Sihle Khumalo is South Africa’s award winning and bestselling author. He has written five books and contributed to two.  

His first book, Dark Continent My Black Arse, covers his epic Cape to Cairo adventure by public transport. His third book, Almost Sleeping my way to Timbuktu, won the 2014 South African Literary Awards (SALA) in the creative non-fiction category. His latest book, Milk the Beloved Country, was published in March 2023. All his books were published by an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (PRHSA).

Khumalo is also a Board member at the Academic and Non-Fiction Association of South Africa – www.anfasa.org.za). 

In 2022 he was selected as one of the writing fellows at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) – https://jias.joburg. JIAS is based at the University of Johannesburg. 

He was educated at Natal Technikon (now Durban University of Technology) as well as Wits and Stellenbosch Business Schools. Sihle was born in Nquthu and currently lives in Johannesburg.