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Ken Sibanda
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Ken Sibanda (born Kissinger Nkosinathi Sibanda, September 15, 1975) is a South African film director, science fiction writer and lawyer. Sibanda is a writer in science fiction from post-colonial black Africa. and in the black science fiction genre. Biography Kissinger Nkosinathi Sibanda was born in South Africa. His father, Andrew Sibanda was Xhosa. His mother, Lucia Taruvinga, was from the Shona from Zimbabwe. He started working in film, as a screenwriter and a cinematographer. He graduated in 2007 from the University of London with a law degree. Sibanda earned his masters degree in trial advocacy from Temple University in 2011. Early Life Sibanda was born in South Africa to an African National Congress active father. He grew up in Zimbabwe and started writing at a young age . Initially in his career, his works have been published under his middle name Nkosinathi (Nkosinathi Sibanda). In his early twenties he freelanced as a reporter with New York Amsterdam News, Black Voices, Quaterly Black Book Review, Black Enterprise and then Harvard University based Africana.com. Science Fiction Work In 2011, The Return to Gibraltar was published and has since received a wide international following . Sibanda has said that he intends on following up with a science fiction short film entitled, Species Venus. His first novel The Return to Gibraltar has since been reviewed in Spain, Gibraltar, South Africa and the United States.It tells the story of an African American named Horace Arthur Bates who time travels to 1491 Spain to help the Moors. Bibliography *The Return to Gibraltar *The Songs of Soweto *If God was a Poet Essays *Death of an Immigrant, Rethinking 9-11, in Unvealing the Real Terrorist Mind Short Stories *Population X *Man on Mountain: The short life of a Kenyan Rebel Screenplays *Hannibal the Great *Vindicator *The Triangle See Also
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