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Ernest N. Emenyonu

ERNEST N. EMENYONU is a professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint. A specialist in African Literature, he has taught African Literature in institutions of higher learning in Nigeria and the United States, and published extensively in the field. His other children’s books include a series, Bedtime Stories For African Children. He has also published a collection of short stories, Tales of Our Motherland. He is the Editor of African Literature Today.

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Brian Raftopoulos

Professor Brian Raftopoulos is a leading Zimbabwean scholar and activist. Formally an Associate Professor of Development Studies at the University of Zimbabwe, he moved to Cape Town at the end of March 2006 and is currently the Director of Research and Advocacy in the Solidarity Peace Trust, an NGO dealing with human rights issues in Zimbabwe. He has published widely on Zimbabwean history, labour history, historiography, politics, and economic issues. Currently he is coordinating a book on the History of Zimbabwe with a group of Zimbabwean historians, as well as working on a study of The State and the Labour Question in Zimbabwe: 1945-2005. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Southern African Studies. In addition, Brian Raftopoulos has been a civic activist in Zimbabwe over the last decade. He was a member of the founding Task Force of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) 1998-2000, the editor of the NCA journal Agenda from 1999-2001, as well as the first Chair of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition from 2001-2003.

Books authored by Brian Raftopoulos

Developing a Transformation Agenda for Zimbabwe

Shari Eppel, Brian Raftopoulos

ISBN 9781920118785 | 66 pages | 244 x 170 mm | B/W Illustrations | 2009 | The Institute for Democracy in South Africa, South Africa | Paperback

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Books edited by Brian Raftopoulos

Becoming Zimbabwe

A History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008

Edited by Brian Raftopoulos, Alois Mlambo

ISBN 9781779220837 | 296 pages | 229 x 152 mm | B/W Illustrations and Maps | 2009 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

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Sites of Struggle

Essays in Zimbabwe's Urban History

Edited by Brian Raftopoulos, Tsuneo Yoshikuni

ISBN 9780797419841 | 288 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 1999 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

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Striking Back

The Labour Movement and the Post-Colonial State in Zimbabwe 1980-2000

Edited by Brian Raftopoulos

ISBN 9780797422865 | 328 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2001 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

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Zimbabwe's Unfinished Business

Rethinking Land, State and Nation in the Context of Crisis

Edited by Amanda Hammar, Brian Raftopoulos, Stig Jensen

ISBN 9781779220110 | 332 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2003 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

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Zimbabwe. Injustice and Political Reconciliation

Edited by Brian Raftopoulos, Tyrone Savage

ISBN 9781779220394 | 320 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2005 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

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