Chibundu Onuzo is the author of the novels The Spider King’s Daughter (2012), Welcome to Lagos (2016), and Sankofa (2021). She has won a Betty Trask award and been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize. She was selected for the Hay Festival’s Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature’s “40 under 40” initiative. She has a BA in history from Kings College London and an MA in public policy from University College London.