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Thabisani Ndlovu

South Africa
Literary and Identity Studies
Walter Sisulu University
Visiting scholar:
  • 2019 First Semester
  • 2020 Second Semester

Involved in these STIAS projects

Text, Human Rights and pandemics: Being human in times of contagion

Partly prompted by and responding to the effects of Covid-19, our project takes a long-shot view of text, contagion, and ideas of the rights-bearing human over time. We focalise contagion not only for...
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Reading black middle-classness

For this project I am reading the burgeoning publication of essays that tackle black middle-classness and related aspects such as masculinities, femininities and race – indeed, intersections of these....
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The new middle class in Africa in comparative perspective

Comparative perspectives from the global south can tell us much about the meteoric rise of the new middle class in Africa. They suggest that we should be wary of purely quantitative/objective characterisations,...
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Fellows' seminars

Examining what it means to be human in times of contagion – Fellows’ seminar by Irikidzayi Manase, Robert Muponde, Thabisani Ndlovu and Cheryl Stobie

24 November 2020
Fellows' seminars

Approaching a shared topic from different angles: studying the new middle classes in southern Africa – Fellows’ seminar by Maxim Bolt, Claudia Gastrow and Preben Kaarsholm

6 May 2019
Fellows' seminars,  STIAS theme

Examining the new middle class in Africa – Fellows’ seminar by Deborah James, Carola Lentz, Isidore Lobnibe and Thabisani Ndlovu

15 April 2019
 

Related publications

Journal Article

Pandemic Literatures and Being Human in Times of Mass Infection and Catastrophe: Some African Perspectives

Manase, Irikidzayi and Thabisani Ndlovu. 2022. Pandemic Literatures and Being Human in Times of Mass Infection and Catastrophe: Some African Perspectives. Journal of Literary Studies, 38(1).  https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/jls/issue/archive

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Playing with anxiety: black middle-class masculinities in the humorous works of Fred Khumalo and Ndumiso Ngcobo

Ndlovu, Thabisani and Increment Andile Dlulani. 2020. Playing with anxiety: black middle-class masculinities in the humorous works of Fred Khumalo and Ndumiso Ngcobo. African Identities, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2020.1805297

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Shuttling between the suburbs and the township: the new black middle class(es) negotiating class and post-apartheid blackness in South Africa

Ndlovu, Thabisani. 2020. Shuttling between the suburbs and the township: the new black middle class(es) negotiating class and post-apartheid blackness in South Africa. Africa, 90(3), 568–586. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000197202000008X

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