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Sarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya, France, and England. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and currently teaches literature at San Francisco State University.
Olumide Popoola’s publications include essays, poetry, the novella this is not about sadness (Unrast, 2010), the play Also by Mail (edition assemblage, 2013), the short collection breach.
Marilyn Heward Mills was born in Switzerland and brought up in Ghana. She was a practicing lawyer for over nine years and now lives in South London with her husband and two children. Cloth Girl is her first novel.
Malorie Blackman has written over 50 books, including Noughts & Crosses, Pig-Heart Boy, which was turned into a BAFTA winning serial, Hacker and Whizziwig among others.
Ayobami Adebayo’s stories have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, and one was highly commended in the 2009 Commonwealth Short Story Competition.
Born in Kano, Hadiza Isma El-Rufai holds BSc and MSc degrees in Architecture from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, and an MBA degree from the same university.
Born in Nigeria, Odafe Atogun is a writer who draws inspiration from his African society to create a unique and colorful world where humankind is consumed by a common desire for change.
Nnedi Okorafor is a Nigerian American author of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for both children and adults and a professor at the University at Buffalo, New York.