Lesley Green is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Deputy Director of Environmental Humanities South at the University of Cape Town.

Francis B. Nyamnjoh is Professor of Social Anthropology, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, which he joined in 2009 from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal. He has researched and taught sociology,...

Dionne van Reenen is a Researcher for the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice and Chair of the Language Policy Review Committee at the University of the Free State.

Steven Friedman is Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Rhodes University and the University of Johannesburg. He is a political scientist who has specialized in the study of democracy. He researched and wrote widely on the South African transition to...

Geraldine J Fraser-Moleketi is chairman of Council of the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA); former Special Envoy on Gender of the African Development Bank; former Director of Global Democratic Governance Practice of the United Nations Development...

Professor Sir Hilary Beckles is the Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies. Before assuming this office on May 1, 2015, he served the university as Professor of Economic History, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Undergraduate Studies, and Principal of its Cave...

Bongani Madondo is an essayist and multiple award winning features, profiles and culture writer whose work has appeared in the Sunday Times, New Yorker, New York Times, Marie Claire, Rolling Stone and La Internazionale. The author of three critically acclaimed books,...

Clemencia Rodríguez is Professor in the Department of Media Studies and Production at Temple University (US). In her book titled Fissures in the Mediascape: An International Study of Citizens’ Media (2001), Rodríguez developed her ”citizens’ media theory”, a...

Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory in the Department of Media and communications at LSE. As a sociologist of media and culture, he approaches media and communications from the perspective of the symbolic power that has been...

Nosipho Xakani was born and raised in Bloemfontein. She is a first generation student doing her third year at the University of the Free State (UFS). She started in 2015 and majored in Political Science and Communication Science before changing to an LLB program. She...

Tshiamo is the Chief Editor of IRAWA, the official student newspaper of the University of the Free State. He previously interned at Africa Check and hosted the CUT Parliament current affairs talk show on CUT FM. He is also a freelance writer, poet and university...

Simamkele Dlakavu is a Fallist and has recently completed her Master’s in African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). She has been an active participant in student movements calling for an intersectional decolonial reality in SA, and reflects on...

Gama Mutemeri left journalism to train as a griot. This is his story this month.

Rumbi is a Zimbabwean-born South African-based feminist author. Her writing has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Vela Magazine, and on FeministsSA.com and MyFirstTimeSA.com. She has worked with various South African civil society organisations, including Rape Crisis...

Henry Mitchell is an Oxford and Edinburgh Universities scholar, whose undergraduate degree in History and Economics was “In Search for Greener Pastures: Immigration from Malawi, 1930-1960", while his MSc in African Studies, Centre for African Studies in Edinburgh...

The UFS Student Safety Forum is a student-led safety initiative seeking to solve womxn and LGBTQIA+ issues at the University of the Free State, focusing on safety. This includes assault, whether physical or not, perception of safety, inclusivity of various spaces of...

Molefeng Isaac Riba is currently a Masters Candidate in Communication Studies at the University of Limpopo and is doing Foucauldian research on mental illness conceptualisations. He also lectures undergraduate and honours courses at the University of Limpopo.

Margaret Nyamushamba is a ONE Campaign Research Coordinator. Her work focuses on policy research in the areas of agriculture, gender, education and health. In 2011, Margaret was instrumental in coordinating the establishment of a Disability Forum in Andover, Hampshire...

Prof. Mia Swart coordinates and teaches the LLM programme in international law at the University of Johannesburg. Mia previously worked as Research Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law in London and as Assistant Professor of Public International law and...

Dr Sarah Henkeman is an independent conflict and social justice researcher and practitioner. Prior to, during and after the end of apartheid, she worked for public interest, human rights, community safety and conflict resolution organisations while studying part and...