyifo, Philipp Khabo Köpsell, Okinba Launko, kara lynch, Lydie Moudileno, Patrice Nganang, Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, Peggy Piesche, Mariam Popal, Olumide Popoola, Jean-Luc Raharimanana, Noah Sow, Greg Tate, Lyonel Trouillot, Sabine Vadeleux, Rinaldo Walcott, Anna Weicker, Gloria Wekker, Dirk Wiemann.

Susan Arndt is Professor for English and anglophone Literatures at the University of Bayreuth. She has worked on various facetts of African and African-diasporic literatures as well postcolonial studies and writings in English. http://www.transkulturelle-anglistik.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/Arndt_Susan/index.html. Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard is a journalist, film maker and a PhD student at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies. She works on Black Diasporas in Germany respective shifts of perspective and interventions. http://www.transkulturelle-anglistik.uni-bayreuth.de/en/team/Ofuatey-Alazard_Nadja/