Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction from Cameroon and Nigeria

Dami Ajayi is a poet, short story writer, essayist and medical doctor. His debut book of poems Clin- ical Blues (WriteHouse Collective, 2014) was short- listed for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize. His poems are featured on BBC Radio 4, Prosopisia, World Po- etry Book, Badilisha Poetry X-Change, Enkare Mag- azine and elsewhere. His fiction has been widely anthologised in both print and online journals like Kalahari Review, Afreada, Jalada Africa, Gambit: Newer African Writing and ITCH Magazine. His non-fiction has been published in the Guardian UK, Chimurenga Chronic, Die Zeit, Wawa Book Review, OlisaTV, and Bakwa Magazine. His latest book, A Woman’s Body is a Country (Ouida, 2017) was selected by Quartz Africa as one of best books of 2017. He is a Senior Registrar of Psychiatry at Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba.

Dzekashu MacViban is a leading publisher of African literature and translation and curator of literary practices. He is the founder of Bakwa Books, a Cameroon-based publishing house which empowers creatives and storytellers through print and podcast projects. He was previously Editorial Manager at This is Africa and has been guest editor at The Schloss Post and Solitude Journal. He is the editor of Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon (2020), and co-editor of Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction from Cameroon and Nigeria (2020). He is the author of Scions of the Malcontent and his writing has been translated into Japanese, German, French and Spanish. Dzekashu recently curated “You Have A Fullness You Need To Bring Out” (Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2021) and he is a recipient of an Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship.

Emmanuel Iduma is a writer of fiction and non- fiction. Born and raised in Nigeria, his essays and stories appear frequently in journals, magazines, artists’ books, and exhibition catalogues. He is the author of The Sound of Things to Come (first pub- lished as Farad in Nigeria), and received a 2017
Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation grant in arts writing. He holds an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing from the School of Visual Arts, New York, where he now teaches. In 2017, he was associate curator of the Nigerian pavilion at the Venice Bi- ennale. He is editor of Saraba Magazine, which he co-founded. His latest work is A Stranger’s Pose, a book of travel stories.