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
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 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 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 CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
University of Pennsylvania ·
2015
Ph.D.