Pierre-Damien MVUYEKURE is a professor of English and African-American literature at the University of Northern Iowa, where, in 2005, he was named the Dr. Philip G. Hubbard Outstanding Educator. A native of Rwanda, he specializes in African and African diaspora literatures. His most recent book is The Dark Heathenism of the American Novelist Ishmael Reed: African Voodoo as Americas Literary HooDoo (Edwin Mellen, 2007).