# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ellah-wakatama-allfrey
# Generated: 2026-08-16T03:58:05.294Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ellah-wakatama-allfrey"
name: "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey"
slug: "ellah-wakatama-allfrey"
description: "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE, Hon. FRSL, is the Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books, a senior Research Fellow at Manchester University, and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. She was the founding Publishing Director of the Indigo Press. A London-based editor and critic, she was on the judging panel of the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award and the 2015 Man Booker Prize. In 2016, she was a Visiting Professor & Global Intercultural Scholar at Goshen College, Indiana, and was the Guest Master for the 2016 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Foundation international journalism fellowship in Cartagena, Colombia. The former deputy editor of Granta magazine, she was the senior editor at Jonathan Cape, Random House and an assistant editor at Penguin. She is the series editor of the Kwani? Manuscript Project and the editor of the anthologies Africa39 and Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction."
tagline: "Zimbabwean editor and literary critic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ellah_Wakatama_Allfrey_0453.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1966-09-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump