Irikidzayi Manase teaches in the Department of English at the University
of the Free State, Bloemfontein Campus, South Africa. His areas of
research fall within the broader area of literary cultural geographic
studies of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa and Africa. He has
read papers at both local and international conferences and published
on: imaginaries about and urban youth cultures of Johannesburg, Harare
and South Africa’s Limpopo province; the human condition and mapping of
spaces in South African science fiction and speculative literature;
transnational African migrant experiences; and literatures about the
constitution of senses of self and belonging in relation to the land
issue and crisis conditions in post-2000 Zimbabwe.
