Chielozona Eze is a Professor and Director of Africana Studies at Carleton College. He is a distinguished fellow at the Emengini Institute. Before his post at Carleton College, he worked as Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, and Extraordinary Professor of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has written extensively on such topics as cosmopolitanism, empathy, human rights, social justice, etc. In addition to many articles published in highly regarded peer-reviewed journals, he is the author of Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa (University of Rochester Press, 2018) and Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination: We, Too, Are Humans (Routledge, 2021). Chielozona Eze is also an established poet. His novella, The Trial of Robert Mugabe, was shortlisted for 2010 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. He is currently finishing a book titled Friendship as Power: Nelson Mandela, Philosophy, and African Multiethnic Democracies.