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

Bio: Sarah Uheida is 22 years old Libyan poet and experimental memoirist who received her Bachelor of Arts in English Studies and Psychology from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. At the age of 13, Sarah and her family escaped the Libyan civil war and immigrated to South Africa where she is still currently residing. She was

Okwiri Oduor was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Her short story My Father’s Head won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing as well as the 2013 Short Story Day Africa’s Feast, Famine and Potluck story contest. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Her short story, Mbiu Dash, is forthcoming from Granta. Okwiri was a 2014 fellow

Kobina Ankomah-Graham is a Ghanaian lecturer, writer and DJ who is passionately curious about African arts, counterculture and digital media. A finalist in the 2008 John La Rose Memorial Short Story Competition, his opinion pieces have appeared in publications including The Guardian, while his short stories have been published in Litro and the Writers Project

Bio Howard Meh-Buh Maximus is a Cameroonian writer and scientist. His works have appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines, including The Africa Report, and Catapult. He is an Ebedi writers residency alumnus, a PhD drop out, and a staff writer for Bakwa Magazine. Synopsis Bon Blanc follows the lives of four friends in