From filing lawsuits to directing film shoots

For his latest novel LLB graduate Ken Sibanda has moved into the world of detective fiction

University of London International Programmes graduate, Ken Sibanda, has a new novel coming out. Entitled Bird Watchers, it sees him moving away from the sci-fi genre of his previous book, The Return to Gibraltar, to embrace the world of detective fiction.

A litigation lawyer by training who also holds a Masters in Trial Advocacy from the Temple School of Law in America, Ken started writing when he was a teenager growing up in Zimbabwe. Now based in New Jersey, he spent the first four years of his life in Qunu, a small rural village in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province. Qunu also happens to be the birthplace of another former University of London International Programmes student: Nelson Mandela.

As well as being a novelist, Ken has published two collections of poetry – If God was a Poet and The Songs of Soweto: Poems from a Post Apartheid South Africa – and founded his own film production company, Proteus Filmworks, in 2007. He is currently working on a feature film, Hannibal the Great, based on the life of the great military tactician and Carthaginian general.

Find an advance chapter of Bird Watchers on Amazon: