Christopher E. W. Ouma is an associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Departments of English Literary Studies and African Studies at the University of Cape Town. His research and teaching interests include the broader field of contemporary African and African Diasporic literary and cultural production. He is particularly interested in African popular culture and black print cultures. He is the author of Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories andFutures Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and co-editor of The Spoken Word Project: Stories Travelling through Africa (Lektora Verlag, 2014; with Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Katleho Shoro).