Ruth First was an internationally known anti-apartheid activist who was a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the African National Congress (ANC). In 1982, she was assassinated in Maputo, Mozambique, by a mail bomb sent by the apartheid government.

Christopher J. Lee is Professor of African History and Literature at The Africa Institute, UAE. He is the author of Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives and Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism.