A Congolese writer born in Goma, Sinzo Aanza lives and works in Kinshasa. He is very active on the Congolese artistic scene, where he collaborates with visual artists and authors on interdisciplinary or literary projects, and publishes in the Chimurenga Chronic of Cape Town and the Gierick & NVT of Antwerp. His novel, Généalogie d’une banalité, which explored the misery of dreams in the margins of the mining Katanga, was published in France in 2015 at Vents d’ailleurs. It can be read in Poésie Afriques 2 (to be published in February 2017).