Dr. Uhuru Phalafala (PhD, University of Cape Town) is a lecturer in the English department at Stellenbosch University. She is the 2018 University of Michigan African Presidential Scholar, the 2019 African Humanities Program fellow, and 2021 Department of Higher Education and Technology’s Future Professors Program fellow. Her research interests are in critical race studies, material and expressive cultures, black radical traditions, black internationalism, translation, and decoloniality. Her forthcoming publications are a poetry collection titled Mine Mine Mine; the collected poetry of the former South African national poet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile; and a monograph that reframes often unseen and unaccounted-for Black women as bedrocks of Black revolutionary thought. She heads a Mellon-funded research project ‘Recovering Subterranean Archives’, which investigates South African culture in exile, with the view to repatriate and republish it. Through this project she republished the anthology of poetry from 1981, Malibongwe, by ANC women in exile. She is the co-editor of Safundi Special Issue on “Cultural Solidarities: Apartheid and itineraries of expressive culture”, and part of the research group ‘World Literatures: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics’, based at Stockholm University.

E-mail: uphalafala@sun.ac.za Call: +27 21 808 2046