Richard Ali A Mutu Kahambo is a Congolese writer living in Kinshasa. In 2014, he was selected as one of 39 young African writers under the age of 40 considered to be the most promising in Africa. 

He’s the author of a best-selling novel written entirely in Lingala, called Ebamba. Kinshasa-Makambo. He’s producing a literary series on notable memorial sites in the DRC. “It is only through these new narratives that we will restore the dignity of the continent's sons and daughters.”