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GRANT CHRISTISON’S 2007 University of KwaZulu-Natal PhD was on Robert Grendon, an Abantu-Batho editor, on whom he has also published a chapter in Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism 1840–1930 (Brill, 2010). He is currently preparing an edition of Robert Grendon’s epic poem Paul Kruger’s Dream and has recently published on reading practices in colonial Natal in English in Africa.

PAUL LANDAU is an associate professor of History at the University of Maryland and a research fellow at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948 (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and The Realm of the Word: Language, Gender and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom (David Philip, 1995).

PETER LIMB is an adjunct associate professor and Africana bibliographer at Michigan State University. His recent books include A. B. Xuma’s Autobiography and Selected Works (VRS, 2012), The ANC’s Early Years (Unisa Press, 2010), Grappling with the Beast (Brill, 2010) and Nelson Mandela: A Biography (Greenwood, 2008).

CHRISTOPHER LOWE is the only scholar to have written a PhD (Yale University, 1998) dealing substantially with the history of Abantu-Batho. He has published on Zulu and Swazi political history and ethnic politics, including in the Radical History Review.

SARAH MKHONZA is African writer-in-residence at Cornell University. She edited Democracy, Transformation, Conflict and Public Policy in Swaziland and, with Ackson Kanduza, Issues in the Economy and Politics of Swaziland since 1968 (OSSREA, 2003) and has published five literary works. She is writing an historical novel on Swazi queens.

SIFISO MXOLISI NDLOVU is executive director of SADET. He has a PhD in History from the University of the Witwatersrand and is author of The Soweto Uprisings: Counter-memories of June 1976 (Ravan Press, 1998), and several chapters in the SADET series, as well as school history textbooks. His research includes pre-colonial history and the history of football, on which he has published in such journals as the South African Historical Journal and History and Theory.

JEFF OPLAND, visiting professor of African Language Literatures in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and visiting professor in the School of Languages, Rhodes University, is an acclaimed scholar specialising in Xhosa literature. His recent works include The Nation’s Bounty: The Xhosa Poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho (Wits University Press, 2007) and editions and translations of the work of Isaac Williams Wauchope (Van Riebeeck Society, 2008) and S. E. K. Mqhayi’s historical and biographical writings (Wits University Press, 2009).

CHRIS SAUNDERS is an emeritus professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He has published on many aspects of Southern African history. His many books include The Making of the South African Past (1988) and (with T. R. H. Davenport), South Africa: A Modern History (2000; new edition forthcoming). He is one of the few to have written on the founder of Abantu-Batho, in an article in the South African Historical Journal (1991).

ROBERT TRENT VINSON is a university associate professor for Teaching Excellence in History at the College of William and Mary. His recent books include The Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa (Ohio University Press, 2012), Crossing the Water: African Americans and South Africa, 1890–1965, with Robert Edgar and David Anthony (forthcoming, Ohio University Press) and Shaka’s Progeny: Zulu Culture and the Making of the Modern Atlantic World with Benedict Carton.