David Johnson is Professor of Literature in the Department of English at The Open University. He is the author of Shakespeare and South Africa (Oxford UP, 1996), Imagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature and the South African Nation (Edinburgh University/ UCT Press, 2012) and Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa: Literature between Critique and Utopia (Edinburgh University/ UCT Press, 2019); the co-editor of A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (Edinburgh UP, 2008), and the co-editor of The Book in Africa: Critical Debates (Palgrave, 2015). He is General Editor of the Edinburgh UP series Key Texts in Anti-Colonial Thought.