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Associate Professor
Name: Siseko H. Kumalo
Location: B-Ring 220 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education, Faculty of Education Staff Members
Contact Details:
Tel: 011 559 3167
Email: sisekok@uj.ac.za
About Prof Siseko H. Kumalo
Professor Siseko H. Kumalo is a political theorist and higher education scholar whose work sits at the intersection of African philosophy, decolonial critique, and feminist theory. His scholarship is anchored in a deep commitment to transforming the politics of knowledge—challenging exclusionary traditions, expanding intellectual horizons, and reimagining the university as a space of liberation.
He served as the founding editor of the Journal of Decolonising Disciplines and is the visionary behind the Black Archive Project—a groundbreaking initiative that surfaces marginalised epistemic traditions and cultivates new generations of critical thinkers. His ultimate ambition is to endow a Chair in the Black Archive, ensuring the long-term institutional future of this work.
Currently an Associate Professor at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies at the University of Johannesburg, Professor Kumalo contributes to curriculum policy, higher education transformation, and public discourse on decolonisation. He has published widely in leading journals such as Theoria, CriSTaL, and the Sage Handbook of African Philosophy, and has presented his work on global stages, including the United Nations Summit for the Future and the Nishan World Forum.
Selected Publications
| 2024 | Triomf – Examining the strangeness of South African Democracy. Stilet: Tydskrif van die Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 36(2): 21—37. |
| 2024 | Pedagogic Obligations toward a Decolonial and Contextually Responsive Approach to Teaching Philosophy in South Africa. Journal of Philosophy of Education: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhae028. |
| 2023 | Can Iqaba Possess Ontological Legitimacy? Critical Philosophy of Race, 11(2): 378—407. |
| 2022 | Amqaba nama Gqobhoka? Working through Colonial Derision of Black Ontology. Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 69(173): 1—28. |
| 2020 | Confronting the complexities of decolonising curricula and pedagogy in higher education. Third World Thematics, 5(1&2): 1-18. |
| 2020 | Khawuleza – An Instantiation of the Black Archive. Imbizo, 11(2): 1-21. |
| 2020 | Curriculating from the Black Archive – Marginality as Novelty. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 8(1): 111-132. |