Issa Shivji is a Tanzanian author and academic who writes under the pen name Issa Bin Mariam. He is one of Africa’s leading experts on law and development issues. Born in 1946, Shivji has devoted most of his life to addressing issues on the exploitation of Tanzanians through both the national and the international economic […]
Debra Yatim was born in Aceh (Nov 06, 1954), and currently lives in Jakarta. She is an activist, journalist, columnist, filmmaker, and founder of at least three NGOs in Indonesia. Debra has published four poetry collections. She writes a column for a women’s magazine, and is currently working on a cycle of one-woman plays on […]
Brother Anthony of Taizé was born in Cornwall (U.K.) in 1942, He studied European literature for 9 years at the University of Oxford. A member of the Community of Taizé since 1969, he has been living in Korea since 1980. He is now an Emeritus Professor of Sogang University (Seoul) and a Chair-Professor at Dankook […]
Kim Seung Hee (b. 1952), is a celebrated Korean poet. Her career began in 1973. In addition to ten volumes of poetry she has published two volumes of fiction. She is widely admired as a feminist surrealist and has received several major awards. Her volume Pots Bobbing was published in English as Walking on a […]
Roy Hasan was born in Hadera in 1983, a Mizrachi, lower-class development town. He was a cook during his military service and in civilian life afterwards. His work was not intended from the outset as a rebellion against the elitist Ashkenazi, left wing political and literary establishment, but recognised as such by the media, such […]
Tọ́lá Ọ̀ṣunnúgà teaches at SOAS, University of London. His research interests lie in African language media, Yoruba written poetry, folklore, stylistics, translation and interpreting. In recent years, he has focused on language and style of the Yoruba newspaper. He has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines of African languages and literature. His publications […]
Taiwo Olunlade is a Professor of Yoruba studies in the Department of African Languages, Literature, and Communication, Lagos State University, Nigeria. His works include Ewì Ìgbàlódé, an anthology of Yoruba poems, which reflects his innovative teaching methods and techniques of writing. Taiwo Olunlade is an internationally celebrated poet.
Giselle Caputo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1986, but has lived in Asunción, Paraguay since she was five years old. She has published the books Batel (Felicita Ñembytense Cartonera, 2008) and 17 (El Guajhú Ediciones, 2016). Caputo is a founding editor of the Paraguayan literary magazine El Guajhú, and has collaborated with the […]
Cabdiqadir Cabdirahman also known as Cabdiqadir Qalinle is a unique poetic voice and part of a new school of contemporary Somali poetry. Currently based in Hargeysa, Somaliland; he hails from Baalidhaye a town in the Somali Region of Ethiopia and was educated in Burco. He holds a Degree in Civil Engineering from Cammuud University in […]
Elmi is a writer, director, facilitator and translator based in the North-West. He writes poetry, short fiction and for the stage. His poetry has been received in venues across the country from the Power House Library in Mosside to The British Library in London. His writing is published in Scarf Magazine – of which he […]