Asifiwe Kasereka Jeremie, a.k.a. Askas Jeremy, is a young novelist from The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), currently living in Uganda. He grew up in the Eastern region of DRC, in a town called Butembo. He then moved to Uganda where he got a Bachelor's Degree in Science in Information Technologies. He picked up an interest in writing in high school. He started writing small pieces of poems and essays, before shifting to writing novels. His stories are mostly fictional but greatly inspired by the instability and wars that have been raging in his country of origin since 1960.