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Meet the Team

These are the people behind Africa in Dialogue, who work full time behind the scenes to make the voices of Africa flourish.

Gaamangwe Joy Mogami

Gaamangwe Joy Mogami is a poet, filmmaker and interviewer from Gaborone, Botswana. Her work has been published in various African and International magazines. She is the Founding Editor of Africa in Dialogue. Gaamangwe works full-time as a Multidimensional Oracle & Ascension Guide, specializing in Quantum Inner Child Healing, Ancestral Miasma Healing, DNA Regeneration, Soul Retrieval & Rehabilitation, Timeline Clearing & Template Deprogramming, Sacred Feminine Healing and Soul Mission Activation. She is the founder of Warrior Mystery School & Warrior of Light Show.

Founding Editor (Botswana)

Nkateko Masinga

Nkateko Masinga is an award-winning South African poet and 2019 Fellow of the Ebedi International Writers Residency. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2018 and her work has received support from Pro Helvetia Johannesburg and the Swiss Arts Council. In 2019, she won the Brittle Paper Anniversary Award. Nkateko is an interviewer and director of the Internship Program at Africa In Dialogue, as well as the founder and managing director of NSUKU Publishing Consultancy. She is the author of a digital chapbook titled THE HEART IS A CAGED ANIMAL, published by Praxis Magazine. Her latest work has been selected by the African Poetry Book Fund and Akashic Books for the 2020 New Generation African Poets chapbook box set.

INTERNSHIP PROGRAM DIRECTOR (south africa)

Meet the Interns

April - September 2021

Aisha Kabiru Mohammed

Aisha Kabiru Mohammed is a law student at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Kaduna state is her home town. Aisha is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her pieces revolve around identity, feminism, and the African mind and body as political and spiritual entities. In 2019, Aisha won the inaugural Andrew Nok Poetry Prize, awarded by YELF. She later judged the 2020 edition of the prize. When she isn't studying law and writing, you can find her drinking tea, reading, stroking cats and volunteering to spread mental health awareness and to end SGBV. Aisha currently hosts a podcast segment for Ayamba LitCast called Poet Box Series.

Contributing Interviewer for creative non-fiction (Nigeria)

Tom Patrick Nzabonimpa

Tom Patrick Nzabonimpa is a writer from Kigali. He writes creative non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and screenplays. He was a resident at the 2020 Pen Pen African Writers Residency, second edition in Nairobi, and has won the 2020 Empower Africa Now Writing Contest in the short story category. Tom's works have appeared and are forthcoming in Brittle Paper, Twaweza Anthology, African Autograph, HQAfrica and WSA Magazine, among other places. He is a columnist at The New Times and the Country Coordinator of Writers Space Africa, Rwanda Chapter (WSA-R). He is also working on his debut novel. When he is not writing, you can find him drinking chai.

Contributing interviewer for creative non-fiction (Rwanda)

Charity Ngabirano

Charity Ngabirano is a Ugandan lawyer and short story writer who is currently freelancing for The Kampala Sun as a columnist. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Law from Makerere University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from The Law Development Centre. She worked with the Centre for African Cultural Excellence as the Project Coordinator for Writivism in its inaugural year, 2013. She lives in Kampala with her husband and their two beautiful daughters as a full-time mother.

Contributing interviewer for fiction (Uganda)

Kris Van der Bijl

Kris Van der Bijl is currently reading for a Master’s in Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town. His interests lie in African Literature in English. He writes short stories, poetry, book reviews and interviews. His writings have been published in the likes of Brittle Paper, LitNet, Lucky Jefferson and JA Magazine. He hopes to one day be called up-and-coming.

Contributing interviewer for Fiction (South Africa)

Tamanda Kanjaye

Tamanda Kanjaye is a meticulous and versatile Malawian writer, poet and editor with a distinct storytelling and creative style. She romanticises the gritty ebb and flow of the human experience and explores the concepts of tenderness, vulnerability, self-destruction and the idea of possible salvation and redemption. Tamanda has a scattering of published pieces and has been shortlisted in a few competitions. She studied journalism at The University of Malawi, The Polytechnic. She lives with her mother, her six dogs and her two plants in Lilongwe, Malawi.

Contributing Editor (Malawi)

Wambua Paul Muindi

Paul Wambua Muindi is a final-year student of literature and political science at the University of Nairobi. He was nominated for the 2020 Afro Bloggers Awards and is a Contributing Editor at Writers Space Kenya, an offshoot of Writers Space Africa. He is a highly motivated, self-driven and committed individual who is always seeking new challenges which require innovation and adaptation. He is a resourceful team player, a goal-driven leader, result-driven and oriented as well as an innovative problem solver. Importantly, he is a life and literature enthusiast.

Contributing eDITOr (Kenya)

Lesego Ramahobo

Lesego Ramahobo is a Digital Marketing professional, wordsmith and activist. With experience spanning 5 years, he has worked with multinational companies and market leaders across various sectors. Furthermore, he is a published English-to-Setswana translator by Facebook. Lesego maintains a healthy relationship with reading and writing, occasionally writing for social media and contributing to online articles. He is currently working on a series of articles titled Thinking About a Thing, exploring themes including human rights, the very vast dynamic of Blackness and language.

Social Media Manager (Botswana)

VOLUNTEERS

jUNE - DECEMBER 2017

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february - august 2019

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february - august 2019

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OCTOBER 2019 - aPRIL 2020

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MAY 2020 - OCTOBER 2020

Mutsa Diana Shiripinda (1991 - 2018)

Africa in Dialogue would not be possible without the influence and contribution of Mutsa Diana Shiripinda, a warrior who has since joined the ancestral realm.

Mutsa Diana Shiripinda was a 20-something Zimbabwean spoken word poet and broadcast graduate. Born in Harare and raised in Gaborone, Botswana; Mutsa was the first person ever interviewed by Africa in Dialogue’s founding editor. She was the visual director of Africa in Dialogue’s first issue.

We continue the work in her honor. Read her work at www.kadzidistrict.wordpess.com

Meet the Team

Gaamangwe Joy Mogami

Nkateko Masinga

Meet the Interns

April - September 2021

Aisha Kabiru Mohammed

Tom Patrick Nzabonimpa

Charity Ngabirano

Kris Van der Bijl

Tamanda Kanjaye

Wambua Paul Muindi

Lesego Ramahobo

VOLUNTEERS

jUNE - DECEMBER 2017

Chelsea Haith

Awetse Motlhabane

Ejiofor Ugwu

Kearoma Mosata

Miriam Watsemba

Alicia Connolly

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february - august 2019

Tshepo Phokoje

Helen Ajayi

Elelwani Netshifhire

Timi Odueso

interns

february - august 2019

Tshepo Phokoje

Helen Ajayi

Elelwani Netshifhire

Timi Odueso

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OCTOBER 2019 - aPRIL 2020

Peter Akinlabi

Ugochukwu Damian Okpara

Ope Adetayo

O-Jeremiah Agbaakin

Barakat Akinsiku

Ifeanyichukwu Peter Eze

Tega Oghenechovwen

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MAY 2020 - OCTOBER 2020

Chisom Okwara

Edith Knight Magak

Davina Philomena Kawuma

Saliha Haddad

Jaliya The Bird

Gerry Sikazwe

Kylie Kiunguyu

Tinotenda Heather Mavunga

Desmond Efe-Khaese

Mutsa Diana Shiripinda (1991 - 2018)