Mzamane Author

Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane was born in Brakpan in 1948 and was the first post-apartheid Vice Chancellor and Rector at the University of Fort Hare. He has taught English Studies, Comparative Literature, and African Studies at universities in Southern Africa, West Africa, Europe, US, and Australia. He is a widely published author and editor, and his works include Bernard Magubane: My Life and Times (2010), co-authored with Bernard Magubane; and Words Gone Two Soon: A Tribute to Phaswane Mpe and K. Sello Duiker (2006) amongst many others. He is the Project Leader and General Editor of an initiative begun in 2008, under the auspices of the National Department of Arts and Culture, to produce an Encyclopaedia of South African Arts, Culture, and Heritage (ESAACH).