Leo Zeilig is a writer and researcher. 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. Zeilig is an editor of the Review of African Political Economy, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Research Associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg , South Africa. His critically acclaimed novel Eddie the Kid won the Creative Work Prize at the University of the Western Cape.