Diane Malaika Brown was raised in Swaziland and South Africa. She enjoys travelling, reading, writing and mentoring.

She is often quoted as saying "Our stories are important and need to be told" - this underlying her view that Africans need to write more to document history from their point of view, to sustain culture, to reflect society to itself and to speak truth to power.

Diane speaks out boldly against injustice, inequality, racism and sexism.