The Zimbabwean Crisis after Mugabe (PDF)

Tendai Mangena (PhD) is Associate Professor in African Literary and Cultural studies at Great Zimbabwe University and Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of the Free State, South Africa. She was a Fulbright Research Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at the University of California, Riverside, USA, in 2020 and an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Postcolonial Literary and Cultural studies at Bremen University, Germany, from 2016 to 2018. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, politics, power, and justice in African literature and onomastics.

Oliver Nyambi (PhD) teaches English and Cultural Studies in the Department of English, University of the Free State, South Africa. He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow hosted by Susan Arndt in The Professorship of English Studies and Anglophone Literatures at Bayreuth University, Germany. A former fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Duke Africa Initiative at Duke University, USA, his research mainly focuses on crisis/ humanitarian literatures, the Zimbabwean crisis and the cultural politics of marginalities. His recent book is Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe: Versions and Subversions of Crisis (2019, Routledge). He is an editor with Cogent Arts & Humanities - the open-access journal published by Routledge. He is a rated researcher with the South African National Research Foundation (NRF).