Thabolwethu is uMuntu who is an Emerging Decolonial Scholar, who holds a BSocSc honours degree, specialising in Sociology from the University of Cape Town. His scholarship seeks to engage and bear witness to Black life as it transpires on the margins. Beyond academic engagements, Thabolwethu is a creative writer, storyteller, spoken word poet (imbongi) and an archivist of mundane human experiences.

Current Research Project

Thabolwethu’s research seeks to unearth what he has pre-emptively termed ‘post-patriarchal’ masculinities. By interrogating the lives of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe and Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, he endeavours to show how Black men craft ‘post-patriarchal’ masculinities in times of ‘socio-political reckoning’. In all this he seeks to salvage these Black men from the dehumanising icon-messiah and rebel status thus moving each of them from the Man to Umuntu.

Supervisors: Dr Veeran Naicker and Prof Kopano Ratele

Email: 25075322@sun.ac.za

Recent Publications:

Article:

Maphosa, T. T., & Makama, R. (2024). From colonial time to decolonial temporalities. British Journal of Social Psychology, (64)2, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12817