{{Short description|Zimbabwean editor and literary critic (born 1966)}} {{Use British English|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Ellah Wakatama Allfrey | honorific_suffix = OBE, Hon. FRSL | image = DSF9695.jpg | alt = | caption = Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (photo by Julian Knox) | birth_name = Ellah Wakatama | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1966|09|16}} | birth_place = Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) | death_date = | death_place = | education = Arundel School; Goshen College; Rutgers University | other_names = Ellah Allfrey<br/>Shava, Musiyamwa (Address: vaChihera) | occupation = Literary editor and publisher | known_for = Publishing | spouse = Richard Allfrey }}
'''Ellah Wakatama Allfrey''', OBE, Hon. FRSL ({{nee}} '''Wakatama'''; born 16 September 1966),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Emmanuel |first=Eniola |date=2019-08-14 |title=Top 10 Literary Curators and Editors from Africa Right Now |url=https://moveee.co/2019-top-10-literary-curators-and-editors-from-africa-right-now/ |access-date=2025-09-13 |language=en-US}}</ref> is the Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/wakatama-allfrey-joins-canongate-editor-large-1022361|first=Heloise|last=Wood|title=Ellah Wakatama Allfrey joins Canongate as editor-at-large {{!}} The Bookseller|website=www.thebookseller.com|date=13 June 2019|access-date=2019-07-29|archive-date=29 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729200214/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/wakatama-allfrey-joins-canongate-editor-large-1022361|url-status=live}}</ref> a senior Research Fellow at Manchester University, and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.<ref name="Caine chair">{{Cite web|url=http://caineprize.com/press-releases/2019/4/2/our-new-chairperson|title=Our New Chairperson|website=The Caine Prize for African Writing|date=2 April 2019|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-29|archive-date=8 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408102030/http://caineprize.com/press-releases/2019/4/2/our-new-chairperson|url-status=live}}</ref> She was the founding Publishing Director of the Indigo Press.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brittlepaper.com/2018/06/press-town-indigo-press-promises-books-bold-ideas-beautifullycrafted-stories/|title=There's a New Publisher in Town! {{!}} Indigo Press Promises Bold Ideas and Beautifully-crafted Stories|first=Ainehi|last=Edoro|author-link=Ainehi Edoro|date=2018-06-04|website=Brittle Paper|access-date=2019-07-29|archive-date=7 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180907221341/https://brittlepaper.com/2018/06/press-town-indigo-press-promises-books-bold-ideas-beautifullycrafted-stories/|url-status=live}}</ref> A London-based editor and critic, she was on the judging panel of the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award and the 2015 Man Booker Prize. In 2016, she was a Visiting Professor & Global Intercultural Scholar at Goshen College, Indiana, and was the Guest Master for the 2016 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Foundation international journalism fellowship in Cartagena, Colombia. The former deputy editor of ''Granta'' magazine,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/allfrey-leave-granta|first=Joshua|last=Farrington|title=Allfrey to leave Granta {{!}} The Bookseller|website=www.thebookseller.com|date=3 May 2013|access-date=2019-07-29|archive-date=26 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240826181147/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/allfrey-leave-granta|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/allfrey-joins-granta-magazine|title=Allfrey joins Granta Magazine {{!}} The Bookseller|first=Benedicte|last=Page|website=www.thebookseller.com|date=20 July 2009|access-date=2019-07-29|archive-date=29 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729200151/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/allfrey-joins-granta-magazine|url-status=live}}</ref> she was the senior editor at Jonathan Cape, Random House and an assistant editor at Penguin. She is the series editor of the ''Kwani?'' Manuscript Project and the editor of the anthologies ''Africa39''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/africa39-9781408854679/|title=Africa39|last=Bloomsbury.com|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|language=en|access-date=2019-07-29|archive-date=19 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919062818/https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/africa39-9781408854679/|url-status=live}}</ref> (Bloomsbury, 2014) and ''Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction'' (Dundurn/Cassava Republic).
