Harry GARUBA

migrating to South Africa to teach in the English Department at the University of Zululand. In 1988, he edited the collection Voices from the Fringe: An ANA Anthology of New Nigerian Poetry. In 2001, he moved to the University of Cape Town, where he taught in the African Studies and English departments until 2019, and published widely in the fields of African and postcolonial literature.Meanwhile, in 2017, he published a second collection of his own poetry, Animist Chants and Memorials. In addition to being an author and poet, Mr Garuba was a member of the editorial advisory board of the Heinemann African Writers Series and one of the editors of the journal Postcolonial Text. He also served as acting dean of the Faculty of Humanities from February to December 2017, and held research fellowships at the University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University and Emory University. In late 2019, he wrote a blurb about the emphemerality of life and the permanence of art in Wreaths for a Wayfarer, an anthology of poems in honour of late Nigeria scholar, Pius Adesanmi.