Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies
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2023 - Present
African & African American Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Black South African Intellectuals and the Question of Colonial Modernity
Chapter · January 1, 2025 Newspapers were essential to African engagements with the problem of colonial modernity in South Africa. This chapter focuses on Tiyo Soga’s writings in Indaba and how they inflected the discourse of the nation with an assemblage of African experiences. No ... Full text CiteSouth 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 CiteArchives 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 CiteEducation
University of Pennsylvania ·
2015
Ph.D.