Kalaf Epalanga

Kalaf Epalanga (1978, Angola/Portugal) is a writer and musician born in Benguela, Angola, and based in Berlin. As a musician, he co-founded the Kizomba Design Museum and the record label Enchufada and is a member of Buraka Som Sistema (on hiatus since 2016). He has written columns for the Portuguese newspaper O Público, GQ Magazine (Portugal), the independent Angolan online magazine REDE Angola and the Brazilian literary magazine Quatro Cinco Um. He published collections of literary chronicles in Portugal, Brazil and Angola. He co-curated the 2023 Africa Writes Book Festival in London (UK) and curated the 2021 Berlin African Book Festival (Germany). Whites Can Dance Too is his debut novel, translated into English by Daniel Hahn and published by Faber.