Ruth Bush – Board Member

Ruth has lived in Bristol for three years and is a Lecturer in the French department at the University of Bristol, where she teaches African literature and co-directs the Foundation Year in Arts and Humanities.

She has published two books: an academic monograph, Publishing Africa in French (Liverpool University Press, 2016), and a popular history of New Beacon Books, the UK’s first radical black bookshop and publishing house. She is currently working on research projects with partners in Senegal and Uganda.