Neema Komba is a Tanzanian poet, writer, and researcher. She is the author of Mektildis Kapinga: A silent hero and See through the complicated. Her story Let them eat fruit cake published by Index on Censorship was nominated as one of the best original fiction in 2019 by the Stack Awards, and her flash story
Though born in Bakau, The Gambia, ML Kejera was raised in Dakar, Dammam, and Tunis. He is currently based in Illinois. His work has previously been published in Strange Horizons, adda, LARB, The Cafe Irreal, and The Nation. He was the first Gambian shortlisted for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He is the first
Lanre Otaiku was born in Lagos, where he grew up. He is writing a novel about male friendship, the sexual miseducation of two boys, and the complicated relationship between a man and his son.
Chika Oduah is a writer, poet, photographer and journalist known for her news coverage across Africa. Her reporting goes beyond the headlines to explore culture, conflict, history, spirituality, human rights and development to capture the complexities, hopes and everyday realities of Africans and people of African descent. She is an alumna of the Farafina Creative Writing Workshop led
Chido Muchemwa is a Zimbabwean writer. Her work has appeared in Lolwe, Augur, Catapult, Baltimore Review, and Bacopa Literary Review, amongst other places. She has been shortlisted twice for the Short Story Day Africa Prize and placed 2nd in the Humber Literary Review’s 2020 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest and in the 2022 Prism International Jacob
Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a Zimbabwe born writer and editor. He is a creature of archives, always quarrying deep, tracing fragments, mapping historical figures and events; and in the process making new knowledge. He has been a resident fellow at the New Museum, New York; a postdoctoral fellow at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; and Junior
Mathapelo Mofokeng is a writer from Johannesburg. In 2018 she completed an MA in scriptwriting at the London University of Goldsmiths, after being awarded the Chevening Scholarship. Her short films have screened at BFI Soul Connect, Underwire, London Shorts, and Aesthetica, among others. Her short story and essay publications include adda, Gagosian Quarterly, Popshot Quarterly, and Goldsmiths Press. Mathapelo was longlisted for the 2021 Commonwealth Writers
Ope Adedeji is a Nigerian writer. The book she will be writing on her scholarship year is called ‘The Making of Gods’. Set in Lagos, The Making of Gods, follows the life of three women who are grappling with a fast-changing world: their varying beliefs about religion and technology, and their love for one another.
Asiya Gaildon was born in Hadaaftimo, Somalia, and grew up in various American suburbs. She is a 2020-2022 Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. Asiya holds an MFA from NYU, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. Her work centers on both the Black Muslim and Somali diasporic experiences in America. Asiya is currently writing
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