Ellah Wakatama
Ellah P Wakatama, OBE, (Hon) FRSL has over 25 years of experience as a publisher, including five years as Deputy Editor of an international literary journal. Wakatama is Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books and chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing.
She serves on the General Committee of the Royal Literary Fund where she chairs the Writers’ Mosaic subcommittee. She is former deputy editor of Granta magazine, former editor-at-large for Granta Books and has also worked as Senior Editor at Jonathan Cape, Random House and Assistant Editor at Penguin. In 2011 she was awarded an OBE for services to the publishing industry and in 2016 was named one of New African Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential Africans’.
