Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele

Bhekizizwe (Bheki) Peterson, was a South African intellectual, script writer and film producer and Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He published extensively on African literature, performance and cultural studies as well as Black intellectual traditions in South Africa.

Makhosazana Xaba is a research associate at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research (WiSER). She is a multi-genre anthologist, and has published three poetry collections and an award-winning collection of short stories.

Khwezi Mkhize is Lecturer in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and co-editor of the journal African Studies. He is the author of numerous essays and co-editor of Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele.

Jill Bradbury is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand and a principal investigator in the Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation programme.

Hugo Canham is Associate Professor of Psychology in the School of Human and Community Development, University of the Witwatersrand, and a research affiliate of NEST (Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation).

Victoria J Collis-Buthelezi is Associate Professor in English at the University of Johannesburg and inaugural Director of the university’s Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class.

Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor and Chair of English at Princeton University.

Anne-Maria Makhulu is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University

Athambile Masola is a lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town.

Innocentia J Mhlambi is Associate Professor of African Languages at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Sikhumbuzo Mngadi teaches in the Department of English at the University of Johannesburg.

Thando Njovane teaches literature at Rhodes University.

Obi Nwakanma is a poet, literary critic and journalist, and Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, Orlando.

James Ogude is the Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria. He is Professor of African Literature and Cultures and edited Ubuntu and the Reconstitution of Community.

Christopher EW Ouma is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town. Ouma is the author of Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past.

Stéphane Robolin is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at Rutgers University, and a former Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research

Crain Soudien is Emeritus Professor in Education and African Studies at the University of Cape Town, an Honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela University and the President of Cornerstone Institute.

Tina Steiner teaches in the English Department at Stellenbosch University.

Thuto Thipe is a historian of Southern Africa and the African diaspora. She holds a PhD in History and African American Studies from Yale University.

Andrea Thorpe is a researcher and teacher focusing on South African diasporic writing. She holds a PhD from Queen Mary University of London.