Bongani Kona is a writer, PhD candidate 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 The Interpreters: South Africa’s New Nonfiction, Chimurenga, New York Times, The Baffler and BBC Radio 4. He is also the editor of Our Ghosts Were Once People: Stories on Death and Dying (2021) and serves as the chair of PEN South Africa.