Vamba Sherif

Vamba Sherif is a Liberian-born novelist, journalist, and film critic currently based in the Netherlands. His work, which is often set in Liberia or features Liberian-born characters in Europe, explores the themes of war, migration, alienation, and exile.

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Flame Trees

Vamba Sherif  | 
Issue 69.2 Spring 2020

Translated from the Dutch by Lucy Scott and Denice Gravenstijn I was away for twenty years. A period in which I became an adult and in which the country where I sometimes felt out of place in many ways had proven itself to be my home. That country was Belgium, where I had ended […]