Ahmet Sait Akcay is a lecturer at Center for African Studies, UCT. He mainly teaches modern African literature, world literature, postcolonial theory and debates on African Studies. He is completing his PhD in African Studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT), where he explores questions of hospitality and spatiality in the novels of Somali writer Nuruddin Farah. He holds a BA in Comparative Literature (Istanbul Bilgi University), an MA in History (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey), and an MPhil in African Studies (UCT), where he focused on modernist African poetry. Beyond academia, Akcay is an active literary critic and writer with over twenty years of contributions to international literary journals and newspapers. Currently, he contributes to one of South African leading paper, Mail & Guardian with reviews and critical essays. Akcay has authored five short story collections and three critical books, including Reading Orhan Pamuk: The Impossible Allegories of Reading, Houris in Mind: A Critical Analysis to Islamic Populist Culture, and Modern African Literature in Turkish. He was the editor of Turkish journal HECE’s special issue for Africa which covers major debates in social science in Africa. He also translated R.R.R Dhlomo’s An African Tragedy and Gebreyesus Hailu’s Conscript into Turkish. His work appeared in Social Dynamics, Research Africa, The Annual Review of Islam in Africa (ARIA), The Johannesburg Review of Books and African Books Collective.