Contributors

Chrissie Bowie

 

Moussibahou Mazou

Moussibahou Mazou, holds a doctorate in Development Economics. A former deputy director-general of the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), he is currently ...

Umaru Ibrahim

Umaru Ibrahim is Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, (2010-2020).

Mwalimu Johnnie MacViban

Mwalimu Johnnie MacViban is a senior journalist and news analyst who has worked with the CRTV and Cameroon Tribune. He is the winner of the ...

Wakana Shiino

Wakana SHIINO (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, ...

Christine Mbabazi Mpyangu

Christine Mbabazi MPYANGU (Ph.D.) is Lecturer of Religious Studies in the Department of Religion and Peace Studies, Makerere University, Uganda.

Njeri Rugene

Njeri Rugene is a renowned Kenyan print journalist based in Nairobi. A graduate of the University of Nairobi's School of Journalism, Njeri worked with the ...

Dimakatso Sedite

Dimakatso Sedite was born in Bloemfontein in 1969. She trained as a research psychologist and has worked in the areas of child rights, livelihoods and ...

Beaton Galafa

 

Julie Parle

Julie Parle is Honorary Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, with publications on the histories of medicine, madness, witchcraft, hysteria, hospitals, gender, emotions, ...

Vanessa Noble

Vanessa Noble is a lecturer in Historical Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She has several publications on the histories of health and healing in ...

Gambo Dori

 

Bill Guest

W.R. (Bill) Guest is a professor emeritus and senior research associate in Historical Studies on the Pietermaritzburg campus of the University of KwaZulu- Natal. A ...

Mary Kleinenberg

Mary Kleinenberg was born and educated in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). She lived in Malawi and England before settling in Pietermaritzburg in the seventies. Appalled by a ...

Christopher Merrett

Christopher Merrett was born in Britain, grew up in the West Indies and has lived in South Africa for the past four decades. His career ...

Phila Mfundo Msimang

Phila Mfundo Msimang is in the Philosophy Dept at Stellenbosch University.

Alaa Tartir

A research associate at the Centre on Conflict,Development and Peacebuilding at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, Alaa Tartir is ...

Margaret Nalova Endeley

Margaret Nalova Endeley is an Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies and Teaching in the Faculty of Education, University of Buea, Cameroon. Her passion for teaching ...

Andrea Kronstad Felde

Andrea Kronstad Felde is a PhD candidate in political science in the Department of Administration and Organisation Theory at the University of Bergen in Norway. ...

Anja Myrtveit

Anja Myrtveit is a Higher Executive Officer at Norad. She has a master’s degree in Administration and Organization Theory from the University of Bergen in ...

Evode Mukama

 

Laurent Nkusi

 

Kristin Skare Orgeret

 

Les Mitchell

Les Mitchell is a Hunterstoun Fellow of the University of Fort Hare, a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and a member of ...

Arturo Desimone

Arturo Desimone, Arubian-Argentinian writer and visual artist, was born in 1984 on the island Aruba which he inhabited until the age of 22, when he ...

mikateko e. mbambo

mikateko e. mbambo is a black feminist poet, journalist and masters of arts student at Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. This is her first ...

Albert Munyoro

Albert Munyoro was born in 1968 in Gutu, Zimbabwe. He holds a Certificate in Education (Secondary) and a BA with Education degree from Hillside Teachers ...

Sentemong Mehpah

Sentemong Mehpah (aka Epah Fonkeng) was a Departmental Policy Officer, Public Works and Government Services, Canada, Ottawa. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2018, during the ...

Mia Stokmans

Mia Stokmans is Associate Professor of Culture Studies and Digital Science at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

Kinfe Abraha Gebre-Egziabher

Kinfe Abraha Gebre-Egziabher is Director of the Department of Population Studies, Mekelle University in Ethiopia.

Thorsten Kern

Thorsten Kern, who grew up in a town near Frankfurt am Main, Germany, studied Modern History in London and Cape Town. Years of working in ...

Stephen B. Walker

Stephen B. Walker is the former Director General responsible for leading open government and open data for the Government of Canada, where he developed and ...

Mor Rubinstein

Mor Rubinstein is an open data practitioner with more than ten years of experience. She was a Community Coordinator and the Lead Researcher for Open ...

Mangaliso Buzani

Mangaliso Buzani grew up in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, and later trained as a jeweller in Tshwane. His first collection Ndisabhala Imibongo (Imbizo, 2014) written ...

