Department of Political Sciences

Prof Tendayi Sithole

College of Human Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Department: Political Sciences
Professor
Tel: 012 429 6006
E-mail: sitholet@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Literature and Philosophy (UNISA, 2014)

Currently teaching

  • APC3702: The Politics of East Africa
  • APC4801: African Political Thought

Field of Specialisation

  • Political theory
  • Black radical thought
  • Settler colonialism
  • Africana existential phenomenology
  • Music
  • Biography
  • Black aesthetics

Books

Poetry

  • The Life and Music of Zimontology (East London: Poetry Printery, 2018)

Scholarly

  • Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016)
  • The Black Register (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020)
  • Mabogo P. More: Philosophical Anthropology in Azania (New York and London: Rowman and Littlefied International, 2022)
  • Refiguring in Black (Cambridge: Polity, 2023)
  • The Letter in Black Radical Thought (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023)
  • Black X: Liberatory Thought in Azania (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2024)

  • Hortense J. Spillers: Subject, Abject, and Insurgent in Black Radical Thought (New York and London: Rowman and Littlefied International, 2024)

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • JIAS 2022 Writing Fellows, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg. Senior Reserach Fellow, Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation, University of Jonahhesburg
  • Founding member of Africa Decolonial Research Network (ADERN), Pretoria, South Africa.

Projects

  • “Meditations in Black.”