Her journalism has appeared in the ''Telegraph'', ''Guardian'' and ''Observer'' newspapers as well as in the ''Spectator'' and ''The Griffith Review'' magazines. She is also a contributor to the 2019 anthology ''New Daughters of Africa''.<ref name="Caine chair" /> She has also been a regular contributor to the book pages of NPR. Her broadcasting includes reviews for NPR’s ''All Things Considered'' and BBC Radio 4's ''Saturday Review''. She sat on the selection panel for the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship for seven years and served as a literature selector for the Rolex 2014-15 Mentor & Protégée Initiative, as well as serving as chair of the Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship Selection panel for three years. She sits on the advisory board for Art for Amnesty and the Editorial Advisory Panel of ''The Johannesburg Review of Books'' and the ''Lagos Review of Books''. In 2011, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the publishing industry and in 2019, she was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rsliterature.org/fellow/ellah-wakatama-allfrey/|title=Ellah Wakatama Allfrey|website=The Royal Society of Literature {{!}} RSL Fellows|date=September 2023|access-date=7 April 2023|archive-date=26 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240826181128/https://rsliterature.org/fellows/ellah-wakatama-allfrey/|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Biography ==
Born in Salisbury, Rhodesia, on 16 September 1966 to Zimbabwean novelist, journalist and publisher Pius Wakatama<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://weaverpresszimbabwe.com/reviews/151-garfield-todd/1001-book-launch-speech-by-pius-wakatama-2|title=Book Launch - Speech by Pius Wakatama - Weaver Press|website=weaverpresszimbabwe.com|access-date=2019-07-29|archive-date=29 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729200153/http://weaverpresszimbabwe.com/reviews/151-garfield-todd/1001-book-launch-speech-by-pius-wakatama-2|url-status=live}}</ref> and entrepreneur and Christian women's rights activist Winnie Wakatama (''née'' Ndoro), Ellah Wakatama spent her formative years between Salisbury and the midwestern USA while her father studied at the University of Iowa. She returned to Rhodesia at the age of 10, attending Arundel School. Her return to America was prompted by her college education, which began at Goshen College, where she received a BA in Journalism, ending at Rutgers University, where she earned an MA from the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
She now resides in London, UK, working as Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books, Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and Chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing.
She is the sister of writer and natural-birth campaigner Mavhu Farai Wakatama Hargrove and of the late Nhamu Wakatama and Richard Wakatama.<ref name=Aguirre /><ref name="Writers need new ways" /> Wakatama married fellow Goshen College graduate Richard Allfrey, with whom she has a daughter.<ref name=Aguirre />
==Awards==
A Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts,<ref>[https://www.thersa.org/events/speakers/ellah-allfrey "Ellah Allfrey"], RSA.</ref> Allfrey was awarded an OBE in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to the publishing industry.<ref>[https://www.zimbabwesituation.com/old/jan1_2011.html#Z8 "Zimbabwean writer to receive OBE from Queen"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107104046/https://www.zimbabwesituation.com/old/jan1_2011.html#Z8 |date=7 November 2018 }}, ''New Zimbabwe'', 31 December 2010; via The Zimbabwe Situation. Retrieved 6 November 2018.</ref><ref name=Aguirre>Aguirre, Richard R., [http://www.goshen.edu/news/2011/04/04/a-royal-honor-for-ellah-wakatama-allfrey-88/ "A royal honor for Ellah Wakatama Allfrey"], Goshen College website, 4 April 2011.</ref>
In 2019, she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.<ref>[https://myriadeditions.com/uncategorized/myriad-authors-awarded-at-the-royal-society-of-literature-summer-party/ "Myriad authors awarded at the Royal Society of Literature summer party"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704122452/https://myriadeditions.com/uncategorized/myriad-authors-awarded-at-the-royal-society-of-literature-summer-party/ |date=4 July 2019 }}, Myriad Editions, 2019.</ref><ref>[https://rsliterature.org/2019/06/rsl-elects-45-new-fellows-and-honorary-fellows/ "RSL Elects 45 new Fellows and Honorary Fellows"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228184936/https://rsliterature.org/2019/06/rsl-elects-45-new-fellows-and-honorary-fellows/ |date=28 February 2021 }}, The Royal Society of Literature, 25 June 2019.</ref>
