Month: February 2018

F.T. Kola was born in South Africa and grew up in Australia, living in the UK and USA as an adult. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize. My novel is best described as a coming-of-age…

Eloghosa Osunde is a Nigerian writer and visual artist whose work revolves around mental health, sexuality and the psychology of identity and interpersonal intimacies. She is an alumna of the Farafina Creative Writing Workshop. Following the workshop, her selection of vignettes ‘Shapes’ was edited and published online by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Her short memoir ‘Don’t Let It Bury You’ has also been published…

Bryony Rheam is an author and teacher who lives in Bulawayo with her partner and their two children. She has had ten short stories published in various anthologies and, in 2009, her debut novel, This September Sun, was published. It won Best First Book at the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards in 2010, is a…

A Concubine and a Slave Set in the Ningi mountains (in what is now Bauchi State in northern Nigerian) between 1847 and 1903, A Concubine and a Slave examines the intersection between the lives of a woman who escaped the orthodoxy of the Sokoto Caliphate after becoming the ‘concubine’ to an emir and that of…