Alieu Bundu

Alieu Bundu fell in love with storytelling at a very tender age. It was his maternal grandmother who infused that love in him. When he discovered books later in school, he knew at once that writing was what he was going to do.

Alieu Bundu writes and sings from Sierra Leone. His story, Kwerekwere, was published by the online magazine Lolwe. In December 2021, Nipe Story adapted Kwerekwere, which was nominated for the 2022 Caine Prize for African Writing, into a podcast.

He was the runner-up for the April 2014 Africa Book Club Short Reads Competition, and he was also shortlisted for the 2017 Writivism Short Story Competition for his story Bintiya, now titled Miremba. Alieu Bundu’s epistolary novel, The Brilliance of a Million Suns, made the shortlist for the inaugural Iskanchi Book Prize.

His independently published novel, Silver Lining, and his novella, Homegoing, are available online. His EP, The Sky and Other Songs, is also available online.