Leticia Kanywuiro (she/her) is a recent graduate who completed her Master’s in Education at a university in British Columbia, Canada. She is passionate about unpacking complex issues faced by communities and using storytelling as a creative form of raising awareness among the masses. She believes storytelling is one of the most tangible and critical forms of decolonization, as it creates space for readers to critically engage with the socio-political, economic, and environmental issues facing African communities, from the local level to the global stage.

As a Kenyan, Leticia looks to the scholarly and literary works of Jomo Kenyatta, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Kwame Nkrumah, and Yaa Gyasi, who have each used storytelling to explore important social justice issues surrounding race, gender, language, culture, land exploitation, and the various legacies and aftermaths of colonization that continue to affect the past, present, and future of African communities.