Benita Sampedro Vizcaya is Associate Professor of Colonial Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Hofstra University. Her research interest focuses on issues of Spanish colonialism in both Africa and Latin America, specifically on processes of decolonization and postcolonial legacies. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on empire, exile, colonial discourse and resistance, most recently on topics relating to Equatorial Guinea, the only African state in which Spanish remains the official language. She is currently working on a book manuscript provisionally entitled Spanish Colonialism, African Decolonizations, and the Politics of Place, intended to draw the attention of a wide and worldly audience to a country whose political situation, economic inequities and cultural and intellectual activity have largely passed below the radar of academia and media. Her intellectual agenda is geared towards a redefinition of Afro-European relations from a colonial/postcolonial perspective, a re-conception of the way we teach, formulate, and generate knowledge and culture from a Romance Languages and Literatures perspective, and a revisiting of links between colonial Africa and colonial Latin America beyond the frame of the different imperial Atlantic networks.