Grace A Musila teaches at the department of African literature, University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests include Anglophone African literature; African popular culture; and biography. She is editor of the Routledge Handbook for African Popular Culture (2022) and Wangari Maathai’s Registers of Freedom (2020); author of A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder (2015); and co-editor (with Michael Titlestaad and Karl van Wyk) of The Plague Years (2022) and (with James Ogude and Dina Ligaga) Rethinking Eastern African Intellectual Landscapes (2012).