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Home Articles posted by Namwali Serpell

Namwali Serpell

Namwali Serpell
Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing, received a 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and was selected for the Africa39, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the most promising African writers under forty. Her first novel, The Old Drift, was published by Hogarth/Penguin Random House in 2019.


Why Are We Fascinated by Strange Faces?

Namwali Serpell Considers the "Smiling Disease" Exhibit, the Elephant Man, Michael Jackson, and Cleopatra
September 29, 2020  By Namwali Serpell
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Africa Has Always Been Sci-Fi

On Nnedi Okorafor and a New Generation of Afrofuturists
April 1, 2016  By Namwali Serpell
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