Qualifications

• PhD History (University of California, 2004)
• MA History (Clark Atlanta University, 2000)
• BA Honours, History and Education (UNISA, 1998)
• BA History and Education (UNISA, 1996)
• Teachers’ Diploma, History and Education (Northwest University, 1990).

Fields of academic interests

• African diaspora
• African American history
• Decolonization of Education
• Religion
• Slavery
• Transformation in Higher Education

Field of Specialisation

• 19th century  US History
• The slave trade and slavery
• Slave culture
• 19th and 20th century African history

Journal articles

• “A Question of Origins: The Social and Cultural Roots of African American Cultures.”  Journal of African American History (Special issue) Volume 1, no. 4, (Fall 2006): 401-412.
•  “How to Promote Peace in South Africa," Messenger, 1994. 
• “Revisiting modes of enslavement: the role of raiding, kidnapping, and wars in the European Slave Trade.” Journal of African Identities, Volume 16 (3) 2018, pp. 349-364.
• “Where are our heroes and ancestors:” Steve Biko’s conceptions of education and African culture in Rhodes Must Fall, Fees Must Fall and the Transformation of Universities.”  Journal of African Identities, Volume 17 (1),  2019: pp. 64-79.
• “Silencing Evidence: Reflections on the scholarship of African involvement in the European Slave Trade.” African Historical Review, Volume 51(2), 2020: pp. 1-16
• Book reviews: West Africa before the colonial era: A History to 1850, Basil Davidson: London and New York: Routledge, 2014.  257 pp: ISBN: 13: 978-0-582-31853-3 (PBK), Contree (78): 2017: pp. 125-129
• Book review: The Road to Soweto: Resistance and the uprising of 16 June 1976, Julian Brown: Jacana Media, 2016.Xi+204 pp: ISBN: 978-1-4314-2400-9, African Historical Review, volume 49 (1), 2017: pp. 106-110
• Book review: The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America’s Dutch-owned slaves, Jeroen Dewulf:  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017.  ISBN: 9781496808813. African Historical Review, volume 51 (1), 2019: pp. 89-91

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

2015 to date: Senior Lecturer Unisa Department of History

2004-2014:  Visiting Assistant Professor and head  African and African American studies, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

2000-2004: Teacher Assistant, University of California  Riverside,  Riverside, California, USA.

1985—1987; 1991-1998: High School Teacher

Member of South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT)

University Capacity Development Program (UCDP) Award: Language in Transformation

 (2021-2023) 

Excellence in Tuition Award: Transformation in Teaching and Learning at

College level (2019)

Excellence in Tuition Award in the Category of Transformation in Teaching and Learning

at an institutional level  (2019).

Featured in Unisa Focus magazine for Transformation in Teaching and Learning [2019\

University of California Research Humanities Grant [2003]

University of California Riverside  Assistant Teacher Award [2003]

University of California Riverside Department of History Summer Fellowship Award [2002]

Canadian Carmen Brock Graduate School Fellowship [2000]

UCR Graduate School Exchange Visitor Program Fellowship [2000-2004]

Fulbright scholarship Award [1998-2000]

The Best Story Teller Award [1998]

Projects

• A Circle of Culture: Slave Youth and the Ringshout in the American South.
• Slave Culture at the Cape and American South: A Comparative Analysis.
• Ubuntu and the African liberation struggle.
• “Lessons Across Borders:” The best practices, challenges, and opportunities from other countries to enhance teaching and learning in rural South African schools in the context of COVID-19.
•  “The death of distance:”  Long-distance learning and the challenges of rurality and rural education in the context of COVID-19.
•  “Hugging and kissing is something of the past:”  Social distancing and effective learning in the context of Covid 19. 

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