In Conversation: African women poets as translators of the wor(l)d: Conceição Lima, Tariro Ndoro, and Fatoumata Adelle Barry in conversation with Gabriel Bámgbóṣé

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Gabriel Bámgbóṣé

Gabriel Bámgbóṣé is an Assistant Professor of African and Comparative Literature in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is a poet, literary critic, and translator. His interests in scholarship include poetry and poetics, Black/African modernisms, African women’s literature, and Black/African feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial thoughts. Bámgbóṣé’s work has appeared in African Literature Today, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Contemporary Humanities, Ake Review, and Ideas & Futures, among other venues. His research has been supported by a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Fatoumata Adelle Barry

Fatoumata Adelle Barry is a medical doctor, public health practitioner, and Fulbright & Alfred Sommer scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is an award-winning poet and author of the short story collection, En attendant minuit. Her short story 'La quête' won the Niger National Prize in 2012. She is the founder of @LivresNiger, a nonprofit with a vision of promoting excellence through reading. She has an interest in feminist literature, travel literature, and writings that come at the intersection of health sciences and literature.

Tariro Ndoro

Tariro Ndoro is a Zimbabwean author. Her debut poetry collection, Agringada: Like a Gringa, Like a Foreigner, was the recipient of the inaugural NAMA Award for Outstanding Poetry Book. Her work has been shortlisted for the BN Poetry Prize, the DALRO Poetry Prize, and the Intwasa Short Story Prize. Tariro has read her work at numerous festivals and her work has appeared in Best New African Poets, The Kalahari Review, New Coin Poetry, Oxford Poetry, Puerto del Sol among other venues. Tariro was an International Writing Program Fellow in Spring 2022.

Conceição Lima

Conceição Lima is a Santomean poet, journalist, chronicler, and translator. A founding member of the National Union of Writers and Artists, she has authored four books of poetry: O Útero da Casa (2004), A Dolorosa Raiz do Micondó (2006), O País de Akendenguê (2011), and Quando Florirem Salambás no Tecto do Pico (2015). For a long time, she worked as a journalist and producer for the Portuguese Service of the BBC World Service in London. She currently works at TVS, the State Television in São Tomé. Lima’s poems have been translated into many languages and have appeared in several periodicals, magazines, and anthologies, including Metamorfoses, Prometeo, Antologia da Poesia Feminina dos PALOP, El Camino, World Literature Today, and The Literary Review, among others.