Dzekashu MacViban is a writer, editor, curator, and founder of Bakwa, an organization that empowers African creatives through multimedia publishing, audio, and translation projects through Bakwa Books and Bakwa Magazine. He is the editor of Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon and co-editor of Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction from Cameroon and Nigeria and Your Feet Will Lead You Where Your Heart Is.

His curatorial practice investigates the politics of identity and how this is linked to individual and collective histories and interdisciplinary formats that push the boundaries between literary and other artistic practices. Among others, he has curated You Have A Fullness You Need To Bring Out (Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2021), and co-curated Middle Ground: Interactions, Transactions, and Reciprocities (HKW, 2023, 2024), and Almost Blind: Chile 1973-2023 (HKW, 2023).

His essays and nonfiction have appeared in The Ann Arbor Review of Books, The Africa Report, OkayAfrica, and IDG Connect and his short stories have appeared in Wasafiri, Kwani?, and Jungle Jim among others. His work has been translated into German, French, Japanese, and Spanish.

He is currently curator of Literature and Oralture Practices at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin