Christopher J. Lee is an associate professor of history at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. His previous books include Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010), Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (2014), and Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (2015).
Alex La Guma (1925–1985) was a South African writer and activist. The recipient of a number of literary awards during his lifetime, he is the author of A Walk in the Night and Other Stories (1967) and In the Fog of the Seasons’ End (1972), among many books. Originally from Cape Town, he died in Havana, Cuba, while serving as a diplomatic representative for the African National Congress in the Caribbean.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is a Kenyan writer best known for his books Weep Not, Child (1964), A Grain of Wheat (1967), Petals of Blood (1977), and Decolonising the Mind (1986). He is widely considered to be one of the founders of modern African literature.
Blanche La Guma is a former anti-apartheid activist and the wife of Alex La Guma. She is the author of the memoir In the Dark with My Dress on Fire (2011).