Hafsa Zayyan is a writer and dispute resolution lawyer based in London. She won the inaugural #Merky Books New Writers' Prize in 2019. We Are All Birds of Uganda is her debut novel, inspired by the mixed background from which she hails. She studied Law at the University of Cambridge and holds a masters' degree from the University of Oxford. (Penguin Random House)
We have been under one or another form of state-imposed lockdown since March 2020.
Here, we have found new ways of escaping while staying inside.
Having had most of last year to settle into the new normal, many have resolved to spend more time reading so here’s a set of African titles to look forward to in 2021.