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.