Makers and Shapers Profile

Details

Name

Mbongiseni Buthelezi

Type

Person

Dates of Existence

c.1980 - present

History

[Source - Henry Fagan for FHYA, 2022: Mbongiseni Buthelezi is an academic specialising in English and Comparative Literature. He obtained an Honours Degree in Drama at the University of Natal and an MA Degree in English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal before completing his PhD at Columbia University. His interest is in understanding how contemporary appeals to 'tradition' work and in the ways the many materials labelled as 'tradition' are able to speak to the past - especially to the yet neglected eras of the past before the advent of European colonialism. Buthelezi joined the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative as a senior researcher in 2014.]

Activity

Type ↑↓	Date ↑↓	Item ↑↓
Writing	October 2020	Translation of Dingiswayo kaJobe, parts I, II, and III (text from James Stuart's, uBaxoxele).
Writing	[before 2012]	Sifuna Umlando Wethu (We Are Looking for Our History): Oral Literature and the Meanings of the Past in Post-Apartheid South Africa