Joseph Andrew Thipa

Joseph Andrew Thipa is a lecturer of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at Chancellor College, University of Malawi.

Pushpendra K. Jain

 

Innocent Butare

Innocent Butare is an agronomist and doctor of life sciences. He has extensive experience in agricultural research and natural resource management, university lecturing, international consulting, ...

Ayanda Billie

Ayanda Billie was born in 1975 in KwaNobuhle, Uitenhage, and has lived there all his life. He works as a quality inspector at Volkswagen SA ...

Christine Matama

Christine Matama is a Ugandan public health specialist and counseling psychologist, with working experience of ten years in chronic illness settings. Presently working with Joint ...

Richard Inya

Richard Inya is a Nigerian poet and short story writer. His works have been adopted for use in over eight states in Nigeria. Apart from ...

Annette Snyckers

Annette Snyckers is a visual artist and poet living in Cape Town. She studied literature (English, French and German) at the University of Pretoria and ...

Tony Voss

Tony Voss was born in Swakopmund in 1935. He was educated at St George's Grammar School, Cape Town; Rhodes University, Grahamstown; and the University of ...

Munoda Mararike

Munoda Mararike read for his Doctorate in the Department of Law and Politics at London Middlesex University. He is an Alma Mater Studiorum of the ...

Dipo Kalejaiye

DIPO KALEJAIYE, PH.D, was former Associate Professor of English at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Maryland, USA. He has served as Professor and Head ...

Kwasi Koranteng

Kwasi Koranteng has authored over twelve titles with some winning awards such as the Valco Fund Literary Award and the Ghana Book Award. Kwasi stories ...

J. Eileen

J. Eileen was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She was educated at the Beulah Heights Bible College, now Beulah Heights University, where she received ...

Elizabeth-Irene Baitie

 

Mbizo Chirasha

Mbizo Chirasha is a recipient of PEN Deutschland Exiled Writer Grant (2017) Literary Arts Projects Curator, Writer in Residence, Blogs Publisher, Arts for Human Rights/Peace ...

Patrick Mawere

 

Daud Taranhike

Daud Taranhike is a Da Vinci/Trans4m PhD Candidate with Masters' degrees in International Business Management (University of Cumbria, UK), and Leading Innovation and Change, an ...

Daniel Opande

 

Auwalu Anwar

Auwalu Anwar served as a Political Advisor to the Speaker of the House of Representatives in Nigeria 2000-2003 and was Member-Elect to the House of ...

Sally Ann Murray

Sally Ann Murray is Chair of the English Department at Stellenbosch University. She has an MA (cum laude) and a PhD from the University of ...

Maneo Mohale

MANEO MOHALE was born in 1992 in Benoni. Her work has appeared in Jalada, Prufrock, the New York Times, the Mail & Guardian, spectrum. za, ...

Melvin E. Page

Melvin E. Page is Professor of History (Emeritus), East Tennessee State University, U.S.A.

Mandhla A. Mavolwane

Mandhla A. Mavolwane is an upcoming poet known as "The Psycho Poet", who writes to inform, enlighten and educate the masses on the pressing issues ...

Olabode Adetoyi

 

Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe

Christopher 'Voice' Kudyahakudadirwe is a Zimbabwean freelance writer, poet and teacher living and working in South Africa. His first poems appeared in a magazine called ...

Jairus Omuteche

 

Helen Spence-Jones

Helen Spence-Jones is a biologist from the UK. She studies evolutionary biology, physiology, and behavioural ecology: the ways animals change in response to each other ...

Samantha Lostrom

Samantha Lostrom studied zoology and marine biology in Australia before working as a research assistant investigating meerkat, leopard, lion, African painted dog, cheetah and hyena ...

Melissa de Bruin

Melissa de Bruin is a biologist from the Netherlands. At the moment, she is doing a Master’s in Humanistic Studies in the Netherlands.

Genene Mulugeta

Genene Mulugeta is a Research Associate and Coordinator of the Sustainable Africa University Network, at the Baltic University Programme, Centre for Sustainable Development, Uppsala University, ...

Allan Kolski Horwitz

ALLAN KOLSKI HORWITZ was born in 1952 in Vryburg, South Africa but grew up in Cape Town. Between 1974 and 1985 he lived in the ...

Bongekile Joyce Mbanjwe

Bongekile Joyce Mbanjwe was born in Pietermaritzburg in 1962 and is a social worker. One of her stories was published in Botsotso 13 and five ...

