The American academic and literary critic Charles Larson once wrote that ‘those who say nothing has come out of Africa have not read the continent’s writers’. T...
Franklin Nelson is a secondary school student from Cambridge, United Kingdom. His combined interests in pursuing journalism - he has previously written for SLIK Magazine, the digital publication of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust - and the cultural and political history of Africa led him to apply for the Youth Editorial Programme, which he is greatly looking forward to contributing to over the coming months.