Michael Wolfers is a British-born writer, translator and academic. He is the author of books on Angola and on politics in post-independence Africa and has taught as a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Juba, Sudan. He was close to Thomas Hodgkin from 1966 to 1982 and for the Hodgkin biography retraced many of the paths trodden by Hodgkin in Britain and around the world. He drew on an immense store of unpublished material in the Hodgkin family papers.Wolfers is an established literary and political translator from French and from Portuguese, with a special interest in Lusophone and Francophone Africa. His work has taken him to more than seventy of the world's countries, half of them in Africa.