05/123 Contributors
- 05/123 Contributors
Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese writer living in Scotland. She was the first winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Leila is the author of four novels, The Kindness of Enemies; The Translator, a New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year; Minaret; and Lyrics Alley, Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. Her collection of short stories, Coloured Lights, was short-listed for the MacMillan Silver PEN Award. Leila's work has been translated into fourteen languages, broadcast on BBC Radio, and appeared in publications such as Granta, Freeman's, and The Guardian. www.leila-aboulela.com
Lillian Akampurira Aujo is a poet and fiction writer based in Kampala, Uganda. Her work has been featured online in Prairie Schooner, The Revelator Magazine, Sooo Many Stories, Bakwa Magazine, Bahati books in 'Your heart will skip a beat,' and the Jalada Afrofuture anthology. Her work also appears in print in A Memory This Size and other stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013; Femrite anthologies Summoning the Rains and Talking Tales; and a BN Publication 'A thousand voices rising.' She is the winner of the BN Poetry Award 2009 and The Jalada Prize for Literature 2015.
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is an editor and literary critic. She is the editor of the anthologies Safe House: Explorations in Creative NonFiction and Africa39 amongst others. She lives in London and is founding trustee of Jalada Africa.
ruby onyinyechi amanze is a visual artist based in New York and Philadelphia. Her drawings explore space as a malleable construct, the freedom to play as an act of revolution, and cultural hybridity as a mundane norm. amanze has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including New York, Johannesburg, Miami, Paris, London, and Lagos. In 2012, amanze was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Award in Drawing to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Queens Museum.
Kudzanai Chiurai is an internationally acclaimed young artist born in Zimbabwe. Chiurai has held numerous solo exhibitions since 2003 and has participated in various local and international exhibitions, including Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which acquired Chiurai's work for their collection. His series Conflict Resolution was included in dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel in 2012. His film Ieyza was one of the few African films to be included in the New Frontier shorts programme at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013.
I.O. Echeruo is a short story writer. He also works as an investor focused on Africa, where he spends his time on opportunities in Ghana and Nigeria. Echeruo is [End Page 232] co-founder and Managing Partner of Constant Capital, a pan-African investment firm. He is passionate about African literature and its arts. His short story Aishatu's Dinner was selected one of Eclectica Magazine's Top 13 in 2013.
Chike Frankie Edozien grew up in Lagos, Nigeria and loves traveling across Africa.
Francesca O. Ekwuyasi is a writer and photographer from Lagos, Nigeria. Her work explores themes of faith, identity, belonging and loneliness, queerness, food, and mental illness. Francesca's short fictions have been published in Winter Tangerine Review, and Brittle Paper. She earned an MA in International Development, and currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she is at work on her first novel tentatively titled A Tender Unkindess. Find more of her work on ekwuyasi.com.
Kadara Enyeasi is a self-trained fine art photographer from Lagos, Nigeria. He graduated with a BSc. in Architecture from the University of Lagos and is the director of the multidisciplinary fine art studio, STUDIO ENYEASI. He has staged several solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. In 2016, he was a finalist in the National Art Competition, and was recently featured on Nataal's "Ones to watch 2017" list. Kadara is also a curator at the African Artist's Foundation in Lagos where he works with the team to facilitate exchange and build partnerships between local and international visual artists. His work has been printed in several publications...
