Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

| birth_place = Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = Zimbabwean and British | education = Arundel School; Goshen College; Rutgers University | other_names = Ellah Allfrey
Shava, Musiyamwa (Address: vaChihera) | occupation = Literary editor and publisher | known_for = Publishing }}

Ellah Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL (born 16 September 1966), 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'' (Bloomsbury, 2014) and ''Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction'' (Dundurn/Cassava Republic).

Her journalism has appeared in the ''Telegraph'', ''Guardian'' and ''Observer'' newspapers as well as in the ''Spectator'' and ''The Griffith Review'' magazines. She is also a contributor to the 2019 anthology ''New Daughters of Africa''. She has also been a regular contributor to the book pages of NPR. Her broadcasting includes reviews for NPR’s ''All Things Considered'' and BBC Radio 4's ''Saturday Review''. She sat on the selection panel for the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship for seven years and served as a literature selector for the Rolex 2014-15 Mentor & Protégée Initiative, as well as serving as chair of the Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship Selection panel for three years. She sits on the advisory board for Art for Amnesty and the Editorial Advisory Panel of ''The Johannesburg Review of Books'' and the ''Lagos Review of Books''. In 2011, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the publishing industry and in 2019, she was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Provided by Wikipedia