Name: Awadifo Olga Kili
Profession: Lawyer, Legal Scholar, Poet, Author
Biography / Personal Statement:
I am a lawyer, legal scholar, poet, and author whose work resides at the intersection of law, literature, and moral inquiry. My writing interrogates the juridical and ethical conditions of human dignity, particularly within societies scarred by conflict, structural inequities, and inherited traditions of harm. Through literature, I seek to render visible the human face of law, those lives existing at the margins of legal protection yet central to the moral conscience of society.
I am the author of Victorious Tales, Echoes of Wails, and Stains on a Cowrie Shell. These works function as literary interventions that probe the ethical limits of culture, the moral failures of silence, and the imperative of reimagining justice beyond formal legal frameworks. My poems have been published extensively, with translations into Spanish, Hebrew, French, Italian, and Chinese. I also curate Words of Awadifo Olga Kili, a literary forum devoted to peace, justice, human rights, and reconciliation, premised on the belief that ethical reflection and empathy are foundational to societal transformation.
The 369-day literary and analytical journey I began on February 25th, 2026, and which will continue until February 28th, 2027, represents my vision for Africa. Through publishing daily essays on my Facebook timeline Awadifo Olga Kili, on my WhatsApp channel Words of Awadifo Olga Kili, and on Medium under my name Awadifo Olga Kili, this project is a structured exploration of the continent’s historical and contemporary fragilities, systemic inequities, conflict memory, and pathways toward ethical reconstruction. The journey is not merely scholarly; it is a moral and civic project aimed at producing insights that can guide African thinkers, policymakers, and communities in preventing conflict, restoring civic trust, and reimagining justice.
This initiative embodies my conviction that Africa must document its own history, interrogate its inherited structures, and craft its ethical and political future from within. By mapping the anatomy of conflict and the architecture of fragility, the project seeks to translate insight into action, memory into policy, and literature into a tool for the moral awakening of the continent.