Leo Zeilig has held academic positions at the University of Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of the Western Cape. He has authored books on student politics in Africa, social movements, the African working class, and Patrice Lumumba, and is also a novelist. He has written extensively on African politics and history, including books on working-class struggle and the development of revolutionary movements and biographies on some of Africa’s most important political thinkers and activists. In different ways, each book examines the growth of decolonization, the failures of independence and the development of radical politics on the continent. In all of his writing Leo presents the continent as being at the centre of globalisation.