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Each episode I sit down with a writer, publisher, or otherwise bookish inclined person and chat about literature, the publishing industry, writing, and books we recommend.

010: Panashe Chigumadzi

Panashe is an essayist and novelist. Her first novel, Sweet Medicine, was published in 2015 (Blackbird Books) and won the K. Sello Duiker Literary Aw...
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009: Ayesha Harruna Attah

Ayesha Harruna Attah is the writer of three novels. Her debut novel, Harmattan Rain, was shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Africa ...
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008: Safia Elhillo

Safia Elhillo is an award-winning poet who performs regularly and whose writing has been published in various journals and anthologies, the New Daugth...
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007: Zeba Talkhani

Zeba Talkhani’s memoir My Past is a Foreign Country: A Muslim Feminist Finds Herself was published at the end of June and received blurbs by writers s...
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006: Leslie Kuo

Leslie Kuo describes herself on her website as "a librarian, a designer, a translator, and both a first and second generation immigrant". Currently sh...
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005 Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma's debut novel House of Stone was published in 2018 to much acclaim. It has been awarded the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awa...
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004: Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is a former deputy editor at Granta magazine and former senior editor at Jonathan Cape, Random House. She has edited anthologie...
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003: Namwali Serpell

Namwali Serpell is an award-winning author and associate professor of English at UC Berkeley.  Her first published story, “Muzungu,” was selected for ...
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002: Musa Okwonga

Musa Okwonga is a poet, essayist, journalist, writer, and musician. His writing has appeared in several outlets. He has published two books on footbal...
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001: Sharon Dodua Otoo

Sharon Dodua Otoo describes herself as “Black British mother, activist, author and editor”. She has published two novellas in English, the things i am...
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