Taban Lo Liyong is a prolific poet, critic, novelist, and short-story writer of South-Sudanese and Ugandan heritage. An alumna of National Teacher’s College, Kampala, Howard University, Washington and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, he has taught at universities in Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Japan. His works include Franz Fanon’s Uneven Ribs, Carrying Knowledge Up a Palm Tree, The Meditations of Taban lo Liyong and Another Last Word among others.
