Michela Wrong

Michela Wrong is a distinguished international journalist with nearly three decades of experience writing about the continent of Africa. She has worked as a foreign correspondent covering events across the continent for Reuters, the BBC and the Financial Times. She writes regularly for the New Statesman.

Based on her experiences in Africa, In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, her first book (2001), won the PEN James Sterne Prize for non-fiction. Her fifth book, Do Not Disturb, published in 2021 explores the controversial career of Paul Kagame and the legacy of the Rwandan genocide.