Dr Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet and playwright based in London and founder of the Obsidian Foundation. His new collection, The New Carthaginians (Penguin, 2025), was shortlisted for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize. He has won the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize and Poetry London Prize, and his debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity (2017), was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize and named one of The Guardian’s best books of the year. His work has appeared in leading international journals, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of 2025.