Pamela Maseko Editor & Translator

Jeff Opland recently retired after a career teaching at universities in South Africa, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. He is the author of numerous studies of Anglo-Saxon and Xhosa literature, and is currently editing and translating a series of texts drawn from his collection of Xhosa literature.

Wandile Kuse studied at the University of Fort Hare and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA where, influenced by A.C. Jordan, he earned an MA on iziduko and izibongo and a PhD on S.E.K. Mqhayi. He returned to South Africa in 1983 as Director of the Bureau for African Research and Documentation at the University of Transkei, South Africa and retired in 2001.

Pamela Maseko holds a PhD in Socio-linguistics. She taught at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and is currently teaching Sociolinguistics and Applied Language Studies at Rhodes University, South Africa.