Vamba Sherif

Vamba Sherif is a novelist, essayist, film critic and speaker. He’s a lecturer in African Literature and Post Colonial Theory and Literary Criticism at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He has written many novels, short stories, essays and opinion pieces. His debut novel, Land of My Fathers, which is about the founding of Liberia as the first African republic in 1822, was published when he was 25 years old. Vamba Sherif’s work has been published in many languages, including Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, Polish and the Indian Malayalam. His essays, stories have appeared in Guernica, The New York Times, the German Kulturaustausch, African Writing, Trouw, Volkskrant, NRC and ZAM-Magazine, among others.