Fumbani Phiri is a multi-award winning playwright and director for National Theatre Makers Awards in Malawi. He's also a dramatist, journalist, and theatre educator whose work has been on tv, radio, film and the stage. He is currently working as a theatre producer, actor, director, writer at YDC Theatre. 

He is publishing a digital book of five plays, all of them monologues written in five languages spoken in Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe. It's part of his vision of decolonising the arts by centring African languages. 

"Shifting our narratives is one way of decolonizing our arts and culture through celebrating our own society and values that define us."