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Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is a Professor of history and politics and Director of the centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar. He specialises on the state and on genocide and wars in Africa in the post-1966 epoch, beginning with the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970,...

Grieve Chelwa

Grieve Chelwa recently completed his PhD in economics at the University of Cape Town, where he focused on the economics of tobacco control in South Africa, Uganda and Zambia. Previously, Grieve was a researcher at the Centre for Financial Regulation and Inclusion in...

Duduzile Zwane

Duduzile Zwane is currently a lecturer at the University of the Free State. She is also a PhD candidate at the University of Johannesburg (UJ).

Year of Chinua Achebe’s ‘A Man of the People’

Pambazuka [intro]This year, Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People celebrates its 50th anniversary. The writer’s fourth novel is the gripping satire through which he was perceived not only as the Father of African Literature, but also a prophet.[/intro] A Man of the...

Naledi Nomalanga Mkhize

Nomalanga Mkhize is a historian based at Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth. She currently holds an NIHSS Sam Moyo Postdoctoral Fellowship at Rhodes University.