Dr Ranka Primorac has degrees from the universities of Zagreb, Zimbabwe and Nottingham Trent and has taught Africa-related courses in several institutions of higher learning in Britain, including the University of Cambridge. Her research interests are in the African postcolony, cultural constructions of identity and the social functioning of literary fictions. She has co-edited Zimbabwe in Crisis: The International Response and the Space of Silence (Routledge, 2006) and authored The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe (I. B. Tauris, 2006).