Efemia Chela (born 1991)[1] is a Zambian-Ghanaian writer, literary critic, and editor.
"Chicken",[2] her first published story, was shortlisted[3] for the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing.
[4] Chela has had short stories and poems published in New Internationalist,[5] Wasafiri,[6][7] Token [8] and Pen Passages: Africa.
[13][14] Born in Zambia, Chela grew up in England, Ghana, Botswana and South Africa.
She graduated with a BA degree in French, Politics, and Classical civilizations from Rhodes University in South Africa,[15] and at the Institut D’Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, France.