Jeff Opland

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 Xhos 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).