Efemia Chela

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Efemia Chela (born 1991) [1] is a Zambian-Ghanaian writer, literary critic, and editor. "Chicken", [2] her first published story, was shortlisted [3] for the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing. [4] Chela has had short stories and poems published in New Internationalist , [5] Wasafiri , [6] [7] Token [8] and Pen Passages: Africa. [9] In 2016, she co-edited the Short Story Day Africa collection, [10] [11] Migrations. [12] She was also the Andrew W. Mellon Writer-in-Residence at Rhodes University in 2018. She is currently the Francophone and Contributing editor for The Johannesburg Review of Books . [13] [14]

Born in Zambia, Chela grew up in England, Ghana, Botswana and South Africa. She graduated with a BA degree in French, Politics, and Classical civilizations from Rhodes University in South Africa, [15] and at the Institut D’Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, France. [16]

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