Episode 16 (English) with Neema Komba

In this episode, writer and poet Neema Komba from Tanzania talks about her current novel project about Nduna Mkomanile, a female leader of the Majimaji war of resistance against German colonial rule. She describes how the fate of her family and community who fell victim to German colonial violence in 1902 has motivated her for the subject. Neema Komba is the author of "Mektildis Kapinga: A silent hero" and "See Through the Complicated", a poetry collection. She is the 2022 recipient of the Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship and the 2014 winner of the Etisalat Prize for Literature in the Flash Fiction category. Her story "Let them eat fruit cake" (published in Index on Censorship), was shortlisted for the 2019 Stack Awards for best original fiction. She is presently a doctoral student in entrepreneurship at Hanken School of Economics/Finland. The conversation took place on 7 March 2026 in Berlin.