Mamle Kabu

Mamle Kabu, a writer of Ghanaian and German parentage, was born in Ghana, and raised in Ghana and the UK. Her short stories have been published internationally in various anthologies and journals. In 2009, she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing for her story The End of Skill, on which her as yet unpublished full-length novel is based. She is a graduate of the universities of Cambridge and Lancaster in the UK, and an honorary fellow in writing of the University of Iowa. In 2023 Mamle served as a visiting Mellon fellow in creative writing at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. She is a director of the Writers Project of Ghana (WPG) and co-editor of two WPG anthologies, The Sea has drowned the Fish (2018), and Resilience (2021).