# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/efemia-chela
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:20:19.486Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/efemia-chela"
name: "Efemia Chela"
slug: "efemia-chela"
description: "Efemia Chela is a Zambian-Ghanaian writer, literary critic, and editor. Her first published story, \"Chicken\", was shortlisted for the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing. Chela has had short stories and poems published in New Internationalist, Wasafiri, Token and Pen Passages: Africa. In 2016, she co-edited the Short Story Day Africa collection, Migrations. She was also the Andrew W. Mellon Writer-in-Residence at Rhodes University in 2018. She is currently the Francophone and Contributing editor for The Johannesburg Review of Books."
tagline: "Zambian-Ghanaian writer, literary critic, and editor"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1991-11-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.68
  momentum:             15.37735849056604
  historical:           5.268646666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Efemia Chela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efemia_Chela"
    title: "Efemia Chela"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efemia_Chela"
    title: "Efemia Chela"
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  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efemia_Chela"
    title: "Efemia Chela"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%BB%8Cr%E1%BB%8Ba_Chela"
    title: "Ọrịa Chela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efemia_Chela"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59522655"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump