PROF HOMI BHABHA
Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. He is considered the world’s premier post-colonial literary theorist.
His books include Nation and Narration and The Location of Culture.
His forthcoming book projects will be published by some of the leading university publishers in the United States: Harvard University Press will publish A Global Measure, and Columbia University Press will publish The Right to Narrate.
Bhabha has developed a number of the field’s key concepts that describe ways in which colonised peoples have resisted the power of the coloniser.
His honours include the Padma Bhushan award, a prestigious award from the Republic of India that recognizes outstanding contribution in literature and education, the Humboldt Research Prize, and honorary degrees from Université Paris 8, University College London, and the Free University Berlin.
PROF NJABULO NDEBELE
Professor Njabulo Ndebele is Chairman of The Nelson Mandela Foundation and The
Mandela Rhodes Foundation.
He has served in many leadership positions in higher education, including as Vice-Chancellor at the University of Limpopo and the
University of Cape Town. He is currently Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg.
A poet, novelist and essayist who has received worldwide acclaim for his work, his books include, Fools and Other Stories, which won several awards in 1984: the Mofolo–Plomer Prize, the Sanlam Award for outstanding fiction, and the Noma Award, Africa’s highest literary award for the best book published in Africa. His other critically acclaimed books include the Rediscovery of the Ordinary, The Cry of Winnie Mandela, and Fine Lines from
the Box, which received the K. Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award.
He has received several honorary doctorates, and is the recipient of the National Research Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award.