Mandi Poefficient Vundla

Mandi Poefficient Vundla is a Soweto-KZN Poet, Educator, Mentor and Founder of the Poetry Zone ZA: a poetry development agency focused on improving the quality ...

Ndeyapo Nickanor

Ndeyapo Nickanor is Dean in the Faculty of Science at the University of Namibia, Windhoek.

Keith Phetlhe

Keith Phetlhe, BA, PGDE, MA, is a poet, teacher and translator. He is a Ph.D candidate in African Literature & Film Studies at Ohio University. ...

Mbongiseni Buthelezi

Mbongiseni Buthelezi holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, New York, where he also obtained a Master of Philosophy in English ...

Jacob Ngwaru

Dr. Jacob Marriote Ngwaru, attained a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Research and Literacy from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom and then ...

Gerry Sikazwe

Gerry Sikazwe, who is otherwise known as Gerald Sikazwe in formal spaces, is a Zambian poet, literary blogger and promoter. He has his works featured ...

Salvatory S. Nyanto

 

S.K. Amoo

Prof. S.K. Amoo, is Acting Director of the Justice Training Centre and lecturer at the University of Namibia.

Irikidzayi Manase

Irikidzayi Manase teaches in the Department of English at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein Campus, South Africa. His areas of research fall within ...

Itsuhiro Hazama

Itsuhiro Hazama is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Nagasaki, Japan.

Mphutlane wa Bofelo

Bofelo entered the world of sociopolitical and cultural activism in the early 1980s through the black consciousness movement in Zamdela Township in Sasolburg. He lives ...

Hubert Reijnaerts

 

Ann Nielsen

 

Rolly Lambert Fogoum

Rolly Lambert Fogoum Tameza, mostly known as Rolly Lambert Fogoum, is a professional boxer and a humanitarian. He graduated with a B.A. from the Faculty ...

Irene Fiedler

Irene Fiedler (*1942), after training as a domestic worker, as a kindergarten teacher and then as a primary school teacher, studied at Makerere University in ...

Koutchoukalo Tchassim

Koutchoukalo Tchassim est docteur en littérature africaine ; elle a notamment une maîtrise en Sciences de l'Education et est actuellement Professeur Titulaire (CAMES) à l’Université ...

Jane Linden

 

Mzee Hermann  Yokoniah Mvula

Mzee Hermann Yokoniah Mvula is a Senior lecturer in Old Testament Ethics and Applied Theology at the University of Malawi.

Klara Smits

Klara Smits is a PhD Student at Tilburg University, who specialises in Human Trafficking Trajectories from Eritrea to Libya.

Morgane Wirtz

Morgane Wirtz is a PhD Student at Tilburg University, studying Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence in Libya.

Dejo Abdulrahman

Dejo Abdulrahman is at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Usmano Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria.

Jana van Niekerk

 

Rosemund Handler

 

Natalie Railoun

 

Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega

Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega is an Associate Professor of African Literature who lectures at Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria.

Elana Bregin

Elana Bregin is a fiction writer. Her books include Survival Training for Lonely Hearts, Shiva’s Dance and The Slayer of Shadows.

Reem Abbas

Reem Abbas is a freelance Sudanese journalist, writer, researcher and communications expert with more than 10 years of experience with local and international organizations. Her ...

John Stedman

In 1993, John Stedman, a monolingual Englishman, volunteered for humanitarian work. Much to his surprise, he and his wife, Sharon, were assigned to Côte d’Ivoire, ...

Servio Gbadamosi

Poet and publisher, Servio Gbadamosi is a recipient of the 2016 Ebedi International Writers Residency fellowship where he co-wrote the chapbook, A Half-Formed Thing, with ...

Hyginus Ekwuazi

 

Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed

Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed, mni, is of the Department of Sociology, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria.

Sehlare Makgetlaneng

Sehlare Makgetlaneng is the Research Associate at the University of Limpopo, Sovenga, South Africa. He served as a Chief Research Specialist and Head of Governance ...

Nnaemeka Oruh

Nnaemeka Oruh majored in English, at the University of Port Harcourt, where he graduated as the best Graduating student of the 2002/2003 session. Oruh is ...

Henali Kuit

Henali Kuit writes short stories and poems in both English and Afrikaans. Her work has been published in New Contrast, Prufrock, Ons Klyntji, Nuwe Stories, ...

Tekletsadik Belachew

Tekletsadik Belachew Double MA (Trinity International University, Deerfield, IL, USA). Currently a PhD candidate in the History Department - History of Exegesis in Patristic concentration, ...