MBULELO VIZIKHUNGO MZAMANE is the Project Leader and General Editor for the Encyclopaedia of South African Arts, Culture and Heritage and a Commissioner on the Presidential Review Commission on State-Owned Enterprises. Mzamane studied at the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, where he obtained dual first degrees in English and Philosophy as well as a Certificate in Education (with distinction), and an MA in English. He completed a Doctorate in English Literature at the University of Sheffield (England). The Vice-Chancellor He returned to his country of birth in 1993, after an exile of over 30 years, to take up the position of Vice-Chancellor at the University of Professor Malegapuru Makgoba Fort Hare, where he also held the faculty rank of professor in English Studies and Comparative Literature. cordially invites you to the Mzamane has also held academic appointments, visiting professorships and research fellowships at the Universities of Essen (Germany), Sheffield (UK), Vermont (USA), Georgia Steve Biko Public Lecture (USA), UBLS (Roma and Gaborone campuses), Ahmadu Bello University (Nigeria), University of South Australia, Boston University, Yale University, Brandeis University, Saint Michael’s College presented by in Vermont, University of California in San Diego, Australian National University, University of Venda, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal Professor Mbulelo Mzamane He is the author of Children of Paradise; Mzala: The Stories of Mbulelo Mzamane; Children of Soweto; Children of the Diaspora; and a children’s book, The Race between the Turtles and the Cheetahs. “The Old is Dying But The New Cannot Yet Be As initiator of the “My Life & Times” autobiography series, he is the co-author of Bernard Magubane: My Life & Times and is working on a number of autobiographies of iconic but under- Born”; The Politics of Transition in South Africa represented South Africans, and various leaders across Africa. He is also the author of Revisioning In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible Africa; Human Righting Apartheid. “ gift - a more human face”. Steve Biko He is the editor of Selected Poems: Sipho Sydney Sepamla; Selected Poems: Mongane Wally Serote; Hungry Flames and Other Black South African Short Stories; and an anthology of post- Apartheid literature from South Africa commissioned by the National Department of Arts and Date Culture, Words Gone Two Soon. He is also co-editor of Global Voices: Contemporary Literature from Thursday, 29 September 2011 the Non-Western World. His scholarly publications include Images of the Voiceless: Essays on Popular Culture and the Time Media (with John Haynes and Aderemi Bamikunle); and Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universities: A Transdisciplinary Approach (with Howard Ball and Steve Berkowitz). 13:00 - 14:00 Mzamane was commissioned by the South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET), a lead presidential project, to edit Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 2, 1970-1980), and a Venue companion series, Road to Democracy in South Africa: South Africans telling their Stories, 1950-1970. Lecture Theatre T4, T Block, Westville Campus He has chaired numerous boards, including, the African Arts Fund (affiliated to the UN Centre against Apartheid); and the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (affiliated University of KwaZulu-Natal to the University of the Witwatersand). He has been on the international advisory boards of academic and political entities, including membership of the International Task Force of the Rainbow Coalition/PUSH (founded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson) and the International Advisory RSVP Board of Directors of the Institute of International Studies, University of Michigan. He is co- [email protected] presiding Chair (with Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Nawal el Saadawi) of BUWA! (Against All Odds): African Languages and Literatures into the 21st Century, an African renaissance initiative. Enquiries: Pamela Adams Tel: 031- 260 7718 Mzamane was appointed by former South African Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Nelson Mandela to membership of the Heraldry Council and of the South African Broadcasting Corporation. In 2010 he was appointed by President Zuma to serve on the Presidential Review Committee on State-Owned Enterprises. In 2007 he became the first substantive Director of the Centre for African Literary Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. THE PREMIER UNIVERSITY OF AFRICAN SCHOLARSHIP.