The Editors   

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Duncan Brown is professor of English Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg. He has published widely on South African literary and cultural studies, in particular oral literature and performance. His books include Voicing the Text (1998) and Oral

Literature and Performance in Southern Africa (1999).

• Michael Chapman is professor of English and Head of the School of Literary Studies, Media, and Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu- Natal in Durban. His numerous publications include the award-winning

literary history Southern African Literatures (1996; 2003).

• Stephen Clingman’s biography, Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary won the 1999 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, and is about to be released in a new edition by David Philip. He is also the author of The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside, and editor of Gordimer’s collection of essays, The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places. Currently Stephen Clingman is Professor of English and Director of the Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His new book, The Grammar of Identity, a study of themes in twentieth-century fiction, is contracted

with Oxford University Press in the UK.

• Elizabeth de Kadt has taught and researched in German and Linguistics for many years, and is currently responsible for the Access portfolio at

the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

• Barbara Harlow is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literatures in the Department of English at the University of Texas, Austin, with appointments in the Program in Comparative Literature and the Department of Middle-Eastern Studies. Her books include Resistance Literature (1986), Barred: Women, Writing, and Political Detention (1992), After Lives: Legacies of Revolutionary Writing (1996), and Imperialism and Orientalism: A Documentary Sourcebook (1999). She is currently working on an intellectual biography

of Ruth First.

• Susan Nalugwa Kiguli is a lecturer in the Department of Literature, Makerere University. She recently completed a PhD in the School of English, University of Leeds. She has researched and published on oral poetry and performance, with particular focus on Uganda. She is also one

of Uganda’s widely-recognised poets.

• Premesh Lalu is a senior lecturer in History at the University of the Western Cape. He is currently revising his manuscript, “In the Event of History: Postcolonial Difference and the Return of Hintsa’s Head”, for Ohio University Press’s New African Histories series. He is also working on elaborating a concept of the postcolonial university by examining the specific history of the University of the Western Cape in a project titled

“Finding UWC”.

• Zolani Mkiva was born in Idutywa in the Eastern Cape. He has performed as an imbongi for several prominent figures, including Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Thabo Mbeki. He is a graduate of the University of the Western Cape, and has produced a number of CDs, including Halala South Africa (1997), Qaddafi (2000) and Maz’enethole (2002). He is

reigning Chief Executive Officer of the Xhosa Royal Council.

• Corinne Sandwith is a lecturer in English at the University of KwaZulu- Natal. Her recently-completed PhD thesis is entitled “Culture in the Public Sphere: Recovering a