Namwali Serpell

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Namwali Serpell is a 1-Time AALBC.com Bestselling Author

C. Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa 39, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing. The Old Drift is her first novel (photo credit: Marcia E. Wilson).

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3 Books by Namwali Serpell