Bongani Kona is a Zimbabwean writer, editor, and lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of the Western Cape. His work has appeared in a variety of places including Chimurenga, Safe House: Explorations In Creative Nonfiction, The Daily Assortment Of Astonishing Things And Other Stories, The Baffler, and BBC Radio 4. Most recently, he edited Our Ghosts Were Once People: Stories On Death And Dying.

In 2021, Bongani’s “House Girl” was published in Doek! Literary Magazine. In 2023, his short story “War People” was published in Now Now: The 2023 Doek Anthology.

More from and about Bongani Kona: “A Kaleidoscopic Novel Of Radiant Beauty: Bongani Kona Reviews Ondjaki’s Transparent City” (The Johannesburg Review Of Books) • “Dark History Is Good For Literature: In Conversation With Mariana Enriquez” (The Johannesburg Review Of Books) • “The Descendants” (The Baffler) • “The Hidden Faces Of Apartheid” (The Baffler) • “Using Language Without Restraint To Show The Energy Of The ‘Wretched Of The Earth’: In Conversation With Fiston Mwanza Mujilo” (The Johannesburg Review Of Books)