Véronique Tadjo is a writer, poet, academic, and illustrator.

She was born in Paris in 1955 and brought up in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. She completed her doctoral thesis in African American Civilization at the University of Paris.

Tadjo has lived in several countries such as Lagos, Mexico City, London, Nairobi, and fourteen years in Johannesburg where she headed the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is now based between London and Abidjan. You can find out more at veroniquetadjo.com or follow her on Twitter at @VTadjo.

Translated from French by Wangui wa Goro.

Wangui wa Goro is a social critic, academic, writer, and translator born in 1961. She is responsible for the translation of numerous works by Ngugi wa Thiong'o including Matigari and the Njamba Nene series. She is currently based in the UK and works as Editor at the African Development Bank.