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desert in the world took Jeroen to Tamanrasset through the vast
sandy plains of Algeria and back through the Hoggar to places like
'In Salah' and the M'Zab valley'. It is here he took most pictures of
daily life in Algeria and its people, whom he found to be proud but
also warm and friendly.
Ikeogu Oke's poetry has been published on both sides of the
Atlantic since 1988. He holds a BA in English and Literary Studies
from the University of Calabar and an MA in Literature from the
University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He has published four poetry
collections: Where I Was Born, Salutes without Guns, Song of Success and
Other Poems for Children and In the Wings of Waiting. In 2010, the
Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer selected his Salutes Without Guns
as one of the Books of the Year for the Times Literary Supplement,
describing him as ―a writer who finds the metaphor for what has
happened and continues, evolves, not often the way we want in our
lives in Africa and the world‖ and who ―does so timelessly and
tellingly, as perhaps only a poet can.‖
Keguro Macharia is a literary and cultural critic. He blogs at
gukira.wordpress.com
Kenneth Harrow is Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan
State University. His work focuses on African cinema and literature,
Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies. He is the author of Thresholds of
Change in African Literature (Heinemann, 1994), Less Than One and
Double: A Feminist Reading of African Women’s Writing (Heinemann,
2002), and Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to
Postmodernism (Indiana U P, 2007). His latest work Trash! A Study of
African Cinema Viewed from Below, was published by Indiana
University Press in 2013. He has edited numerous collections on
such topics as Islam and African literature, African cinema, and
women in African literature and cinema.
Lara Daniels is a registered nurse whose nursing experience cuts
across both critically ill patients as well as patients diagnosed with
mental health disorders. When she is not working with her patients,
you‘ll find her penning African-based romance novels. She makes
her home in Texas and can be found www.lardaniels.org.
Mike Pflanz is a British journalist based in Nairobi as the East, West
and Central Africa Correspondent for the UK Daily Telegraph. Born
in Kenya, he returned from Britain to work in Africa in 2004, and has
since reported from 22 countries across the continent, including
Somalia, DR Congo and Sierra Leone. Aside from in the Telegraph
titles, Pflanz‘s work has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor,
The Scotsman, The Times, Reader‘s Digest, ArtVoice, The Boston
Phoenix and he appears on radio or television as a commentator on
African affairs.
Miriam Jerotich is a writer, blogger, and researcher studying Cultural
Anthropology and African Studies at Dartmouth College. Her short
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