She was named ''Brittle Paper''{{'}}s "African Literary Person of the Year 2019". an award recognizing individuals who work behind the scenes to hold up the African literary establishment.<ref>[https://brittlepaper.com/2019/12/ellah-wakatama-allfrey-is-brittle-papers-african-literary-person-of-the-year-2019/ "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is Brittle Paper’s African Literary Person of the Year 2019"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228234138/https://brittlepaper.com/2019/12/ellah-wakatama-allfrey-is-brittle-papers-african-literary-person-of-the-year-2019/ |date=28 December 2019 }}, ''Brittle Paper'', 24 December 2019.</ref>
==Selected articles and essays==
* Review of ''Call It Dog'' by Marli Roode (''The Guardian'', 28 August 2013)<ref>{{cite news|last=Watakama Allfrey|first=Ellah|title=Call It Dog by Marli Roode – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/28/call-it-dog-marli-roode-review|newspaper=The Guardian|date=28 August 2013|accessdate=28 August 2013|archive-date=26 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240826181142/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/28/call-it-dog-marli-roode-review|url-status=live}}</ref> * "The great Chinua Achebe was the man who gave Africa a voice" (''The Observer'', 24 March 2013)<ref>Wakatama Allfrey, Ellah (24 March 2013)[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/24/chinua-achebe-african-literature "The great Chinua Achebe was the man who gave Africa a voice"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240826181137/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/24/chinua-achebe-african-literature |date=26 August 2024 }} (Comment is free), ''The Observer''.</ref> * "All Hail the African Renaissance" (''The Telegraph'', 9 September 2011)<ref>{{cite news|last=Watakama|first=Ellah|title=All Hail the African Renaissance: The Storymoja Hay Festival with the British Council in Nairobi|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8749890/All-Hail-the-African-Renaissance-The-Storymoja-Hay-Festival-with-the-British-Council-in-Nairobi.html|date=9 September 2011|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=3 April 2018|archive-date=7 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007122159/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8749890/All-Hail-the-African-Renaissance-The-Storymoja-Hay-Festival-with-the-British-Council-in-Nairobi.html|url-status=live}}</ref> * "The cultural battle gave us books and music of genius" (''The Observer'', 13 April 2013)<ref>Quoted in [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/13/margaret-thatcher-influence-women "Margaret Thatcher and her influence on women"], ''The Observer'', 13 April 2013.</ref> * "Writers need new ways of talking about Africa's past and present" (''The Guardian'', 4 June 2016)<ref name="Writers need new ways">Wakatama Allfrey, Ellah (4 June 2016), [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/04/ellah-wakatama-allfrey-talking-about-africa-past-present "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey: writers need new ways of talking about Africa's past and present"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240826181151/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/04/ellah-wakatama-allfrey-talking-about-africa-past-present |date=26 August 2024 }}, ''The Guardian''.</ref> * "Longchase" (''New Daughters of Africa'', 2019)<ref>{{cite book|url=http://myriadeditions.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Margaret-Busby-Introduction-and-Acknowledgements-New-Daughters-of-Africa-Myriad-Editions.pdf|title=''New Daughters of Africa''|editor-first=Margaret|editor-last=Busby|editor-link=Margaret Busby|chapter=Contents|page=x|date=2019|publisher=Myriad Editions|access-date=22 March 2022|archive-date=25 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025153425/https://myriadeditions.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Margaret-Busby-Introduction-and-Acknowledgements-New-Daughters-of-Africa-Myriad-Editions.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Podcasts/video==
* Guardian Books podcast: Political fiction, 5 April 2013<ref>Presented by Claire Armitstead and produced by Tim Maby, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2013/apr/05/achebe-mohsin-hamid-jim-crace-podcast ''Guardian'' Books podcast] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240826181655/https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2013/apr/05/achebe-mohsin-hamid-jim-crace-podcast |date=26 August 2024 }}: Political fiction, 5 April 2013.</ref> * Ellah Wakatama Allfrey on ''Behind the Headlines'', 3 January 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.podcast.2bctnd.net/?p=8670 |title=SWRadioAfrica. |access-date=14 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020032921/http://www.podcast.2bctnd.net/?p=8670 |archive-date=20 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Ellah Allfrey talks with Audible about the fourth edition of ''Granta''{{'}}s "Best of Young British Novelists".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRl-OdQCzOU "Ellah Allfrey, Deputy Editor of Granta, talks about Granta Best of Young British Novelists"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529003115/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRl-OdQCzOU |date=29 May 2016 }}, Audible.co.uk, 4 April 2013. YouTube.</ref>
