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“The Most Powerful Woman – Person – in Anglophone African Literature Today”: Carey Baraka Profiles Ellah Wakatama
Carey Baraka has written a long, richly detailed portrait of Ellah Wakatama, the Zimbabwe-born editor credited with shaping the 21st-century African literary canon more than perhaps anyone else working today.
The profile makes a case that Wakatama's influence on Anglophone African literature is without equal, a claim that feels less like hype and less like exaggeration the further into the piece you read.
If you have ever wondered who is quietly deciding which African stories reach the world, this is the piece that starts answering that question.
Originally published by Brittle Paper.