Vamba Sherif (b. 1973, Liberia) is a novelist, essayist, and lecturer in African literature and Post Colonial Theories and Literary Criticism at Leiden University. His work has appeared in many languages. In 2021, Unprecedented Love, his life story told to his daughter, was published. He was co-editor of the groundbreaking anthology, Black: Afro-European Literature from the Low Lands; and The Comet, a speculative fiction anthology co-edited with Martijn Lindeboom and inspired by the classic science fiction story of the same title by W.E.B. DuBois. The Berliner Zeitung wrote of his work: “Vamba Sherif creates whirlpools of Shakespearean intensity.” He is currently at work on a new novel.