Harry Garuba
Harry Garuba is an author and Professor for African Literature and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Theory und Director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. His main research interests embrace contemporary African art and African Modernity. He published a programmatic essay entitled Animist Materialism: Notes on Reading/Writing African Literature, Culture, and Society (2003; German trans. in: Animismus – Revisionen der Moderne).
As of March 2012