Priscilla Takondwa Semphere

Artist, Blogger, Entrepreneur, Student, Writer/Editor

Priscilla Takondwa Semphere was born and raised in Malawi and lived in South Africa for two years at the African Leadership Academy before attending Smith College, where she is currently a senior. She was a 2013 Global Teen Leader with Three Dot Dash as well as a Spring 2014 scholar at Watson University. She is the author of 'Ekari Leaves Malawi', the first title in a series of edutainive children's books that follow the journey of 8-year-old Ekari, a little girl traveling across the African continent. Each volume will feature one country that Ekari visits where she explores the culture of the continent in a unique way for early readers. Priscilla is also a budding postcolonial theory enthusiast who is interested in leveraging it to make international connections in social justice. Currently, she is a student of the Study of Women and Gender and African Studies in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Storytelling, culturally relevant children's content, post-colonial theory