Kofi Anyidoho

Kofi Anyidoho is a Ghanaian poet, literary scholar, and Professor of Literature in the English Department of the University of Ghana with a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Anyidoho has published a large number of academic writings but also poetry which he has received multiple awards for such as the Valco Fund Literary Award, the BBC Arts and African Poetry Award, and the Ghana Book Award.

Helen Atawube Yitah

Helen Atawube Yitah is a Ghanaian Professor of English at the University of Ghana with a PhD from the University of South Carolina. She teaches in subjects such as African and postcolonial literature whereas her main research focus is gender identity and feminist studies. Yitah is amongst other honorary positions a Fellow and the Honorary Secretary of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Billy Kahora

Billy Kahora is a Kenyan writer, PhD in creative writing, teacher of creative writing at the University of Manchester, and editor of seven issues of the groundbreaking Nairobibased literary journal Kwani? Two of the stories in his short story collection The Cape Cod Bicycle War and other stories (2019) have been shortlisted for The Caine Prize and several have been printed in magazines all over the world.

Kakwenza Rukirabashaija

Kakwenza Rukirabashaija is a Ugandan lawyer and novelist who is currently exiled in Germany due to his first novel The Greedy Barbarian (2020) that explores themes of high-level corruption in a fictional country. He has also written Banana Republic: Where Writing is Treasonous (2020) which is an account of the torture he was subjected to during his imprisonment. In 2021, the author won the English PEN 2021 Pinter International Writer of Courage Award and in 2023 he published The Savage Avenger (2023) that narrates the way he escaped to Germany.

Emmanuel Saboro

Emmanuel Saboro is a Ghanaian Senior Lecturer in African Literature, Memory, and Slavery Studies and the Director of the Centre for African and International Studies at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. Saboro works with oral and material cultures of enslavement amongst northern communities in Ghana and he has written the book Wounds of Our Past: Remembering, Captivity, Enslavement and Resistance in African Oral Narratives (2022).

William Nsuiban

William Nsuiban is a Ghanaian Museum and Heritage practitioner and Research Fellow at the Global Heritage Laboratory at the University of Bonn in Germany. He is currently doing his PhD in anthropology at the University of Oxford where he explores the restitution of knowledge held in colonial anthropological archives with a focus on material culture, photographs, and sound collections.

Gabriel Awuah Mainoo

Gabriel Awuah Mainoo is a prizewinning Ghanaian poet, writer, editor, and dramaturge who debuted in Danish with the poetic book of letters written in collaboration with Danish writer Anne Green Munk Hvor end havet skyller dig op (Wherever the sea spits you) in June 2024. Awuah Mainoo has received a number of international awards such as the Singapore Poetry Prize 2022, the Samira Bawumia Literature Prize 2022, and the Stephen A. Dibiase Poetry Prize 2021.  

Qaali Schmidt-Sørensen

Qaali Schmidt-Sørensen is a Somali-Danish writer and social scientist who was born in Somalia and later fled to Denmark with her family due to the civil war in the country.
She is interested in subjects such as free speech and integration of immigrants and refugees and has published two subject books, one children’s book, one children’s song, five monologues, and one play besides contributions to numerous other publications.

Anne Green Munk

Anne Green Munk is a Danish writer, PhD in comparative literature, and postdoc in the project Authoring Slavery at Aarhus University. She has in collaboration with the Ghanaian poet Gabriel Awuah Mainoo written the poetic book of letters Hvor end havet skyller dig op (Wherever the sea spits you) published in June 2024. She is currently writing the autobiographical travel novel The Star of Africa about Ghana and its Danish slave history.

Thomas Boberg

Thomas Boberg is a Danish poet and writer who has published more than 30 collections of poems and travel memoirs. He has written about his travels to South America, USA, Europe, and India, and in 2019 he published Africana, a book which takes the reader through his travels around the African continent.

Jeppe Brixvold

Jeppe Brixvold is a prize-winning Danish author who has written five novels, a collection of short stories, and the travel diary Hæfte (Notebook, 2000) from the pilgrim’s path El Camino de Santiago in Spain. His latest work is the historical novel I de levendes verden (In The World of the Living, 2023), which has gained recognition in Denmark for its original treatment of a dark chapter in Danish history: The slave trade on The Guinea Coast (modern day Ghana) in the 1780’s.