Vera Wülfing-Leckie

She lived in Africa for much of her adult life, and translated, among others, works by Boubacar Boris Diop from Senegal and Véronique Tadjo from Côte d'Ivoire.

[1] Wülfing-Leckie began studies in medicine at the University of Dundee, where she became friends with South Africans committed to fighting apartheid, such as Edwin Cameron.

[1] The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 left her worried about the family's health, and planning to seek more safety in the southern hemisphere.

She translated texts by Diop to English, in 2014 the political essay L'Afrique au-delà du miroir to Africa Beyond the Mirror.

[2] Together with El Hadji Moustapha Diop, she translated mainly from a French version, Les Petits de guenon, and the English novel was published as Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks[3] by the Michigan State University Press in the series African Humanities and the Arts.