KARIN BARBER Senior Lecturer , Centre for West African Studies, University of Birmingham HOWARD ERSKINE-HILL Professor of Literary History, Cambridge SUSAN FITZMAURICE Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University ANDREW GURR Professor of English, University of Reading WILSON HARRIS has published a distinguished series of novels, often set in Guyana, since 1960 JOHN KINSELLA the leading Australian poet of his generation and has won numerous awards and prizes JAVED MAJEED Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, London KIRSTEN MALMKJAER Research Lecturer, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge C. D. NARASIMHAIAH was Professor of English, Mysore and is director of the Dhvanyaloka Study Centre, Mysore BEN OKRI won the Booker Prize with The Famished Road in 1991 DAVID RICHARDS Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Leeds WOLE SOYINKA won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986