INTERVIEWS & EVENTS

Readings & Panels

• 2025: BuchBasel and Culturescapes (Switzerland) – Garden Reading and evening talk on “What languages Africa Reads”

• 2025: National Centre for Writing (UK) – Translation Odysseys: Life as a Literary Translator

• 2023: Culturescapes Festival (Switzerland) – symposium talk “Why I translate” a reflection on global power imbalances in literary translation

• 2023: Tilted Axis Press (UK) – Who is Your Mythical Reader, a discussion with literary translators Anton Hur, Sawad Hussein and Sandra Tamele

Interviews

• 2025: Poda-Poda Stories (Sierra Leone) – On the importance of African translators in literature

• 2024: Harshaneeyam Podcast (India) on literary translation and Monique Ilboudo’s novel So Distant from My Life. This interview is forthcoming in an anthology of the podcast’s interviews.

• 2022: Words Without Borders (USA) on Monique Ilboudo’s novel So Distant from My Life

• 2022: Bribes de Minuit (France) – poetry podcast discussing my poem The Weight of a Name and identity.

Other

• 2024: Ouaga Coté Court, international short film festival (Burkina Faso) – president of the jury.

• 2021: Africa Simply the Best, pan-African contemporary dance festival (Burkina Faso) – jury member.