Nnamdi Oguike is a Nigerian writer. He was selected as The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for March 2016. His story ‘Easter in Jungle City’ won the first runner-up prize in the Africa Book Club Short Story Competition in April 2015 while ‘I’m Wearing a Wine-Red Smoking Jacket, How about You?’ was on the final list

BIO: Hawa Jande Golakai was born in Germany, but spent her lively childhood in Liberia until the 1990 civil war. She has lived and worked in several African countries.   Hawa is a medical scientist by training but now works as a writer and educator. She writes crime and speculative fiction (fantasy, jujuism, science fiction, horror).

Where the Bougainvillea Blossoms On the eve of the year 2000, members of a religious sect congregated in a mabati church in Kakamega awaiting the rapture. At the stroke of midnight, they are to climb a huge tree at the centre of the compound and jump: to be received by angels. After a few of them jump off

The Murder of Emil Coetzee On the eve of his country’s independence a plan is put in motion to make Emil Coetzee’s suicide look like a murder. However, instead of a suicide being made to look like a murder, a murder is committed and made to look like a suicide. Who would want to kill Emil Coetzee

Abdul-Malik Sibabalwe Oscar Masinyana will write a speculative novel based on his 2013 short story, ‘The House of The Apostate.’ The novel will narrate the same Muslim couple’s struggles with religious belief, and it will be set in a future Cape Town floundering from the effects of climate change. Minhaj, a banker, and Jaanaan, a

Edwige Renée Dro is a writer from Côte d’Ivoire. Also a translator and a literary activist, she is the co-founder of Abidjan Lit, a Collectif of literature lovers seeking to take over Abidjan with literature. Renée’s writings have been published in various magazines like Prufrock, Popula or This is Africa. She is currently writing a biographic novel of Marie Séry Koré,

Kọla Túbọsún is a Nigerian linguist, editor, travel writer, and scholar. His works have been published in African Writer, Aké Review, Brittle Paper, International Literary Quarterly, Jalada, Popula, Saraba Magazine, etc. In 2016, he became the first African to be given the Premio Ostana, a prize given for work in indigenous language advocacy. Tubosun is the

I was born in the town of Adi Quala on 19 October 1944. I went to various elementary and secondary schools in Eritrea and Ethiopia. In high school, I loved to read, write essays and participate in debating and oratorical contests. In 1962, I won the Ethiopian National Schools Oratorical Contest held in Addis Ababa.

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