
Leo Zeilig conducts research on African politics and history, specializing in radical transformation and change on the continent since independence. He is also a novelist and editor and has written extensively, including biographies of some of Africa’s most important revolutionaries and thinkers. Zeilig has many years working as an editor for a range of publications, websites, books and journals. He has also edited fiction, and poetry and is sensitive to the battle to express ourselves in our writing whatever the form.
Leo is the author of The Winter Circus (2026).




