Author Biography
James Randolph Vigne, was an Anti Apartheid activist, and a founder of the African Resistance Movement. He returned to South Africa in 1990, where he continued to research. In 2010 he was a recipient of the Order of Luthuli in Silver. James Currey worked for Oxford University Press and Heinemann and where with Chinua Achebe as adviser on the first 100 titles, he published 270 titles in the African Writers Series. With his wife Clare he established, in 1985, the James Currey imprint as the outstanding list in African Studies.