Dzekashu MacViban is a writer, editor, curator, and founder of Bakwa, an organization that empowers African creatives through multimedia publishing, audio, and translation projects through Bakwa Books and Bakwa Magazine. He is the editor of Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon and co-editor of Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction from Cameroon and Nigeria, and Your Feet Will Lead You Where Your Heart Is.

Taking as a departure point indigenous epistemologies, linguistic disobedience, and Afro-diasporic discourse, his curatorial practice investigates the politics of identity and spatiality, and how this is linked to individual and collective histories. Among others, he has curated You Have A Fullness You Need To Bring Out (Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2021), co-curated Middle Ground: Interactions, Transactions, and Reciprocities (HKW, 2023, 2024), co-curated Almost Blind: Chile 1973-2023 (HKW, 2023), curated Pitch Poetics: Football Commentary as Oralture (within the framework of Ballet of the Masses: On Football and Catharsis, HKW, 2024), and curated Kokende Liboso Eza Kokomate: On Contiguous Narratives and Poetic Cosmologies (Academie des Beaux Arts, Institut Francais Kinshasa, 2025).

His essays and nonfiction have appeared in The Ann Arbor Review of Books, The Africa Report, OkayAfrica, and IDG Connect and his short stories have appeared in Wasafiri, Kwani?, and Jungle Jim among others. His work has been translated into German, French, Japanese, and Spanish.

He is a recipient of fellowships from Akademie Schloss Solitude, and the Valie Export Centre, and is currently curator of Literature and Oralture Practices at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.