Sally Hayden is a journalist and the author of ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route’. It won the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, An Post Irish Book of the Year, and was included on lists of best books of the year by outlets including the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times. She has reported across Africa, the Middle East and Europe, and currently works as the Africa correspondent for the Irish Times. “Growing up in the apartheid ghetto of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, Bulelani Mfaco became involved at an early age in protests for adequate housing & access to land with Abahlali BaseMjondolo, health care in the Khayelitsha Health Forum, and improved policing in neighbourhood watches. In 2017 he claimed asylum, seeking protection from violence and targeted killings of LGBTQ+ people. He is one of the Spokespersons for the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI) where he is campaigning for the right to work for all asylum seekers, and to end Direct Provision.”
