MADHU KRISHNAN is Senior Lecturer of 20th/21st Century Postcolonial Writing at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Her work centres on African writing and cultural production in English and French, with a particular interest in material cultures and the shifting horizons of 'the literary'. She has edited or co-edited special issues of Wasafiri, Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Research in African Literatures which examine print activism in 21st century Africa; postcolonial space; and the concept of the post-nation. In 2018, she will publish her second monograph, Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies and the Anglophone / Francophone Novel (part of James Currey Press's African Articulations series) and a minigraph, Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location (Cambridge University Press). BWESIGYE BWA MWESIGIRE is the cofounder of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence, which curates the Writivism Literary Initiative. He has published commentary, academic research, fiction and poetry in various periodicals and blogs including African Arguments, Chimurenga Chronic, This is Africa, Africa in Words, Africa is a Country, Saraba among others. He studied Law at Makerere University and Security at the African Leadership Centre (King's College, London).

He is a recipient of various fellowships among them the Harry Frank Guggenheim Young African Scholars Award. He is currently studying for a doctorate in English Literature at Cornell University.