==Opinion==
* "The 10 best contemporary African books". ''The Observer'', 26 August 2012.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2012/aug/26/africa "The 10 best contemporary African books. As chosen by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, deputy editor of Granta Magazine. From a reinterpreted Heart of Darkness to a barstool in Congo"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204172310/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2012/aug/26/africa |date=4 February 2017 }}, ''The Observer'', 26 August 2012.</ref> * Quoted by Parselo Kantai, Nairobi, in [http://www.theafricareport.com/Books/publishing-book-ends-and-new-beginnings.html "Publishing: Book ends and new beginnings"], ''The Africa Report'', 8 February 2012. * "No Violet: From the African Booker to the Booker longlist"<ref>[http://namibia.gotvafrica.com/Enews/newsdetails.aspx?id=14195 Quoted in "No Violet: From the African Booker to the Booker longlist"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014173138/http://namibia.gotvafrica.com/Enews/newsdetails.aspx?id=14195 |date=14 October 2013 }}, GOtv, 25 July 2013.</ref>(quote)
==Interviews==
* "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE on Behind the Headlines", SW Radio Africa, 3 January 2011.<ref>Interview by Lance Guma [http://www.swradioafrica.com/pages/behind170111.htm on SW Radio Africa, Zimbabwe] {{Webarchive|url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110601180005/http%3A//www.swradioafrica.com/pages/behind170111.htm |date=1 June 2011 }}, broadcast 3 January 2011.</ref> * "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Granta in Nairobi, Kenya".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishcouncilarts_/9097442511/in/set-72157634245549006 |title=britishcouncilarts on Flickr. |date=19 June 2013 |access-date=28 May 2016 |archive-date=26 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240826181809/https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishcouncilarts_/9097442511/in/set-72157634245549006 |url-status=live }}</ref> * Nyana Kakoma, [http://www.africanwriterstrust.org/ellah-wakatama-allfrey-on-how-she-became-an-editor-and-why-editing-should-be-professionalised/ "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey on how she became an editor and why editing should be professionalised"], African Writers Trust, 30 June 2014. *[http://shortstorydayafrica.org/news/publishers-themselves-and-gate-keepers-need-to-be-more-creative-an-interview-with-ellah-wakatama-allfrey "...Publishers themselves and Gate-Keepers need to me more creative." An Interview with Ellah Wakatama Allfrey], Short Story Day Africa, 30 November 2016.
==Collaborations==
* African Writers Trust Literary Feast, Uganda, May 2012.<ref>TJH, [http://www.africanwriterstrust.org/updates-from-african-writers-trust/ "Updates from African Writers Trust"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016063659/http://www.africanwriterstrust.org/updates-from-african-writers-trust/ |date=16 October 2013 }}, 6 April 2012.</ref> * Literary week Nairobi, judge.<ref>[http://literature.britishcouncil.org/news/2013/june/kwani-nairobi "Granta comes to Nairobi"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016131532/http://literature.britishcouncil.org/news/2013/june/kwani-nairobi |date=16 October 2013 }}, British Council, 19 June 2013.</ref> * Judge for Kwani? Manuscript Project<ref>[http://manuscript.kwani.org/kwani-manuscript-project-news.php "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is Series Editor for Kwani? Manuscript Project"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802000950/http://manuscript.kwani.org/kwani-manuscript-project-news.php |date=2 August 2017 }}, 27 November 2013</ref> – literary prize for unpublished fiction by African writers. * "The Trans-Atlantic, the Diaspora, and Africa" participant.<ref>The 2013 ''Callaloo'' Conference, [http://callaloo.tamu.edu/node/213 27–30 November 2013.