I am a writer, essayist, and journalist of Sierra Leonean and Antillean heritage living between Côte d’Ivoire and Germany.

My writing explores place, modernity and the slipperiness of identity.

My first novel, Wilderness of Mirrors, has just been published in the U.S by Restless Books. Les Fugitives will publish in the UK in April 2026.

Click here to learn more about Wilderness of Mirrors. You can read an excerpt in Lit Hub here, or in Brittle Paper here.

In 2010, I won the Caine Prize for African Writing for my short story Stickfighting Days. My short fiction has been published in Guernica, The Georgia Review, Chimurenga, and The Granta Book of the African Short Story, and translated into French and German. My essays and criticism have appeared in The American Scholar, Africa is a Country, Contemporary & and The Guardian.

Click here to read my short fiction and essays.

I’ve been a prize juror for the Caine Prize and the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship. I’ve held writing residencies at Georgetown University’s Lannan Center for Poetics & Social Practice and Cove Park in Scotland. I am represented by the Wylie Agency.