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Khwezi Mkhize

Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies
African & African American Studies

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies · 2023 - Present African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications


South Africa and the Politics of Coevality

Journal Article Scrutiny2 · January 2, 2019 The argument that I make in this article is that in leaving the prison house of apartheid, South Africa generated exclusive categories of belonging (framed around multiracial nationalism and citizenship) at the expense of a pan-African politics. By reading ... Full text Cite

Archives of empire

Journal Article Social Dynamics · January 1, 2019 South Africa has, in recent years, been witnessing the unraveling of narratives of collective being and becoming that are hinged around Apartheid as the singular institution of power to be overcome. In this paper I argue that while Apartheid has provided o ... Full text Cite

‘To see us as we see ourselves’: John Tengo Jabavu and the politics of the black periodical

Journal Article Journal of Southern African Studies · May 4, 2018 John Tengo Jabavu’s Imvo Zabantsundu is recognised as the first black periodical in South Africa. As with many of his generation of mission-educated intellectuals, Jabavu’s endeavours in print culture were set against a milieu of intensified conquest and t ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Pennsylvania · 2015 Ph.D.