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615121904/http://callaloo.tamu.edu/node/213 |date=15 June 2013 }}</ref> – conference hosted by Oxford University Research Centre for the Humanities, to discuss the newest theoretical scholarship emerging from the interdisciplinary fields of USA-derived Diaspora Studies and British-derived Trans-Atlantic Studies, and how these fields have diverged and converged in relation to the idea of Africa. * Patron of Etisalat Prize for Literature<ref>Kan, Toni, [http://telegraphng.com/2013/06/etisalat-launches-new-fiction-prize/ "Etisalat launches new fiction prize"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014171925/http://telegraphng.com/2013/06/etisalat-launches-new-fiction-prize/ |date=14 October 2013 }}, ''The Nigerian Telegraph'', 5 June 2013.</ref> – pan-African prize celebrating first-time African writers of published books of fiction. * Judge for 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize<ref>[http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/prizes/commonwealth-short-story-prize/2014-judges/ "2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize judges: Chair: Ellah Allfrey] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007014923/http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/prizes/commonwealth-short-story-prize/2014-judges/ |date=7 October 2013 }}, Commonwealth Writers.</ref> – award for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2000–5000 words) in English. * ''Wasafiri'' magazine (contributor), Volume 22, Issue 3, 2007.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Wakatama|first=Ellah|author2=Letitia Adu-Ampoma, Biyi Bandele, Sarah Brouillette, Margaret Busby, Becky Ayebia, David Dabydeen, Lizzy Dijeh, Stacy Engman|title=Among the contributors|journal=Wasafiri|date=October 2007|volume=22|issue=3|pages=91–94|doi=10.1080/02690050701566123|s2cid=219613649 }}</ref> * Interviewer – Binyavanga Wainaina's Book Launch<ref>Wagwau, Adam, [http://www.ghafla.co.ke/news/events/item/1972-binyavanga-wainainas-book-launch "Binyavanga Wainaina's Book Launch" (review)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016082851/http://www.ghafla.co.ke/news/events/item/1972-binyavanga-wainainas-book-launch |date=16 October 2013 }}, ''Ghafla!'', 5 June 2012.</ref> * Peter Godwin, ''The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe''<ref>{{cite book|last=Godwin|first=Peter|title=The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe|year=2011|publisher=Picador|location=London|isbn=978-0330507776|pages=368|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXseQhmJZlkC&q=Ellah+Wakatama+Allfrey&pg=PT107|access-date=23 May 2021|archive-date=26 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240826181652/https://books.google.com/books?id=dXseQhmJZlkC&q=Ellah+Wakatama+Allfrey&pg=PT107|url-status=live}}</ref> (acknowledgements). * Judge for 2010 Caine Prize for African Writing.<ref>[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/565c3d39e4b027c789ba5b70/t/56a93116ab2810988519b820/1453928731099/CainePrize+Judges+Archive+2000-12.pdf "Caine Prize Judges"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104102058/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/565c3d39e4b027c789ba5b70/t/56a93116ab2810988519b820/1453928731099/CainePrize+Judges+Archive+2000-12.pdf |date=4 January 2017 }} Archive.</ref> * Introduction to Kojo Laing, ''Woman of the Aeroplanes''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Laing|first=Kojo|title=Woman of the Aeroplanes|year=2011|publisher=Heinemann|location=Oxford|isbn=9780435045722|ol=25213240M|pages=286}}</ref> * Judge 2011 for David Cohen Prize for Literature. * Editor of ''Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara'' (2014), with a Preface by Wole Soyinka * Judge 2015 for Man Booker Prize * Editor of ''Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction'' (Cassava Republic Press, 2016) * Interview with Margaret Busby, ''Wasafiri'', November 2017.<ref>Allfrey, Ellah Wakatama, [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02690055.2017.1350364?src=recsys&journalCode=rwas20 "An Interview with Margaret Busby"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407122255/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02690055.2017.1350364?src=recsys&journalCode=rwas20 |date=7 April 2023 }}, ''Wasafiri'', Volume 32, 2017, Issue 4, pp. 2–6.</ref>
==References==
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==External links== * Interview by Shalini Gidoomal: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diH8-j5_2gI "Ellah Allfrey on what needs to change for more African writers to get a chance to sit at the table"], YouTube, 28 October 2013. * NPR: [http://www.wnyc.org/people/ellah-allfrey/ Ellah Allfrey page], WNYC. * Charles Henry Rowell, [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/callaloo/v036/36.3.rowell03.pdf "An Interview with Ellah Allfrey"], ''Callaloo'', Volume 36, Number 3, Summer 2013, pp. 753–57. 10.1353/cal.2013.0148 * [http://brittlepaper.com/2013/05/video-chimamanda-chats-granta-editor-ellah-allfrey/ Chimamanda Adichie chats with Ellah Allfrey (video)], ''Brittle Paper'', 23 May 2013.
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