Hello there. I'm Khaddafina, erstwhile vocalist, violinist and sound engineer. I'm a writer whose fiction revolves around the fractious inner lives of African women: their contentions with the past, their moral complexities, the fraught business of loving those they love or fail at loving. Usually, these women are prosperous, so they happen to belong to a subset of people not commonly found in literature. But I find this demographic to be as fascinating as any other, their lives as varied and cornucopian, as worthy of that Updikean pursuit of ‘giving the mundane its beautiful due’.

To read my work and get a more concrete idea of its flavour, go here. Agents and editors can get in touch here.

Some things I love or frequently ponder (in essay or newsletter form): history, theology, elephants, primates; Schubert, Rembrandt, gospel music, jazz; autumn, dark-roasted coffee; the mountains of Kigezi, the blue of the Ionian Sea. If you like the sound of that, find me on Substack. Also Instagram.