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About the Contributors Lizzy A Attree is a Ph.D. candidate at SOAS in London studying ‘Literary representations of HIV and AIDS in literature from Zimbabwe and South Africa’. Past publications feature in: Words Gone Two Soon (Umgangatho, South Africa, 2005), The End of Unheard Narratives (Kalliope Paperbacks, Germany, 2004), Sign and Taboo: Perspectives on the Poetic Fiction of Yvonne Vera (Weaver Press, Harare; James Currey, Oxford, 2002). An interview with Phaswane Mpe was published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (2005), and a review of Nobody ever said AIDS (Kwela Books) appeared in Research in African Literatures (2006). An article on ‘Women Writing AIDS’ will appear in the Atlantic Literary Review. Involved in the literary tours African Visions 2002-05, for the Africa Centre, she also toured African writers as part of Reading Africa for SABDET (Southern African Book Development Education Trust). Memory C Chirere lectures in Literature at the University of Zimbabwe. He has published a collection of short stories called Somewhere in this Country with the University of South Africa Press. Together with Maurice Vambe, Chirere edited Charles Mungoshi: A Critical Reader (Prestige Books, 2006) a collection of academic articles on the Zimbabwean writer. Lene B Bull C Christiansen is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of International Development Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark. Her research on gender power relations in Zimbabwe is associated with the research programme ‘Sexuality, Gender and Society in Africa’ at the Nordic Africa Institute in Sweden. Lene holds an MA in Cultural Encounters and International Development Studies from Roskilde University, and she is the author of ‘Tales of the Nation. Feminist Nationalism or Patriotic History? Defining National History and Identity in Zimbabwe’ (The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, 2005). Anna C Chitando is a lecturer in English and Media Studies at the Zimbabwe Open University. Her research interests comprise children’s literature and gender studies. Her publications include (with Ezra Chitando): ‘Weaving Sisterhood: Women African Theologians and Creative Writers’, Exchange 34 (1), 2005; ‘An Investigation into Children’s Literature’, Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research 17 (3), 2005; and ‘Children’s Literature in Zimbabwe: Considerable Creativity and Innovation’, Mediaforum 3 (4), 2005. Her current research is on post-conflict transition, the state and civil society in Africa, which is co-ordinated by the Nordic Africa Institute. xi Pauline D Dodgson-Katiyo is a former Dean of the School of Arts and Letters at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and a former Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of North London. She lived in Zimbabwe during the 1980s, working for the Ministry of Education and the Institute of Mass Communication at Harare Polytechnic. She has taught at a number of British universities including the Open University, Sussex University, Thames Valley University and the University of Westminster. She has written articles on Zimbabwean and other African literatures and on post-colonial cinema. Ane M Marie Ø Ørbø K Kirkegaard is currently working as a lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at Malmö University in Sweden. She has conducted qualitative research in Zimbabwe since 1995, and defended her doctoral dissertation in Peace and Development Research at Göteborg University in 2004. Her main field of research has focused on discourses on sexuality and reproduction among black and white Zimbabweans, analysed through feminist and post-colonial theory. Since 2005 her teaching and research has been concentrated on sexualised violence in conflict zones, with a particular focus on a post-colonial reading of masculinity and femininity during conflict. Neil t ten K Kortenaar teaches African, Caribbean, and South Asian literature in the English department at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. He is the author of Self, Nation, Text in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (McGill-Queen’s, 2004) and of numerous articles on African literature, most recently ‘Oedipus, Ogbanje and the Sons of Independence’ in Research in African Literatures, ‘Achebe and Modern African Tragedy’ in Philosophia Africana, ‘Parents, Children and Fools’ in Scrutiny 2. Angeline M M. M Madongonda is a lecturer in Communication Skills in the department of English and Communication at the Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. Her research papers include ‘Traditional Cultural Practices: Arresting the Spread of HIV and AIDS Pandemic’ and ‘Islam in Traditional African Societies: Deconstructing the Myth of the Uncivilised Ape.’ Currently she is working on a paper entitled ‘ From the Mouth of Babes: Communicating a Cultural Renaissance through Music – The Rise of the Urban Grooves in Zimbabwe.’ Her areas of research interest include...