About the authors e late Ibrahim Kaduma established the in uential Institute for Development Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam, subsequently became the Vice Chancellor of that University and Foreign Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania. He published extensively on education, politics and the international relations of his country. Neo Simutanyi is a political economist and Director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue in Lusaka, Zambia. His research interests include economic history, the political-economy of the Southern Africa Development Community(SADC) and Africa in the global economy. Nelson Ocuane is the Managing Director of NOC Consulting, and former Chief Executive O cer of the National Oil Company in Maputo, Mozambique. Isabel Maria Casimiro works in the Centre of African Studies at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique. She is one of the pre-eminent sociologists and feminist scholars in Mozambique. José A. da Conceição Chichava has a PhD in Economics and is Assistant Professor and Deputy Dean for Post-Graduation Courses in the Faculty of Economics at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique. Lloyd Sachikonye researches and lectures on Development Studies at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare. He is widely travelled and has published numerous scholarly papers and research reports. Patricia McFadden is a distinguished radical ecological feminist and critical scholar with an impressive publication and research record. Over many decades she has de ned the conversation around feminism and feminist scholarship in southern Africa. She leads a modest life of self-reliance on a piece of land near Mbabane, ESwatini.