[Source - Henry Fagan for FHYA, 2022: Mbongeni Malaba is a Professor of English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Malaba earned an Honours Degree in English at the University of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) before obtaining a PhD at the University of York. Malaba was based at the University of Zimbabwe for eighteen years. He later joined the University of Namibia before joining University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2009.]