Harry Garuba

Harry Olúdáre Garuba (6 April 1958 – 28 February 2020) was a Nigerian-born writer of poetry and a professor of African Studies and English at the University of Cape Town. In 1988 he graduated from the same university with his PhD. After getting his degree, he taught at Ibadan for fifteen years before finally emigrating to South Africa to teach at the University of Zululand's English department. In 2001, he moved to the University of Cape Town where he would teach until 2019. While at the University of Cape Town, Garuba published heavily in the fields of Africa and post colonial literature.

Garuba was a professor at the University of Cape Town, with a joint appointment in the English Department and the Centre for African Studies. He was also a member of the Heinemann African Writers Series editorial advisory board. Garuba mainly focused in African and postcolonial literatures. This collection was divided up in three parts, and included personal reflections, historical paradoxes and dialogues.